The Top 25 Nurse Practitioner Resources

A nurse practitioner is a registered nurse who has advanced training in education along with the necessary certification and licenses. They provide care to patients given their specialty field. A nurse practitioner can specialize in a field or be generalized, such as a family nurse practitioner. The nurse practitioner can diagnose and treat symptoms, diseases, illnesses, and injuries. On [...]

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What is a Nurse Practitioner

A nurse practitioner (NP) has completed advanced education and training in diagnosing and managing medical conditions. Nurse practitioners deliver a broad spectrum of health care services, including identical medical processes ordinarily conducted by a qualified physician. In fact, a nurse practitioner can act as a patient’s health care provider. Nurse practitioners focus on individuated health [...]

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Why You Should Consider Becoming a Nurse Practitioner

There are several advantages to becoming a part of one of the many nurse practitioner programs available. By pursuing a career as a nurse practitioner, you can provide patients with medical care for less than what it would cost to visit a doctor. Depending on the state you live in, you may be able to [...]

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Nurse Practitioner Career

Nurse practitioner programs are now available online and can be completed without going to college to obtain the degree. In current news, nurse practitioners are reported to have the highest median of salaries in the United States as of 2010. This report is taken from a nationwide survey. Some of the top wages were paid [...]

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Managing Chronic Pain Using Algorithms

As people are living longer there is a new effort to assess pain in older adults. Nurse practitioner Anna R DuPen and her colleagues Anita M Jablonski, Phd, RN and Mary Ersek, PhD, Rn, FAAN reported on the idea of using algorithms to manage pain in older adults. Chronic illnesses and the effect on quality [...]

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The Risks of ICDs

A lot of law goes into medicine, and with good reason. Nurses and doctors are basically responsible for keeping people healthy, and sometimes tinkering with their bodies. This means medicine, regulating body temperature, manipulating nutrition, and in the most extreme case, surgery. The government regulates these things tightly for our health. Although most nurses do [...]

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Infant Immunization

If you are a registered nurse, or are studying in a nurse practitioner program, then it is essential to keep abreast of development in medicine, because new medicines arise all the time and your studies are never done. A recent article by Reuters describes the impact of new vaccination practices, which can reduce infant mortality [...]

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