Nurses at Three Rivers Beacon Health in Three Rivers, Michigan, are asking for better wages, better health insurance and a cap to how many extra hours nurses have to work, Provided by Beacon Health ...

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

Nurse practitioners are increasingly filling the gap in geriatric care as the senior population rises and the number of geriatricians declines, KFF Health News reported June 18.

Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. They are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes ...

Johnson, for example, has advanced training in gerontology. “If we have a geriatrician shortage, then hiring more nurse practitioners trained in geriatrics is an ideal solution,” Wagner said, “but ...

FLORENCE — As a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, I am astounded by and deeply worried about the impact that social media can have on our youth. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, 95 percent of ...

Every evening, nurse practitioner (NP) Arnold Facklam arrives at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia, an hour before his two physician counterparts. As an NP nocturnist, a ...

“Then you become a nurse practitioner and all of a sudden, your responsibility shifts.” Marcoux, who has been a pediatric nurse practitioner for 30 years, remembers making that shift.

Objectives Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (NPs/PAs) increasingly practice in emergency departments (EDs), yet limited research has compared their practice patterns with those of ...

An Anchorage jury on Friday convicted Kris Rhodes Kile, a former nurse practitioner, of 12 felonies related to dispensing powerful opioids to people without a justifiable medical need. The verdict ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As health care needs continue to climb across New Mexico, nurse practitioners are stepping up to fill the gap. Nurse practitioners, or NPs, are advanced practice nurses who ...

The nursing profession has been exceptionally well represented in the King's Birthday 2025 Honours List, with several distinguished practitioners recognised for their outstanding contributions to ...