CARMEL, Ind. — A nurse practitioner who police said collected more than a thousand opioid pills in a five-day span using fraudulent prescriptions was formally charged on Wednesday. Katherine Curtis, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers are weighing several proposals aimed at addressing the state’s looming shortage of medical providers, including expanding the role of nurse practitioners and ...

A Columbia-based nurse practitioner is challenging Missouri's collaborative practice agreement rule, citing financial burden and lack of enforcement. The lawsuit argues the rule violates state and ...

Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) is excited to invite applications to apply for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) practicum program for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Nurse shortages and mounting labor costs are among health system CEOs’ top concerns, and a new survey puts numbers to the financial risks hospitals face from nurse vacancies and churn. The 2025 NSI ...

The California Board of Registered Nursing is construing a five-year-old state licensing law for nurse practitioners (NPs) in a way that violates the law’s original intent, say attorneys for NPs ...

In 2024, nurse practitioner education programs made national news over their education practices. Specifically, critics were concerned that NPs were not receiving the necessary education to maintain ...

When there is no doctor around, a nurse should be able to step in, prescribing medicine for a sore throat or advising a terrified parent at 3 a.m. Such was the conviction of Loretta Ford as a young ...

She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants. By Clay Risen Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first ...

The field of mental health presents a number of professionals to provide care for individuals. One member of that team is the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). In 1946, the United ...