Completing an online nurse practitioner program puts current registered nurses (RNs) on track to a higher-paying career. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice nurses who focus their careers ...

A Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) oversees many responsibilities, including physical and psychosocial assessments, emergency psychiatric care and treatment effectiveness ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Akron Children's and UA are working together to bring more pediatric nurse practitioners to the region. Here's why that ...

The education of nurse practitioners is evolving in response to the increasing complexity of patient care. Contemporary clinical education models focus on competency-based training, which integrates ...

Graduates of the DNP Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-PC) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice in a variety of settings with populations of infants, children and ...

Graduates of the DNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Specialty provide mental health care in a variety of primary care settings for patients across the lifespan. Psychiatric ...

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - McNeese State University’s nurse practitioner program was ranked as the second best in the state of Louisiana. The rankings, which are determined by RegisteredNursing.org, ...