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The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) has opened nominations for its prestigious State Award for Excellence. Presented annually to nurse practitioners (NPs) and those who [...]

A Michigan nurse was struck by a car and killed this weekend while trying to help a patient who had walked out of a nursing home and laid down in the middle of a busy road. Pebbles Latrice [...]

Nurses and physicians see health insurer policies as barriers to patient care, according to data from the American Hospital Association (AHA). Morning Consult conducted three surveys on behalf of [...]

Nurses are known for their acts of kindness, but Lisa Schneidenbach does it with incredible character. She dresses up as many different characters – all in the name of lifting patients’ spirits. [...]

Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick are planning to go on strike. Their union, representing more than 1,700 workers, says the strike will begin Aug. 4. [...]

Kristin Hannah has taken readers to the depths of the Alaskan wilderness (“The Great Alone”), World War II in France (“The Nightingale”), the Dust Bowl (“The Four [...]

Healthcare’s future has arrived, and it is becoming increasingly linked with robotics. Robotics in healthcare is gaining popularity. According to a recent analysis by InsightAce Analytic, the [...]

Joanna Patchett has always had a fear of death, and the dying. “I was terrified of being responsible for people’s lives and was frightened of the space between life and death,” she said. And yet [...]

Obesity has been a worldwide health problem for decades, so much so that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a global epidemic for the past several decades. Recently, obesity [...]

Doctors are concerned that a Supreme Court ruling issued June 29 will have far-reaching effects not only on the diversity of doctors and other care providers in training but ultimately also on [...]