What Is a Nurse Practitioner? A nurse practitioner (NP) is a health care professional who offers a wide range of acute, primary, and specialty care services, either alone or alongside a doctor. The ...

Deaconess Memorial Medical Center is pleased to announce the addition of Dixie Stiles, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, CEN, CCRN to its medical associate staff. She has joined the hospitalist staff to ...

Nurses provide patient care in a wide variety of settings around the world. Registered nurses (RNs) can also earn an advanced degree and become an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). These ...

Image courtesy of James Q. Simmons, DNP A Q&A with Hospitalist Nurse Practitioner and CEO of Simmons Medical & Media Consulting James Q. Simmons, DNP, BJMC, RN, AGACNP-BC, in honor of NP Week. In ...

It's been a year since hospitalist physicians were first allowed to bill the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) using their own unique specialty code. The C6 code, introduced in April 2017 ...