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.
the act or process of summing. 2. the result of this; an aggregate or total. 3. a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them. 4. Law. the final arguments of opposing attorneys before a case goes to the jury.