Nurse practitioners are health care providers who focus on disease prevention and better health in a range of acute, primary care, and specialty settings.

Nurse practitioners are a type of advanced-practice registered nurse. They are registered nurses who have also obtained a postgraduate nursing degree, typically a master's. So-called scope-of ...

What Is a Nurse Practitioner? Nurse practitioners, also known as advanced practice registered nurses, are registered nurses with additional education and clinical training.

The Senate introduced the ICAN Act, legislation to remove barriers to practice for nurse practitioners and improving access to care for patients. Sen. Jeff Merkley & Sen. Cynthia Lummis introduced ...

A bipartisan group of North Carolina state lawmakers is trying again to expand the role of advanced practice nurses – a proposal closely tied to efforts to expand Medicaid.

Advanced practice nurses have been trying to gain more independence from physicians for decades, but the legislative obstacles are high.