Acute care happens when an adult or elderly person needs short term care in a hospital or nursing home due to an illness like pneumonia, which can cause more complications. It’s called the Adult ...

On Feb. 29, the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors approved a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at North Carolina A&T State University. The degree is the newest addition to ...

Completing an online nurse practitioner program puts current registered nurses (RNs) on track to a higher-paying career. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice nurses who focus their careers ...

In the U.S., 77% of counties with a shortage of mental healthcare providers and universities have been drawing upon psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner programs to fill that gap, NC Health ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

“Without affordable pathways to master’s and doctoral education, nursing schools will face declining enrollment and worsening ...