Oklahoma’s new law, effective in November 2025, allows certain nurse practitioners to prescribe medications without physician ...

With the passage of House Bill 2298, Oklahoma joins a growing list of states granting nurse practitioners full practice ...

Phoenix Union High School District now offers telemedicine services on campus to give students and staff quick health care ...

A new guideline to diagnose and treat hypertension is aimed at helping primary care clinicians, including family physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, manage the disease.

A new guideline to diagnose and treat hypertension is aimed at helping primary care clinicians, including family physicians, ...

A nurse practitioner in Pinellas County says time is of the essence when treating a stroke, and it's important to recognize the symptoms.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are oral medications that lower blood pressure. They are used to treat ... Ross, PhD, DNP, FAANP is a nurse practitioner and PhD in Human and Social ...

BENTON HARBOR — Andrews University School of Nursing and New Heights Christian Community Development Association will offer free blood pressure ... Bowen Health practitioners lead the 1-hour ...

The California Board of Registered Nursing is construing a five-year-old state licensing law for nurse practitioners (NPs) in a way that violates the law’s original intent, say attorneys for NPs ...

the NHS Health Check should be giving you blood pressure readings every five years. If that hasn’t happened for any reason, speak to your pharmacist, GP, or nurse practitioner about it ― or ...

By Clay Risen Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical ...

As Dr. Ford liked to joke, a nurse could use a stethoscope to take a patient’s blood pressure but wasn ... nurses who became the first nurse practitioners. The program initially was limited ...