Description
Provide comprehensive, family-centered primary care across the lifespan as a Family Nurse Practitioner, diagnosing and treating acute and chronic conditions while emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention. Practice independently and collaboratively to order and interpret tests, perform routine procedures, prescribe medications, and coordinate referrals. Requires RN licensure plus graduate FNP education and national certification.
- • Deliver family-centered primary care to infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
- • Obtain and interpret comprehensive histories, physical exams, and risk assessments across the lifespan.
- • Diagnose and manage common acute illnesses and minor injuries in the outpatient setting.
- • Manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD, and hyperlipidemia.
- • Develop individualized, evidence-based care plans and goals with patients and families.
- • Order, perform, and interpret laboratory tests and imaging; follow up on abnormal results.
- • Perform wellness visits, school, sports, and work physicals, and Medicare annual wellness visits.
- • Provide pediatric well-child care, growth and developmental screening, and anticipatory guidance.
- • Provide women's health services including contraception counseling, Pap tests, and STI screening per scope.
- • Administer and update immunizations for all age groups.
- • Counsel on lifestyle, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and tobacco, alcohol, and substance use.
- • Screen for behavioral and mental health conditions; initiate management or refer as needed.
- • Prescribe medications and adjust dosages, routes, and frequencies based on patient characteristics and guidelines.
- • Monitor medication effectiveness, adherence, and safety; identify and manage adverse drug reactions and interactions.
- • Educate patients and caregivers on self-management of acute and chronic conditions and care plans.
- • Recommend cost-effective diagnostic and therapeutic interventions using shared decision-making.
- • Perform office procedures such as suturing, splinting, cryotherapy, incision and drainage, wound care, and culture collection.
- • Provide reproductive and preconception counseling, with prenatal and postpartum referrals as appropriate.
- • Coordinate care and refer to specialists when conditions exceed scope or require collaborative management.
- • Schedule and conduct follow-up visits and telehealth check-ins to monitor outcomes.
- • Maintain complete, timely documentation and use EHR, coding, and payer guidelines appropriately.
- • Track and close care gaps; manage patient panels using population health and quality metrics.
- • Promote preventive care and screenings per USPSTF and ACIP recommendations.
- • Advocate for access to care and address social determinants and environmental health risks.
- • Guide patients and families to community resources and help navigate healthcare systems.
- • Maintain current knowledge of state regulations, scope of practice, and reimbursement for FNP services.
- • Participate in quality improvement, safety, and infection control initiatives; mentor or supervise support staff.
- • Engage in continuing education, literature review, and professional activities to maintain competency.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
