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For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

The primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...

Nurse practitioners are increasingly meeting primary care demands in underserved areas and are more likely to deliver structural capabilities related to chronic disease management. Objectives: To ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Despite the advantages of NPs in rural areas, barriers to practice remain. Editor’s note: This article appeared in the July-September 2023 edition of HealthLeaders magazine. With more than 100 million ...

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...

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There are many types of physicians and care providers at University of Utah Health, but the doctor that every patient should have is a primary care provider (PCP). A primary care provider could be: a ...

The mission of the Birmingham VA Health Care System (BVAHCS) and the University of Alabama School of Nursing (UABSON) Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency (PC-NPR) is to enhance the competencies ...

Graduates of the DNP Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-PC) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice in a variety of settings with populations of infants, children and ...