Who is a Nurse Practitioner (NP)?
NPs are advanced practice nurses who provide high quality health care services. Today, NPs are mainstream providers found in both primary and specialty care. NPs diagnose, treat, and prescribe across a wide range of health problems taking a holistic approach to patient care. Focusing on health promotion, education, and counseling as well as disease prevention, NPs assist their patients in making healthy choices. Increasingly, the public has grown to rely upon NPs to provide high quality, individualized care resulting in high levels of patient satisfaction. NPs serve as primary health care professionals for you and your family NPs offer both general and specialized health care services NPs spend quality time listening to your concerns, working with you to help you achieve and maintain good health, and carefully explaining your health care options to provide the appropriate diagnosis and treatment NP services are covered by most insurance plans NPs work independently in collaboration wit
