If you’re passionate about health care and want to make a difference in patients’ lives, consider becoming a nurse practitioner, which is the No. 1 job for 2025 in U.S. News Best Jobs rankings.

Alverno College has launched two new Master of Science in Nursing programs — a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program and a Dual Adult-Gerontology Primary and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program ...

This is a report of that evaluation and a review of the benefits, hazards, and implications of nurse practitioner led services. Nine years ago in Ashington, Northumberland, a new neonatal service was ...

Daily ward rounds to review antibiotics in neonates were not happening on transitional care and postnatal wards, thus to ensure regular care, advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led reviews were ...

Advanced neonatal nurse practitioners (ANNPs) may have a role in this changing neonatal service. The effectiveness of the ANNP has been established in North America but has not been properly evaluated ...

Students who attend school part time may take longer to become a PA than full-time students. The pay is similar. According to the BLS, in 2023 the median annual salary for nurse practitioners was ...

many patients forgo preventive health care and wait to seek care until they become so ill that they must be hospitalized or seek care in more expensive emergency rooms. Nurse practitioners and ...

In addition to the 24/7 neonatal nurse practitioners, several nurses have become NICU-certified, Gust said. St. Francis is able to keep more babies who would have previously been transferred to ...

For all the many ways in which someone might become a nurse ... advanced training for registered nurses. It allows for specialization in areas such as nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse ...

Ford, a pediatric nurse who worked tenaciously to expand access to health services, co-founding the profession of nurse practitioner ... she hoped to become a teacher, but college was “ruled ...

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