Nurse practitioners can provide the same quality of care as physicians, and states can help alleviate the physician shortage by increasing NPs’ scope of care, according to a recent National Governors ...

Nurse practitioners, physicians disagree on primary care roles Unnecessary regulatory oversight unfairly limits NP scope of practice and may jeopardize patient safety and health outcomes. Las Vegas – ...

So far, 18 states plus the District of Columbia allow nurse practitioners to practice independently of physicians, a trend that proponents say increases access to primary care services while ...

The arguments surrounding nurse practitioner scope of practice have been heated from both the NP side and the physician side but some in these fields are pushing for conversations that move beyond the ...

There is a need to address the high costs and often poor quality of healthcare in the United States. Many studies show that nurse practitioners (NPs) provide safe and high-quality care when compared ...

As the debate around using nurse practitioners to stem the predicted physician shortage continues to heat up, a new policy brief from the National Institute for Health Care Reform points to barriers ...

Gail Sadler, a nurse practitioner, provides a wide array of primary-care services at her private practice in Carrollwood, Fla., a community that has been buffeted for years by a physician shortage.

As of 2016, there were more than 222,000 nurse practitioners licensed in the United States, according to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ National Nurse Practitioner Database. Here are ...

NP scope of practice varies by state in this country. Each state board of nursing determines how independent or restricted NP practice will be. Politics, rather than logic, often influences this ...