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Nurses at Midwestern
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What Is a Nurse Practitioner?
A nurse practitioner (also referred to as a “NP”) is a licensed healthcare provider who works under the supervision of a physician. These clinicians have obtained masters’ degrees in nursing and are certified to practice in partnership with a physician.
NPs at CTCA are trained in oncology. They have extensive experience in providing education about cancer and cancer treatments at a level each patient can fully understand.
NPs are able to:
- Conduct physical exams
- Manage cancer symptoms and treat side effects
- Order and interpret test results
- Write prescriptions, including for chemotherapy and other cancer-related treatments
- Counsel on preventative healthcare
- Exercise autonomy in decision making
- Provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services
- Contribute to clinical education and research initiatives
How Do NPs Benefit You?
NPs at CTCA hospitals:
- Extend our physicians’ ability to care for your individualized needs
- Enable responsiveness, so that you are more quickly able to see a medical professional
- Ensure up-to-date status reports are relayed to your physician
- Expand and enhance your scope of care
Who Are the NPs at Midwestern?
Meet the highly trained NPs who help care for our patients at CTCA at Midwestern Regional Medical Center:
