Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of provider writing medical data of hospitalized patient while visiting him at intensive care unit. The nurse ...

Joyce Knestrick can independently give physical exams, diagnose health conditions, prescribe select medications, and make referrals as a nurse practitioner at a clinic in West Virginia. But when she ...

A Pennsylvania state House member plans to introduce a bill to allow nurse practitioners to practice independently, a move supporters say would replace an outdated law and prevent loss of nurse ...

When nurse practitioner Payal Patel changed medical practices, patient Ni-Ima Lattimer went with her. The Hempstead woman said she’s more comfortable with her and other nurses than with physicians.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The growing shortage of health care providers could be helped with a change in state law, says one group. As KDKA political editor Jon Delano reports, nurse practitioners say if ...

The roles of nurse practitioner and physician assistant are two of the fastest-growing and top-rated jobs in healthcare. Between 2021 and 2031, nurse practitioner jobs are expected to have increased ...

Two Pennsylvania state senators have introduced a bill that would give full independence to nurse practitioners, who have long worked under close supervision of doctors in Pennsylvania. Nurse ...

Here are 19 numbers to know illustrating the income differences between physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. The mean annual salary among physician assistants is $119,460, ...

A bipartisan pair of Pennsylvania senators plan to renew their long quest to let nurse practitioners care for patients without contractual tethers to doctors, and an advocate says the state’s ...