As of 2022, there were more than 355,000 nurse practitioners licensed in the United States alone. These highly skilled professionals are an indispensable part of our health care system, providing a ...

Nurse practitioners and health advocates gathered at Misericordia University on Tuesday to call on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass Senate Bill 25, a bill that would grant nurse practitioners ...

Hofford is a family physician living in Roanoke. For the past 22 years I have been involved in studying Virginia's health work-force needs and access to health care through various venues -- the ...

Nurse practitioners are not trying to replace doctors — they’re trying to meet patients’ needs, wherever those patients are, an expert said.