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 ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONROE, MI — Laura Pashaian and Melissa Champagne are area nurses studying to become nurse practitioners. When they started their ...

The patient at the clinic was in his 40s and had lost both his legs to Type 1 diabetes. He had mental health and substance abuse problems and was taking large amounts of opioids to manage pain. He was ...

Year after year, states consider legislation that expands what nurse practitioners (NPs) are allowed to do in the nation’s exam rooms, clinics, emergency departments, and other settings without any ...

Black, Latin American, and other underrepresented groups continue to receive inadequate representation among students and faculty at US neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) training programs, reports a ...

(InvestigateTV) - Rayne Thoman had watched the 1980s thriller “Fatal Attraction” before. But this time she needed to write a college essay about Glenn Close’s character, a person who was struggling ...

Arjun Gokhale (center), a student in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner specialty at UCSF, and psychiatric nurse practitioner Sherri Borden (right) meet with a client at Citywide Focus ...

Some nurses and physicians opposed the nurse practitioner model. Certain nursing leaders believed that nurse practitioners were no longer practicing nursing, that the title was "ambiguous and ...

The patient at the clinic was in his 40s and had lost both his legs to Type 1 diabetes. He had mental health and substance abuse problems and was taking large amounts of opioids to manage pain. He was ...