Nurse practitioners (NPs) increasingly are providing more primary care to nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and a recent study examined the potential impact ...

Specially trained nurse practitioners help nursing homes improve the resident transfer process and reduce errors, recently published research shows. The findings come from the OPTIMISTIC project at ...

Adding a nurse practitioner to a busy hospital staff can decrease unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits, according to a new study. Researchers found that the nurse practitioner reduced ED ...

Older adults with chronic conditions who seek care where nurse practitioners report high levels of burnout are more likely to be hospitalized or seek care at an emergency department, according to a ...

Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients -- but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests. Nurse ...

The use of non-physician advanced practitioners, especially in primary care, has been touted as a solution to filling looming physician shortages, which are only expected to get worse as the decade ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Transfers of nursing home residents to and from the hospital frequently expose these frail, older adults to medication errors and poor follow-up care resulting in near or serious harm ...

States that allow nurse practitioners full practice authority find that doing so might encourage Black Medicare beneficiaries to use healthcare services more often, according to a study in Policy, ...

Nurse practitioners have dramatically increased their presence as the go-to primary care providers in rural America thanks in part to regulatory changes that allow patients to more easily see these ...

Akron Children's and UA are working together to bring more pediatric nurse practitioners to the region. Here's why that matters: ...

Graduates of the DNP Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Specialty are educated to care for individuals and families across the lifespan, lead quality improvement initiatives and translate evidence into ...