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 ...

They should attract newcomers who see a future for themselves in caring for others. But better treatment, opportunities and contracts for today’s nurses, who’ve been on the front lines of a ...

Nurse and caretaker consoling an elderly lady in retirement at nursing home (Green Shoot Media photo) Nurses face unique stressors, including long shifts, high patient volumes and emotionally ...

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 ...

Practice self-care to balance out long hours of stress and complex situations. Nurses are involved with so much of what happens in the health care system that burnout might seem inevitable.

Caring for seriously ill patients needing round-the-clock attention during the pandemic has added layers of commitment. Gena Oppenheim, a nurse in the intensive care unit of Providence Saint John ...

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 ...