Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper ...

Due to the lack of doctors in rural areas, nurse practitioners have, in recent years, been filling the gap in those areas as licensed primary healthcare providers. Nurse practitioners can choose a ...

The education of nurse practitioners is evolving in response to the increasing complexity of patient care. Contemporary clinical education models focus on competency-based training, which integrates ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing is a national leader in Family Nurse Practitioner education through both specialty tracks offered in the Master of Science in Nursing and ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges which ...

Graduates of the DNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Specialty provide mental health care in a variety of primary care settings for patients across the lifespan. Psychiatric ...

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 ...

Cindy Weston, founding dean for the College of Nursing at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, poses for a photo at the Carl E. Everett Education & Administration ...

Over time, the public has begun increasingly recognizing and embracing nurse practitioners as healthcare providers. “I think we’ve come a long way,” said Ulrike Muench, PhD, MSN, an associate ...

Kansas's governor has allowed a nursing education bill to become law without her signature.