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 ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The mission of the Birmingham VA Health Care System (BVAHCS) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing (UABSON) Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Residency (MHNPR) is to enhance the ...

Drexel's accredited online Nurse Practitioner (NP) programs prepare students to perform medical diagnosis and treatment through didactic lectures, problem-based learning, direct-patient care clinical ...