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  2. Family nurse practitioner - Wikipedia

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    A family nurse practitioner (FNP) provides continuing and comprehensive healthcare for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and body systems. Primary care emphasizes the holistic nature of health and it is based on knowledge of the patient in the context of the family and the community, emphasizing disease prevention ...

  3. Nurse practitioner - Wikipedia

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    There are many types of nurse practitioner programs in the United States, with the vast majority being in the specialty of a family nurse practitioner (FNP). [17] There are also psychiatric, adult–geriatric acute care, adult–geriatric primary care, pediatric, women's health, and neonatal nurse practitioner programs. [18]

  4. Family medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Family Medicine Training seats should ideally fill this gap and allow more doctors to pursue family medicine careers. However, the uptake, awareness and development of this specialty is slow. [77] Although family medicine is sometimes called general practice, they are not identical in India.

  5. Nursing credentials and certifications - Wikipedia

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    Nursing credentials and certifications are the various credentials and certifications that a person must have to practice nursing legally. Nurses' postnominal letters (abbreviations listed after the name) reflect their credentials—that is, their achievements in nursing education, licensure, certification, and fellowship.

  6. Medical specialty - Wikipedia

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    A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy.Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (), cancer (), laboratory medicine (), or primary care (family medicine).

  7. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    A primary care physician is usually the first medical practitioner contacted by a patient because of factors such as ease of communication, accessible location, familiarity, and increasingly issues of cost and managed care requirements. In many countries residents are registered as patients of a (local) family doctor and must contact that ...

  8. General practitioner - Wikipedia

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    A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice.. GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive

  9. List of healthcare occupations - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Nurse Practitioner; Flight Nurse; Certified Emergency Nursing Assistant; Certified Emergency Registered Nurse; Certified Emergency Registered Respiratory Therapist; Emergency Medical Technician - Critical Care Paramedic; Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic; Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate 99; Emergency Medical ...