Nurse practitioners may help reduce wait times without impairing quality of care. Ninety-six percent of patients with back problems were satisfied with the assessment carried out by a specially ...

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 ...

Seventy-four percent of the patients were happy to see the NP rather than wait up to a year to see a surgeon. Twenty-six percent said they would have preferred to have been seen by a surgeon in a ...