Nurse Practitioner
A registered nurse provider with a graduate degree in nursing prepared for advanced practice involving independent and interdependent decision making and direct accountability for clinical judgment across the health care continuum or in a certified specialty. (2) A registered nurse who has completed additional training beyond basic nursing education and who provides primary health care services in accordance with state nurse practice laws or statutes. Tasks performed by nurse practitioners vary with practice requirements mandated by geographic, political, economic, and social factors. Nurse practitioner specialists include, but are not limited to, family nurse practitioners, gerontological nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse practitioners, obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners, and school nurse practitioners.
Nurse Practitioners in Waurika, OK
Primary Care Practitioner
Primary Care Doctors in Waurika, OK
Adolescent Medicine Family Practitioner
Ms. Karen E. Howard is an Adolescent Medicine Family Practitioner in Waurika, OK
with special training and skill in providing healthcare for adolescents.
As an Adolescent Medicine Family Practitioner, Karen E. Howard, FNP performs
services within a family context. Adolescent Family Medicine is
medical care of patients in their late teens to early twenties. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Adolescent Medicine Family Doctors include injuries, physical and mental developmental delays, menstrual disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Adolescent Medicine Family Doctors
include annual physicals, injury treatment, medicine prescriptions, and pregnancy and STD testing.
A family medicine physician with multidisciplinary training in the unique physical, psychological and social characteristics of adolescents and their health care problems and needs.
Adolescent Medicine Family Doctors in Waurika, OK
