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 ...

Advanced Practice Nurses with a Flight Specialty utilize ground and aeromedical transport services to provide high quality acute, critical and emergent care to patients. While inter-facility transfers ...

Sammivik's unique approach has fostered partnerships with leading educational and health organizations as well as several of ...

Challenges Of Increasing Primary Care NP Supply Nursing educators report that their inability to recruit enough clinical preceptors is the major factor constraining enrollment growth. 11, 13 ...

In response to the May 11 op-ed "National Nurses Week is time to celebrate those who take care of community." Two things can be true at the same time. It’s not often that I agree with HCA ...

Independence Blue Cross is now accepting nominations for its 2025 Celebrate Caring campaign, which highlights extraordinary nurses in the region. Members of the community can help IBX recognize ...

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 ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Annual Conference anticipates over 5,500 participants in New Orleans. Getty image. NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The American Association of ...

We consider the implications of different staffing models for the work and education of clinicians in nursing, social work, and medicine, as well as other health care staffing. Data were from the ...

Objectives Nurses are generally present, and often influential, in supporting patient and family acceptance of medical futility and in assisting doctors in negotiating referral to palliative care. Yet ...