nurse-practitioner
noun
a registered nurse who has received special training for diagnosing and treating routine or minor ailments. NP
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nurse practitioner
nurse practitionernouna nurse who has specialized advanced skills in diagnosis, psychosocial assessment, and patient management and is permitted to prescribe certain drugs
nurse-practitioner
American
[nurs-prak-tish-uh-ner]
/ ˈnɜrs prækˈtɪʃ ə nər /
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nurse practitioner
noun
nurse practitioner
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of nurse-practitioner
First recorded in 1975–80
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Dr. Dunbar, a nurse-practitioner who lives in Wallingford, Pa., is younger, at 61, but has coped with caregiving for far longer: Her husband, Jeffrey Draine, 60, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2017.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
One that did said that they heard hospitals were focusing on a nurse-practitioner led ER-staffing model, so they were holding off on physician hires for now.
From Slate ● May 1, 2020
Sister Bernie is a nurse-practitioner who first persuaded Stan Brock to bring RAM to Virginia back in 1999.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2016
At the end of his final year of trading, he is offered a $3.6-million bonus—“more,” he writes, “than my mom, a nurse-practitioner midwife, had earned in her entire life.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2016
A few days later she took me to a nurse-practitioner, who listened to my yearnings for my mother.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Bipolar disorder was suspected by psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta and diagnosed by Tewksbury State Hospital and later by Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, the prosecution’s forensic psychology expert.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
There were no red flags in his test results, he says, but he still met with a nurse practitioner trained in preventive neurology in the hopes of optimizing his health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, Peterson’s two-year nurse practitioner program cost around $50,000, a fraction of what she would have spent on medical school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
The patient’s sister-in-law told them a nurse practitioner “came to the home a few times to treat J.L.’s flesh infection and “did not treat the open wounds often because they were too infected.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
I want to be a nurse practitioner, so I figure it's a good gig to warm up on.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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