Joyce Knestrick can independently give physical exams, diagnose health conditions, prescribe select medications, and make referrals as a nurse practitioner at a clinic in West Virginia. But when she ...

ALBANY -- Midwives freed themselves from doctors last year, and now nurse practitioners want the same. A bill before the Legislature would eliminate the state mandate that requires nurse practitioners ...

Nurse practitioners’ autonomy and independence in caring for patients and the good relationships they have with healthcare administrators improves their teamwork with physicians, according to a study ...

Alberta's nurse practitioners say they could be doing more to help the province's ailing health-care system — by caring for patients who don't have a family doctor— and they're renewing calls for the ...

A year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization classified burnout as an occupational phenomenon. Described as a “syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress ...