Over time, the public has begun increasingly recognizing and embracing nurse practitioners as healthcare providers. “I think we’ve come a long way,” said Ulrike Muench, PhD, MSN, an associate ...

Some nurses and physicians opposed the nurse practitioner model. Certain nursing leaders believed that nurse practitioners were no longer practicing nursing, that the title was "ambiguous and ...

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 ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing is a national leader in Family Nurse Practitioner education through both specialty tracks offered in the Master of Science in Nursing and ...

At the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, we are advancing the future of Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner education through both the Master of Science in Nursing and ...