With physician staffing shortages and a lack of appointment openings across traditional primary care settings, patients are faced with inaccessibility to care. As a result, patients are looking beyond ...

(Reuters Health) - A growing number of nurse practitioners are providing primary care in rural and low-income U.S. communities where the physician workforce is shrinking, a new study suggests.

Primary care is in high demand, but the ongoing physician shortage leaves plenty of access gaps. One solution? Harnessing the skills of nurse practitioners in underserved areas, according to a new ...

The pandemic has taught us about an economic and logistic concept that most people take for granted, if they’ve even thought about it at all: the global supply chain. Beginning early in the Covid-19 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The argument also fails to address broader policies that influence both NP and PCP behaviors. Policies that unjustifiably lead to ...

For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks that patients have relied on doctors for. But NPs in ...

A meeting with a nurse practitioner prior to discharge could improve communication between hospital staff and primary care providers, easing the transition after hospitalization and improving patient ...

The shortage of primary care doctors is a national problem. To cope, a large health system in Massachusetts is using an AI ...

Nurse-researchers at South Dakota State University are helping rural clinics more fully utilize registered nurses in primary care and have expanded the nursing curriculum to better prepare students to ...

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