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Nurse Practitioner

Job Description:

Registered Nurses who desire advancement in their field or a new level of challenge may become a Nurse Practitioner. Nurse Practitioners are registered professional nurses who function in an advanced nursing practice role and a delegated medical role.  Nurse practitioners have acquired additional knowledge and skills in an advanced nursing practice specialty and collaborate with physicians to deliver medical care.

Salary: $85,300 to $145,100

Education and Professional Requirements:

An applicant for a license to practice as a nurse practitioner must be a registered nurse, complete an approved advanced registered nurse practitioner program, complete thirty contact hours of education in pharmacotherapies, and pass a national certifying exam.

Career Category: Nursing

Schools:
  • Samford University – Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing
  • Troy University
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham – School of Nursing
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville – College of Nursing
  • University of Mobile
  • University of South Alabama – College of Nursing

Degree Required: Master’s Degree

Professional Organizations:

American Academy of Nursing and the American Nurses Association


American Association of Nurse Practioners
512-442-4262

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