Advanced practice providers expand access by conducting initial consults, ordering diagnostic workups, explaining anti-amyloid risk–benefit tradeoffs, and coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders ...

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 ...

As patients, families, and fellow healthcare workers, let us take a moment to recognize and celebrate APPs.

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 ...

With physician shortages and the high cost of employing physicians, APPs have become a mainstay of care teams. The following is an extended excerpt from a HealthLeaders story published in August.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A bipartisan bill before a Missouri Senate committee would allow Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to operate independently after completing 2,000 hours in a collaborative agreement with a physician ...

Nurses working at an advanced level are autonomous professionals and are ‘not substitutes for any other profession’, the RCN has stated.