Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment are all services you’ll receive when you visit a primary care clinic. Let’s look at how your healthcare provider gets you healthy and help you stay that way for the long term. Primary Care Is About Assessment and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Conditions If you have a life-threatening medical emergency or an illness or injury which cannot wait, you need to go to the emergency room. For everything else, your primary care provider is your first and best ... [Read More]
Nurse Practitioners
7 Unbeatable Benefits of Primary Care
Primary care is care provided by a healthcare professional who helps you manage your day-to-day health. Primary care providers (PCPs) include doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They all provide primary care at your yearly exam, or annual wellness checkup, as well as any time you are sick and need treatment. Let’s talk about some of the key benefits of primary care, why family nurse practitioners are a great choice to be your PCP, and where you can go in Kent for total ... [Read More]
Women’s Health: What Every Nurse Practitioner Wants You to Know
The role of nurse practitioners has exponentially evolved over the decades. NPs have now become a crucial part of the constant change, however subtle, in patients’ decisions about who should provide their primary health care. This is, in large part, due to the capability and versatility of nurse practitioners to meet diverse and ever-increasing patient needs. More and more patients—especially women— are now becoming increasingly cognizant of and reliant on the capabilities of nurse ... [Read More]
The Challenges of Kids Returning to School: How the Nurse Practitioners at FamilyCare of Kent Can Help
The weather is changing, summer is over, and – as in years past – kids are going back to school. However, we all know that 2020 isn’t like every other year. Your children probably finished their last school year remotely; and as they return, they can expect a lot of changes in the effort to restrict the spread of COVID-19. Whether this is your child’s first year in school or they are returning to a new grade level, the new school year is always met with hopeful anticipation and a little ... [Read More]
