Family Medicine is the discipline of choice for the nurse who welcomes the challenge of a variety of patient conditions and wants the rewarding experience of caring for people in the context of their families and communities.

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• Family Medicine is the discipline of choice
  for the nurse who welcomes the challenge of a
  variety of patient conditions and wants the
  rewarding experience of caring for people in the
  context of their families and communities.

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• Family medicine education prepares you to provide
  comprehensive primary care for people in all
  stages of the life cycle. Emphasis is placed on
  health promotion, disease prevention, patient
  education, family-oriented care and the
  behavioral sciences.

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• Nurse practitioners, physician assistants and
  registered dietitians these types of
  specialists in nursing are educated in family
  practicing for nurses.

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• WHAT IS A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (PA) AND WHAT IS A
  FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER (FNP)?

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• A primary care physician assistant or a family
  nurse practitioner is an individual working with
  a physician in a primary care setting to provide
  a team approach to patient care. He/she has been
  trained to assess the health status of a patient,
  deliver preventive care, counsel patients on
  psychosocial and health problems, diagnose and
  treat common minor illnesses, and manage stable
  chronic illnesses.

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• FNP/PA are working with physicians and other
  health workers in a variety of settings, such as
  private practices, community clinics and county
  hospitals, seeing an average of 25 patients per
  day.

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• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN FNP AND A
  PA?An FNP comes from a nursing background while
  a PA generally has a different health career
  background. Their respective fields have quite
  different origins and histories. They operate
  under different state laws and titles. However,
  their roles in the health field can be similar.

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• Nurse practitioners are advanced practice nurses
  who use theory, research, and clinical expertise
  to improve the health of people of all ages. As a
  health care provider, the nurse practitioner may

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• Assess patients' health status
• Provide disease prevention and health promotion
  services
• Diagnose and treat common acute health problems
• Manage care for stable, but chronically ill
  patients
• Manage prenatal care during pregnancy
• Participate in, or manage, clinical research
  projects

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• Potential employment opportunities for family
  nurse practitioner graduates
• Collaborative clinical practice
• Nurse-managed clinics
• Rural health clinics
• Occupational health
• Migrant clinics
• Specialty practice
• Clinical research
• Group clinical practice/HMOs
• Parish clinics
• Medically-underserved areas

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Alternative/Natural medicine

• Alternative Medicine Colleges Holistic Healing
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  Training in Therapeutic Massage

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Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner Training

• The healthcare system is gradually changing.
  People are starting to lose access to doctors
  because of the prohibitive costs involved. Due
  largely to the ever increasing costs of
  healthcare, family nurse practitioners are
  becoming responsible for more and more of the
  daily medical needs of families. Nurse
  practitioners can be trained to perform many of
  the more minor procedures that doctors once
  performed. Because they are paid much less than
  doctors, a nurse practitioner's involvement in a
  family's medical needs can cause the ultimate
  bill to the family and usually their health
  insurance company to decrease. What this means
  for those that are looking to become nurse
  practitioner's is generally a relatively higher
  wage. This increased nursing responsibility has
  made the job of a nurse practitioner more
  lucrative. For this reason, there is more
  incentive than ever for people to earn nursing
  degrees.

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