October 4, 2023 - According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nurse practitioners deliver "high quality health care in more than 1 billion patient visits each year," and as of ...

While the number of psychiatrists in the United States to manage unmet mental healthcare needs is lacking, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners may help fill gaps in care. Researchers at the ...

Physician and nurse practitioner comanagement Nurse practitioner and physician comanagement in primary care has 3 vital attributes: effective communication; mutual respect and trust; and clinical ...

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 ...

Joanne Spetz ([email protected]) is a professor of economics at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Healthforce Center, both at the University of California San Francisco ...