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About Pat
What is a Nurse Practitioner?
The obstetric-gynecologic/women’s health nurse practitioner is a registered nurse who has successfully obtained the minimum of a master’s degree from a formal obstetric-gynecologic/women’s health nurse practitioner educational program. This practitioner has acquired special knowledge and skills in health promotion and maintenance, disease prevention, physical and psychosocial assessment, and management of health and illness in the primary care of women. The obstetric-gynecologic/women’s health nurse practitioner provides such care in collaboration with physicians, as well as other members of the health care team.
After completing the education program, the candidate must be licensed by the state in which they plan to practice. Voluntary certification is a process by which a nongovernmental, professional agency confers a credential attesting that an individual has met predetermined standards for specialty practice. Serving as an added credential beyond basic nursing education and licensure, voluntary certification is designed to promote and maintain quality care by nurses who have demonstrated knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge in specified settings.
Pat News, RNC, NP, MSN
I knew I wanted to be a nurse at the young age of 12. Since becoming a nurse, my nursing career has given me the opportunities to work in many different areas of nursing including ICU, an out-patient multi-specialty facility, home health, management, education, student health, a physician-owned private practice, as a partner in a private practice, and now as owner of my own private practice.
Education
- Master of Science, Nursing
California State University, Long Beach
December, 1994 - Baccalaureate of Science, Nursing
California State University Statewide Nursing
Program, May, 1989 - Ob/Gyn Real-Time Ultrasound Course
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1988 - Certificate in Women’s Health
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance
1983 - Diploma in Nursing
Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing
1975
Certification
- Board Certification in Women’s Health
National Certification Corporation, 1984.
Valid until June 30, 2011 - Board Certified Obstetric Sonographer
Association of Registered Diagnostic and Medical Sonographers, 1992.
Valid until December 31, 2010
Our Staff
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