LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – This week marks National Nurse Practitioner Week — a time to honor the vital role nurse practitioners play in delivering care across Kentucky and the nation.

Nurse practitioners, or NPs, go beyond traditional nursing duties. They provide primary care, diagnose illnesses, write prescriptions, and focus on preventative and chronic care management.

For Lexington-based NP Mandy Walters, the profession became her calling later in life. “The nurse practitioner role gave me more autonomy and the ability to work with a team to really get out in the community and take care of patients,” Walters said.

Walters works with Sprinter Health, a company that sends licensed medical professionals — called “Springers” — into patients’ homes to provide at-home diagnostic ca

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