2025 was a turbulent year in healthcare. But despite these pressures, patients had high expectations for their providers. Zocdoc’s 2025 What Patients Want report analyzed how patients navigated care in 2025, drawing from patient experiences, search trends, and booking behavior, We break down what the report signals for nurse practitioners and the future of care delivery.
The concept of shared decision-has been propelled into the spotlight as a result of the CDC’s vaccine schedule overhaul, but public knowledge of shared decision-making is far from complete. That means nurse practitioners who work with children and families weighing immunization decisions must forge workflows around shared decision-making.
On January 5, the HHS announced an abrupt and significant overhaul of the childhood vaccination schedule, reducing the number of universally recommended childhood immunizations from 17 to 11. Learn what's changing and what nurse practitioners can anticipate in the exam room.
The World Health Organization recently released its first guideline on GLP-1 medications for obesity management. This recognition could have potential ripple effects on stigma reduction and access, both of which are sorely needed in obesity treatment.
Perimenopause and menopause have become some of the most dynamic areas of women’s health research. Regulatory shifts and new research have propelled the topic into the spotlight, sparking conversations about how the transition is discussed in clinical, academic, and public spaces.
For psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs), the APNA's State of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Workforce report captures both the growth and the limits of a profession under immense pressure to fill national shortages.
Evidence-based practice is the cornerstone of care delivery, but even clinicians may not often stop to think about how that evidence actually translates from research to reality. Learn more about the evidence-practice gap and why it takes years, or even decades, for new innovations to reach clinical workflows.
In nearly every care setting, from the emergency department to the family practice clinic, nurse practitioners encounter patients living with substance use disorders. Yet stigma remains the invisible variable that still determines who gets screened, who gets offered treatment, and who feels welcome to return. Stigma has become not just a social problem, but a structural determinant of health.
Precepting endures because NPs believe in it, but the infrastructure that should support the practice doesn’t make it easy. That gap between commitment and coordination is what the profession now has to reckon with.
Medical misinformation is an epidemic of its own, and every clinician plays a part in addressing it. This week, NP 411 dives into how NPs can lead with compassion while staying grounded in evidence.
