How do they match: Nurse Practitioners

  • Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
  • Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
  • Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
  • Urgent Care NP
  • Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner
  • Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner

  • Advocate for accessible health care that minimizes environmental health risks.
  • Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
  • Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.
  • Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
  • Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.
  • Keep abreast of regulatory processes and payer systems, such as Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and private sources.
  • Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
  • Perform primary care procedures such as suturing, splinting, administering immunizations, taking cultures, and debriding wounds.
  • Provide patients or caregivers with assistance in locating health care resources.
  • Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care.
  • Supervise or coordinate patient care or support staff activities.
  • Treat or refer patients for primary care conditions, such as headaches, hypertension, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory infections, and dermatological conditions.

  • Supervise patient care personnel.