Despite patient satisfaction with NPs' style of care, nurses have been critical of NPs acting as "mini-docs," while physicians have been threatened by NP encroachment on MD practice. Balancing ...

Context: Nurse practitioners (NPs) are called to embrace caring as the focus of their own being and nursing identity. What distinguishes the care of NPs is 2-fold. First, it is their willingness ...

But nurses are scientists. They can earn Ph.Ds., lead clinical trials, and study problems that textbooks overlook: how a family’s silence signals despair, how to deliver mental health care in ...