A doctor discusses a medical report with nurses in a hospital hallway. Amid a critical shortage of physicians throughout the U.S. and an increase in the number of nurse practitioners with doctorates, ...

We searched for studies that compared care delivered by a nurse instead of a doctor in hospital settings. We included studies that examined patient outcomes (death, patient safety events, clinical ...

Nurses remained the most trusted profession in the U.S., while medical doctors dropped to the fifth spot, according to Gallup's 2023 Honesty and Ethics poll. Out of 23 professions, 78% of surveyed ...

Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new Cochrane ...

The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens committee holds a hearing on S2996, which would eliminate certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses. The hearing was held at the ...

Arlene Wright is a doctor, but she doesn’t want people to call her one. “I usually tell my patients ‘your majesty’ or ‘your highness’ is fine,” she said. Wright has been a nurse for more than 20 years ...