Most experts agree that advanced practice clinicians — nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other clinical providers who have advanced training in their fields — will play key roles in ...

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have made up a greater proportion of the healthcare workforce over the last 15 years, a trend that isn’t about to change, according to new projections. The ...

Allowing autonomy for advanced practice practitioners continues to be contested state by state. At the beginning of this year, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants ...

Advanced practice providers (APPs) have lower productivity compared with emergency department physicians, seeing fewer and less complex patients and generating less relative value units per hour, and ...

"Telenursing is the use of telemedicine technology to deliver nursing care and conduct nursing practice. Broader than telenursing, telehealth is the removal of time and distance barriers for the ...

April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...

Somewhere in the hospital, an alarm goes off. A panicked crowd begins to form inside a patient’s room, where a monitor reveals a flat line and a woman lies equally still on a bed. In moments, a ...

New Jersey is a state of health care contradictions. We house some of the world’s leading institutions of higher education for health care professionals, yet thousands of residents live in medical ...

In “Is There a Doctor in the House?,” investigative reporter Karin Price Mueller examined New Jersey’s growing fight over APN (advanced practice nurse) autonomy and physician‑collaboration rules. That ...

Some 55 certified registered nurse anesthesiologist students from Chicago-area universities took part in a workshop June 21 in which they were told they were the future of health care. A continuing ...

Every so often, Megan Conner, a nurse anesthetist in Greenville said she sees a patient who’s driven for hours to come for a screening colonoscopy but who instead has to be sent to the emergency ...