“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the saying goes. Yet high-quality preventive care is out of reach for ...

By Jariel Arvin, KFF Health News On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, ...

In this article, we’ll take a look at the roles that are making the biggest impact in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.

Studies show that the average primary care exam runs just 18 minutes long. Simply put, the status quo is broken. Over the ...

The history of nurse practitioners, their efforts to achieve provider status, and lessons learned from their activism are discussed. The nurse practitioner profession arose out of a need to meet a ...

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number ...

Medicare covers home health skilled nursing care that is part-time or intermittent, doctor-prescribed and arranged by a Medicare-certified home health agency. The median hourly wage for home-health ...

Where Does Oklahoma Stand? According to the Oklahoma Legislature, this new law aligns Oklahoma with 27 other states and Washington, D.C., that already grant nurse practitioners full practice ...