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The Nurse Practitioner: A Beacon of Hope in a Primary Care Crisis

Co-authored by Dr. Debra M. G. Murray. Nov. 10-16 is Nurse Practitioner Week; the theme for this year is “Get Involved.” As board certified nurse practitioners, getting involved means sharing ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat

Nurse practitioners filling primary care roles

As the need for efficient healthcare increases daily, nurse practitioners are in high demand and physicians are learning to share their territory. Although physicians have around four times more ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Nurse Practitioners Play an Increasing Role in Primary Care

Between 2008 and 2016, primary care providers increasingly relied on nurse practitioners amidst a shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas. With approximately 234,000 nurse practitioners ...
Reuters

Nurse practitioners could be poised to fill primary care gap

(Reuters Health) - With the U.S. lurching toward a severe shortage of primary care physicians, nurse practitioners may be poised to fill the void - but only if more can be convinced to live in ...
News Medical

The lure of specialty medicine pulls nurse practitioners from primary care

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these "NPs" often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...
Tennessean

Nurse practitioners can't solve primary care physician shortage | Opinion

Dr. Carmen Kavali and Dr. Vidya Bansel are members of Physicians for Patient Protection. On Feb. 5, state Rep. Bob Ramsey and Sen. Jon Lundberg introduced controversial legislation (HB 2203/SB 2110) ...
CBS News

Nurse practitioners helped fill a shortage in primary care, but they're increasingly headed to specialties

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these "NPs" often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...
Kaleido Scope

Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Graduates of the DNP Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Specialty are educated to care for adolescents and young adults to older adults and their primary care needs including ...
Kaleido Scope

Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Graduates of the DNP Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-PC) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice in a variety of settings with populations of infants, children and ...
Connecticut Post

Nurse practitioners filling the primary care gap

Alison McGrory-Watson, a private cook who lives in Deep River, had serious medical problems, including Hepatitis C and post-traumatic stress disorder, when she was assigned Nichole Mitchell as her ...
Case Western Reserve University

Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (PCPNP) are advanced degree nurses who provide primary health care for children from infancy to 21 years of age, including physical, psychosocial and family ...