This Nurses Week, New Mexico’s nursing community has a new reason to celebrate. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently signed HB 178 into law – a significant update to the state’s Nursing Practice Act ...

Supporting nursing while improving the health of New Mexicans across the state. That is the mission of the New Mexico Center for Nursing Excellence. With Nurse Appreciation Week kicking off on May 6, ...

As health care needs continue to climb across New Mexico, nurse practitioners are stepping up to fill the gap. Nurse practitioners, or NPs, are advanced practice nurses who can diagnose, treat and ...

When Kevin Thompson, 65, retired to Hurley, New Mexico, in July 2023, he wanted to stay busy and get involved in his new ...

Martha Schwebach is remembered for being a trailblazer in nursing and rural health care in New Mexico. Schwebach — considered to be the nation’s first family nurse practitioner — opened a medical ...

New Mexico is now part of a new nurse licensure compact via Senate Bill 1, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez signed the legislation Thursday, one day ...

[1] Friends recount the life of UNMH pediatric nurse killed outside hospital – Loved ones are mourning the loss of a nurse who was killed while heading to work on Thursday by a speeding car that ...

Apr. 9—A former nurse at a state prison near Las Cruces has filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department and inmate medical care provider Wexford Health Sources, alleging she was ...

Now Accepting New Patients! Mercy is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC). She has experience in working with individuals across the life span, struggling with ...