Advanced Practice Nursing

What is a DNP, and what is its value in nursing? Learn more about this advanced degree, including degree requirements, potential career paths, and skills you can develop, that can take your nursing career to the next level.

When a nurse practitioner wrote a prescription for a friend of a friend whom she had never met, she didn't realize it would result in a negligence lawsuit.

AANP President April Kapu explains how residents in states with Full Practice Authority legislation benefit from expanded, excellent quality care.

Nurses interested in how to become a Nurse Practitioner have an opportunity to grow their career and expand patient care in the U.S.

The value of the Doctor of Nursing Practice, or DNP degree, rests not only in the opportunities it provides nurses, but its value to students and patients.

After dropping out of high school and couch surfing for a few years, I wondered if I'd ever become a nurse. But my journey only had just begun.

A recent nurse practitioner survey shows how things have improved since the onset of the pandemic and where improvements are still needed.

Nurse practitioners in community settings are finding COVID-19 cases are changing just about everything — including how safe they feel doing their jobs.

2018 marked 25 years of the state’s nurse practitioners being able to practice independently of physicians and having prescriptive authority. Despite this influx in rural healthcare providers, New Mexico’s rural residents are struggling with a severe shortage of primary care providers.

Advanced practice nurses are required to stay abreast of pharmacology. Nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists also need to take an advanced practice nurse pharmacology course every two years to renew their licenses and national certification. Are you current on the fast-changing medication landscape?