Joyce Lovas, APRN

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• Clinical Nurse Specialist

  Home Health

  Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers

  Primary

  Definition to come...

  Taxonomy code 364SH0200X

• General Acute Care Hospital

  Hospitals

  An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.

  Taxonomy code 282N00000X

• Nurse Practitioner

  Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers

  (1) 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.

  Taxonomy code 363L00000X

• Clinical Nurse Specialist

  Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers

  A registered nurse who, through a graduate degree program in nursing, or through a formal post-basic education program or continuing education courses and clinical experience, is expert in a specialty area of nursing practice within one or more of the components of direct patient/client care, consultation, education, research and administration.

  Taxonomy code 364S00000X

• Clinical Nurse Specialist

  Community Health/Public Health

  Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers

  Definition to come...

  Taxonomy code 364SC1501X