A 32-year-old Tennessee woman fatally shot her two young sons and 88-year-old grandmother before killing herself in a horrific quadruple murder-suicide, authorities said. Deputies with the Humphreys ...

Annual median compensation for physician assistants and nurse practitioners varies across states, from a low of $117,499 for Alabama to as high as $195,603 in California, according to a survey ...

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 ...

For Elena Prendergast, DNP, APRN, the path to becoming a palliative care nurse practitioner wasn’t straightforward, and she didn’t get there until a month before her 49th birthday. She doubted herself ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

As of July 2025, 30 states allow full practice authority for nurse practitioners, up from 22 before the pandemic. The temporary, nationwide expansion of nurse practitioner (NP) practice authority at ...

A Columbia-based nurse practitioner is challenging Missouri's collaborative practice agreement rule, citing financial burden and lack of enforcement. The lawsuit argues the rule violates state and ...

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 ...

News On 6’s MaKayla Glenn spoke with Shelby Pope, a Skiatook-base nurse practitioner who says this change will make a big difference for both patients and small practices like hers. SKIATOOK, Okla. - ...

When there is no doctor around, a nurse should be able to step in, prescribing medicine for a sore throat or advising a terrified parent at 3 a.m. Such was the conviction of Loretta Ford as a young ...