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Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners (NP's) are registered nurses with advanced education. With this advanced expertise NP's are prepared to deliver primary health care in many specialty areas. Our NP's specialize in Women's Health Care.
Nurse Practitioners care for your health in a number of ways. They can:
- Perform physical exams
- Diagnose and treat common health problems such as infections
- Treat and manage chronic health care problems
- Facilitate illness prevention to decrease health care costs
- Provide health education to improve or maintain health Teach, advise, and provide family planning and pregnancy care
- Conduct health screening procedures such as Pap smears, breast exams, sport and employment physicals.
- Order and interpret some selected studies
- Perform procedures such as endometrial biopsies
- Prescribe medications
A Nurse Practitioner delivers care in collaboration with physicians and other health care providers. The NP maintains communication with all members of the health care team including the patient. NP's are nationally certified and approved to practice by the Idaho State Board of Nursing.
A Nurse Practitioner is a health professional who:
- Works with people and their lifestyles, not just their diseases
- Takes time to listen and care
- Shares current health care information
- Is committed to quality care
- Is highly qualified and cost effective
Consumer studies cite the personal interest shown by Nurse Practitioners and their ability to decrease the mystery surrounding health care as reasons consumers often prefer Nurse Practitioners.
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| IN MEMORY OF.......Dixilyn Noh, CRNP
Dixi was a woman's health care nurse practitioner who trained at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado in 1981. She also had a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, obtained at Boise State University. She was very dedicated to providing health care for women and was employed with our clinic for over 17 years. Dixi was an Idaho native who was raised on a ranch in southern Idaho. She loved sailing, scuba diving, walking, water color painting and photography.
She will be greatly missed.....
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| Ruth Butterfield, CRNP
Ruth has been employed as a nurse practitioner for over 30 years and is certified as women's health and a family nurse practitioner. She has worked in a wide variety of women's health settings. Her greatest joy in her occupation is discovering the uniqueness of all the women she serves. She enjoys all women's health issues but especially the challenges of perimenopause, menopause, and vulvar irritation problems.
Spending time with her children/family, camping, walking, snowshoeing and reading are some of the activities enjoyed by Ruth.
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Kathleen (Kate) Martin, CRNP
Kate obtained her BS in nursing from Idaho State University. She completed her training as a woman's healthcare nurse practitioner in 1978. She obtained her Master's degree in nursing and adult nurse practitioner training at the University of Portland.
Kate has practiced as a nurse practitioner in the Boise area for 25 years. She particularly enjoys working with adolescent girls and perimenopausal women.
Kate keeps busy outside The Woman's Clinic with 4 married sons and a daughter, 6 grandchildren and a 92 year old mother who lives with her. She enjoys music, arts & crafts reading, movies, Shakespeare Theater, as well as multiple family events.
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Kerri L. Tucker, CRNP
Kerri is a Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner. Kerri received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University, after which she spent 6 years in the United States Air Force specializing in Obstetrical Nursing. In 2004, she received her Master of Science in Nursing in the Perinatal Nurse Practitioner Program from Regis University in Denver. In 2006, she received her Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner certification. |
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