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Completing an online nurse practitioner program puts current registered nurses (RNs) on track to a higher-paying career. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice nurses who focus their careers ...

According to the American Psychological Association, a large number of visits to primary care providers stem from mental health conditions or crises. Research also suggests that 70% of mental health ...

Black, Latin American, and other underrepresented groups continue to receive inadequate representation among students and faculty at US neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) training programs, reports a ...

Arjun Gokhale (center), a student in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner specialty at UCSF, and psychiatric nurse practitioner Sherri Borden (right) meet with a client at Citywide Focus ...

AllCampus, a leading higher education strategic partner helping with top universities and employers to solve their biggest academic program and workplace benefit challenges, today announced its ...

Smiling mid adult female doctor gives good news to a patient during a telemedicine appointment. Training NP students in telepsychiatry should be implemented before entry into clinical practice to ...

A residency program beginning next fall in Yakima will provide family nurse practitioners with the skills they need to care for underserved populations. Yakima Neighborhood Health Services is building ...

Some nurses and physicians opposed the nurse practitioner model. Certain nursing leaders believed that nurse practitioners were no longer practicing nursing, that the title was "ambiguous and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The University of Indianapolis is launching the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program this fall to address the growing demand for acute care nurse practitioners ...