She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, ...

A pediatric nurse who worked tenaciously to expand access to health services, Loretta Ford helped to transform the way millions of Americans receive health care.

As a nurse practitioner with extensive clinical, academic and advocacy experience, I must address several misconceptions in Dr. Richard Feldman’s Jan. 29 piece (“Physicians still best option for ...

Budget Proposal, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced a policy to allow nurse practitioners to not need physician supervision to ...

Eugene Lucas, DNP, PMHNP-BC, is an associate professor who coordinates the distance education Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at Wilkes University and is a board-certified ...

So Ford, who died Jan. 22 at the age of 104, charted a stealth approach. Rather than confronting or challenging physicians, she teamed up with one of them, Henry K. Silver, a pedi ...

This local nurse practitioner experienced the challenges in securing a preceptorship firsthand before she launched a startup ...

Silver, a pediatrician at the University of Colorado, she started a novel program in 1965 providing advanced training to a handful of registered nurses who became the first nurse practitioners.

Forbes Advisor’s education editors are committed to ... educational programs and need to obtain licensure to practice. Nurse practitioners have a background in nursing and take a patient-focused ...

If you’re passionate about health care and want to make a difference in patients’ lives, consider becoming a nurse ...

It is time every state dropped government paternalism and granted advanced practice registered nurses full practicing authority.

Fueled by a transformative gift from Leonard A. Lauder, this initiative is expanding nurse practitioner training and addressing health disparities. The program equips students from all over the ...