Objectives To examine patient consultation preferences for seeing or speaking to a general practitioner (GP) or nurse; to estimate associations between patient-reported experiences and the type of ...

Family Nurse Practitioner Family nurse practitioners are advanced practice nurses who offer care, promote health, and treat disease in patients ranging from children to elders. They provide ...

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 ...

As for nurse practitioners, productivity comprises additional factors which for the most part can be a challenge to measure: time devoted to productive activities, efficiency of that time ...

Nurse practitioners are bridging the gap in geriatric care as the demand for senior health services increases and the number of trained geriatricians plummets.

“One of the things I’m most proud of is the role of nurse practitioners,” she said. “We step into places where other providers may not, and geriatrics is a prime example of that.” Nurse practitioners ...