Family Nurse Practitioner

The *Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)* functions as an independent healthcare provider who, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary health team, including mental health counselors and other nurse practitioners, is responsible for providing comprehensive care to both well and ill patients in an outpatient setting. The FNP demonstrates a high degree of clinical expertise in working with patients, newborn through elderly, with acute and chronic mental, physical, and spiritual illnesses. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, physical, mental, and spiritual health assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, health promotion and care coordination for patients and families with acute and chronic health needs. The FNP demonstrates an advanced level of medical/nursing clinical knowledge, communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, professionalism and systems-based practice. He/she works with administrative and clinical staff to assure safe, effective, quality patient care and to promote Samaritan Health and Wellness Center’s mission.