1. 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. 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.Family MedicineFamily Medicine

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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:

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

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

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13. 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.