A doctor describes a nurse that he recruited for his own practice while she was receiving treatment for breast cancer. I am nominating Lily Apfel, LVN, for the Extraordinary Healer® Award. I came to ...

What Is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner? Palliative NPs care for patients living with chronic conditions. They seek to improve patients’ quality of life during any period of a disease or to ...

Active and retired nurses in Deep East Texas are paying tribute to their own. Their mission is to honor nurses at the end of ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) A registered nurse (RN) wrote to ...

This article was originally published in 2012. To a patient, it may look like a nurse is touching a wrist, changing a bandage, reading a chart and asking random questions. What she’s also doing ...

Eric Johnson's husband, Dennis Hopkins, was given a 50% chance of surviving lung cancer. During one hospital stay, they met their unsung hero, a nurse named Sherry.

Is it hard to let go of other people’s sadness and grief at the end of a day at work? Yeah. There’s this moment, especially when I’ve taken care of someone for a while, where I’ll walk ...