NP Week 2024: Celebrating Nurse Practitioners!

More and more patients are embracing prevention and early intervention to stay healthy and avoid health related complications. NPs encourage health promotion and a comprehensive, wellness-first approach. November 10-16, 2024 is National Nurse Practitioners (NP) Week! 

Fast Facts:

• More than 70% of all NPs deliver primary care.
• There are more than 385,000 licensed NPs in the country, and just over 15,000 in North Carolina.
• NPs can prescribe medicines including controlled substances in all 50 states.

Source: AANP 'The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner'

"Nurse practitioners are the cornerstone of health care, delivering comprehensive and patient-centered care for all individuals.  For more than half a century, NPs have delivered high-quality primary, acute, and mental health care to millions of patients." 

---Stephen A Ferrara, DNP, AANP President 

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