Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Mrs. Roberta S. Hardman is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Azle, TX
with special training and skill in diagnosing and treating a variety of acute but severe illnesses, sometimes over long periods.
As an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Roberta S. Hardman, APRN, AGACNP-BC, MSN performs
treatment for critically ill patients. Acute Care Nurse Practice is
practiced in emergency rooms, urgent care centers, intensive care units, surgical units, and nursing homes. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Acute Care Nurse Practitioners include flu complications, broken bones, concussions, heart attacks, seizures, or shock.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Acute Care Nurse Practitioners
include ordering and performing diagnostic tests, creating treatment plans, applying sutures and splinting broken bones, prescribing medication, monitoring treatments and medical equipment, referring patients to specialists, collaborating with specialists, and discharging patients.
Acute Care Nurse Practitioners in Azle, TX
Rural General Acute Care Hospital
Rural General Acute Care Hospitals in Azle, TX
Infectious Disease Practitioner
Mrs. Roberta S. Hardman is an Infectious Disease Practitioner in Azle, TX
with special training and skill in detecting and treating bacterial, viral, fungal, and tropical infections.
As an Infectious Disease Practitioner, Roberta S. Hardman, APRN, AGACNP-BC, MSN performs
blood tests, microscopies, blood sensitivity cultures, sputum, urine, stool, joint fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid testing as well as X-ray, CT, ultrasound and MRI scans. Infectious Disease Medicine is
a medical specialty that diagnoses, controls and treats both nosocomial (hospital-acquired) and out-patient based infections. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Infectious Disease Doctors include antibiotic-resistant infections, difficult to diagnose infections, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Infectious Disease Doctors
include examining rashes, lymph nodes, chest, abdomen and genital areas; testing blood, urine, stool, joint fluid and crebrospinal fluid and examining X-ray, CT, ultrasound, and MRI imaging; prescribing antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, anti-parasitics, or botanic medicine to fight detected infections.
An internist who deals with infectious diseases of all types and in all organ systems. Conditions requiring selective use of antibiotics call for this special skill. This physician often diagnoses and treats AIDS patients and patients with fevers which have not been explained. Infectious disease specialists may also have expertise in preventive medicine and travel medicine.
Infectious Disease Doctors in Azle, TX
Skilled Nursing Facility
A skilled nursing facility is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation; (2) Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis.
Skilled Nursing Facilities in Azle, TX
