Nurse Practitioner Resident

This 12-month post-graduate Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) residency provides additional skills training as well as independent mentorship experience in a community health center. The intensive clinical program prepares Family Nurse Practitioners to meet the needs of the culturally diverse and clinically complex patients who are typical of a community health center practice. Following the completion of the residency, the resident agrees to work a second year as a full-time nurse practitioner at the health center.

Responsibilities Include:

1. Residency Program Objectives:

• Work within their professional scope of practice and demonstrate adequate fund of knowledge in the application of evidence-based medicine.
• Demonstrate competency by prioritizing acute illness and chronic disease states appropriately, by correctly ordering diagnostic and screening tests, and through safe and effective prescribing...