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.
This article is about the mathematics of finite summation. For infinite summation, see Series (mathematics). For other uses, see Summation (disambiguation). In mathematics, summation (capital Greek sigma symbol: â) is the addition of a sequence of numbers; the result is their sum or total. If numbers are added sequentially from left to right, any intermediate result is a partial sum, prefix sum, or running total of the summation.