INDIANAPOLIS—It shouldn’t be news that nurse practitioners treat pain.
“Nurse practitioners have always treated pain—that’s a part of a patient, as we take care of each patient day by day,” said Sophia Thomas, DNP, FNP, PNP, FAANP, the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and a family and pediatric nurse practitioner in the Daughters of Charity Health System, in Kenner, La.
While treating pain has become more of a focus for the