What is a Nurse Practitioner?
A Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse (RN) who has advanced education and clinical training in a health care specialty area. They are recognized as expert health care providers.
Services provided by our Nurse Practitioner at Midwest Gastroenterology
To help us provide complete health care for all of our patients, our Nurse Practitioner helps us:
- Obtain medical histories and perform physical examinations.
- Diagnose and treat acute health problems.
- Diagnose, treat and monitor chronic diseases.
- Prescribe medications and other treatments.
- Order and interpret diagnostic studies, such as lab work and x-rays.
- Promote positive health behaviors and self-care skills through education and counseling.
- Collaborate with our physicians and other health care professionals, as needed.
- Provide individualized care, focusing not only on health problems, but also on the effects these problems have our patients, their families and their communities.
- Explain the details of health problems, medications and other topics, to help our patients fully understand how to take care of themselves.
- Emphasize wellness and self-care by giving our patients the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices and health care decisions.
Nurse Practitioners provide:
- High quality care.
- A unique approach to health care that emphasizes patient education and preventative health care.
- Care that results in a high level of patient satisfaction
Your insurance carrier will consider all services provided by our Nurse Practitioner as though they were provided by our physicians.
