Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

What Is a Nurse Practitioner? A nurse practitioner (NP) is a health care professional who offers a wide range of acute, primary, and specialty care services, either alone or alongside a doctor. The ...

Nurses provide patient care in a wide variety of settings around the world. Registered nurses (RNs) can also earn an advanced degree and become an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). These ...

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Much of the growth among the nurse practitioner workforce is expected to be in emergency medicine and more complex clinical roles.

A nurse practitioner-led triage intervention reduces wait and total encounter times; however, it has no effect on patient satisfaction rates, a quality improvement project reports.