Nurse Practitioners

Diagnose and treat acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team. May focus on health promotion and disease prevention. May order, perform, or interpret diagnostic tests such as lab work and x rays. May prescribe medication. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Second Interest High-Point

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Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.

Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.

Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.

Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.

Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.

Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.

Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.

Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.

Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.

Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.

Counsel patients about drug regimens and possible side effects or interactions with other substances, such as food supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, or herbal remedies.

Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).

Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.

Maintain current knowledge of state legal regulations for nurse practitioner practice, including reimbursement of services.

Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.

Consult with, or refer patients to, appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.

Treat or refer patients for primary care conditions, such as headaches, hypertension, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory infections, and dermatological conditions.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in nursing.

Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care.

Perform routine or annual physical examinations.

Maintain departmental policies and procedures in areas such as safety and infection control.

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.

Advocate for accessible health care that minimizes environmental health risks.

Keep abreast of regulatory processes and payer systems, such as Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and private sources.

Supervise or coordinate patient care or support staff activities.

Angiocaths

Apnea monitors

Argon lasers

Arterial blood gas monitoring equipment

Arterial line catheters

Automated external defibrillators AED

Back braces

Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators

Binocular light compound microscopes

Biopsy punches

Blood drawing syringes

Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers

Cardiac monitors

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR face shields

Chest tubes

Crash carts

Crutches

Diagnostic tuning forks

Digital medical thermometers

Doppler ultrasound equipment

Electrocardiography EKG machines

Electronic blood pressure monitors

Electrosurgical cauterization machines

Endotracheal ET tubes

Epidural catheters

Evacuated blood collection tubes

Fiberoptic endoscopes

Fiberoptic laryngoscopes

Flexible sigmoidoscopes

Glucometers

Halo traction equipment

Handheld nebulizers

Head immobilization devices

Hemodynamic monitors

Hemoglobin analyzers

Holter monitors

Hypodermic syringes

Incentive spirometers

Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP

Intracranial pressure monitors

Intravenous IV administration sets

Intravenous IV cutdown trays

Intravenous IV infusion pumps

Intubation sets

Lancets

Laptop computers

Lower extremity braces

Mechanical intermittent positive pressure ventilators

Mechanical stethoscopes

Medical examination protective gloves

Medical scales

Microhematocrit centrifuges

Mosquito hemostats

Multi-line telephone systems

Multiple lumen central line catheters

Nasal catheters

Nasal suctioning equipment

Nasogastric tubes

Neck braces

Ophthalmoscopes

Oral suctioning equipment

Orthopedic splinting equipment

Otoscopes

Oxygen concentrators

Oxygen delivery masks

Oxygen flowmeters

Pacemaker analyzers

Peak flowmeters

Pediatric blood pressure cuffs

Pericardiocentesis kits

Personal computers

Personal digital assistants PDA

Pneumatic tourniquets

Portable electrocardiography EKG machines

Protective face shields

Protective gowns

Pulmonary artery catheters

Pulse oximeters

Pulsed dye lasers

Reflex hammers

Safety goggles

Skin staplers

Snellen eye charts

Specimen collection containers

Spinal immobilization equipment

Straight surgical scissors

Surgical scalpels

Surgical staple removers

Suturing kits

Tablet computers

Thoracentesis kits

Tissue culture incubators

Tourniquets

Tracheal suctioning equipment

Tracheotomy sets

Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment

Transcutaneous pacemakers

Tympanometers

Umbilical catheters

Upper extremity braces

Appreciate the time it takes to get clear with yourself. 
There is much more involved than institutional "education" to be able to be helpful.
See yourself.  Take responsibility for what is yours.  Learn compassion for being imperfect.
Appreciate the effort to be honest in becoming yourself.

I work with women who choose to be very open about who they are and what they are dealing with in being themselves.

Kristin Stevens

GYN Nurse Practitioner

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Kristin Stevens

GYN Nurse Practitioner

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Philosophy & Religion

Helping People

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

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