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 ...

October 4, 2023 - According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nurse practitioners deliver "high quality health care in more than 1 billion patient visits each year," and as of ...

Nurses serve as the heart of our healthcare system. You can honor us during National Nurses Week 2025 through May 12. But honoring nurses requires more than flowers and thank-you cards. It requires ...

One in four health visits in the U.S. are now provided by non-physicians, as a growing number of nurse practitioners fill in critical health care gaps. But nurse practitioners say their work is ...

High workloads, time constraints, misalignment of financial incentives and individuals’ health literacy are among the chief roadblocks for hospitals’ delivery of high-quality care to socially ...

There are staffing shortages up and down the caregiver ladder, across the entire healthcare ecosystem. These shortages are perhaps most acutely felt among nurses, who provide so much of the care ...