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title: "What is a Family Nurse Practitioner"
url: https://medpointexpress.com/nursepractitioner.htm
description: "What is a Family Nurse Practitioner: the recovered MEDPOINT express explainer page, archived."
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# What is a Family Nurse Practitioner

A family nurse practitioner is a registered nurse who has completed a graduate education program in nursing and has achieved further certification by a professional nursing organization.

Family nurse practitioners provide a wide variety of health services, from taking health histories to performing physical examinations and diagnosing/treating common health problems. They can also order appropriate laboratory tests and prescribe any required medications.

Recorded 2005 Reproduced verbatim from the recovered page. This is an archived explanation written by the former clinic, not a description of anyone practising today.