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.
summation. noun. 1  The act or process of adding; addition. 2  A sum or aggregate. 3  A concluding argument after the presentation of a legal case, especially an argument made to a judge or jury by an attorney for a party as to why that party should prevail.