Dena Wilkie and her client Gram Potter, 93, in Sharon Credit: Rob Strong Rats had invaded the kitchen of an elderly woman’s home in rural Sharon by the time Dena Wilkie first visited two years ago. A ...

The University of Pennsylvania today announced the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, which will recruit and prepare a diverse cadre of expert nurse practitioners to provide ...

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Professional nurse at the hospital bandaging the hand with a medical bandage for a woman patient. (Green Shoot Media photo) Long hours, short staffing and difficult cases can all too often lead to ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s nursing school in Philadelphia is launching a tuition-free program to recruit, train and deploy nurse practitioners to provide primary care in underserved communities.

PHILADELPHIA (February 14, 2022) -- The University of Pennsylvania today announced the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, which will recruit and prepare a diverse cadre of ...

With the nursing workforce in New York projected to face a shortage of more than 40,000 nurses by 2030, and the continuing disparities in health care access — especially in underserved areas like the ...

Many community nurse programs were modeled off parish nurses working in Lyme, New London and Hanover, New Hampshire in the early 2000s. Now, more than a dozen towns in New Hampshire and Vermont have a ...

Hospitals with higher numbers of board-certified nurses experience lower infection rates and improved patient outcomes, ...

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 ...

In recognition of their dedication to community care, two nurses from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been awarded the coveted Queen’s Nurse title by the Queen’s Nursing ...