Nurse: The kind of nurse you meet depends on the size of your doctor’s office and its specialty. A licensed practical nurse (LPN) has earned a diploma or certificate. An LPN typically does basic ...

Attrition, hiring freezes, and fears of layoffs have medical staff at VA hospitals across the country worried.

Reasons to See a Registered Nurse. When you go to any medical facility, like a doctor’s office or hospital, a registered nurse is usually the first person who talks to you in an exam room.

There are still far more doctors in the U.S. than advanced practice registered nurses — 756,800 compared with 240,700 nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives and nurse practitioners in 2018 ...

In a recent letter to the editor, a Victoria physician proposed that doctors “would benefit from being able to have … office nurses,” paid by the health system, thus making it economic to ...

What’s the difference between a nurse and a doctor? Fifty years ago this question would have been easy to answer. With few exceptions, nurses were women and doctors men; doctors had many more ...