The purpose of this paper is to describe how caring theory guides NP practice. Clinical exemplars demonstrate the utility of theory- and evidence-based practice by NPs.

One member of that team is the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). In 1946, the United States passed the National Mental Health Act, which established psychiatric nursing as one of ...

Remember we can frame proving mathematical theorems as an NP-complete problem. Pick any famous unsolved math question. The theory of NP-completeness then tells us that there exists some level of ...

The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) issued domains and competencies for every NP graduate that included emphasis on the nurse-patient relationship, use of healing ...