Let's say you hurt your knee doing your best Tom Brady impression playing flag football. It hurts like the dickens and you’re not sure if you tore something or just have a really bad case of ...

The push for healthcare reform and cost effective care has made both the nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) professions highly desirable. Money magazine recently ranked the PA ...

Consumers receptive to NP, PA primary-care models The type of care needed, urgency for service and prior personal experiences influenced patient decisions to choose NPs and PAs as healthcare providers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of provider writing medical data of hospitalized patient while visiting him at intensive care unit. The nurse ...

Physician interactions with nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are only going to increase in frequency ― the US Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts a 40% increase in the NP ...

Because of workforce needs and demographic and chronic disease trends, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are taking a larger role in the primary care of medically complex ...

PracticeMatch released a survey on nurse practitioner and physician assistant compensation and career satisfaction. The survey included more than 1,000 NP and PA respondents. Here are 10 key findings: ...

More than 70 percent of nurse practitioners and physician assistants are satisfied with their jobs, according to a recent Jackson Healthcare survey, Advanced Practice Trends 2012-2013: An Attitude and ...

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Two years ago, I argued that independent care from nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician's assistants (PAs) would not have ill effects on health outcomes. To the surprise of no one, NPs and PAs ...