Credit: Getty Images. The perspectives of professional societies and experts differ significantly on whether clinicians other than physicians should be permitted to use the honorific “doctor.” Recent ...

The Sept. 19 ruling found nurses being referred to as "Doctor"-even with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree-without ...

Arlene Wright is a doctor, but she doesn’t want people to call her one. “I usually tell my patients ‘your majesty’ or ‘your highness’ is fine,” she said. Wright has been a nurse for more than 20 years ...

A federal judge has ruled that nurses with doctorates in California cannot call themselves "doctor" in clinical settings — even if they hold a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. In a decision ...

Florida legislators recently passed legislation to prevent advanced practice nurses in Florida with doctorates from using the honorific “doctor.” The state House and Senate bills proposed that nurses ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (KTIV) - The Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education, (COA), granted the University of South Dakota’s full accreditation for their Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice ...

Based on evidence about the quality of care by advanced practice nurses, more and more states have ditched the requirement that nurse practitioners work only under contracts with doctors. But ...

The governor’s public health proposal costs $242 million. That’s because the Governors Health Commission report finds that Indiana ranks 40 th for health. That ranking is unacceptable. Something must ...