NP: Nurse Practitioner Nurse practitioners are healthcare professionals that complete advanced, graduate level educational programs that enable them to practice independently or in collaboration with other health care professionals and other individuals to diagnose, treat and manage the patient's health problems.
sum. n. 1. Mathematics. a. An amount obtained as a result of adding numbers. b. An arithmetic problem: a child good at sums. 2. The whole amount, quantity, or number; an aggregate: the sum of the team's combined experience. 3.
Summarizing. 1. Summarizing means that you are explain ideas or facts that you found in someone else's work (in a book, etc), but you are explaining them in your own words, using your own word order. Compare Example 3 (below) to Example 1 and Example 2 (above). 2.