Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner
An Air Force women's healthcare nurse practitioner (WHNP) is an advanced practice medical surgical nurse who works in the ambulatory care setting. As a WHNP, you will provide primary health care to both obstetric and gynecologic patients from menarche through their life cycle. Your privileges include obtaining medical histories, performing physical exams, and establishing medical diagnoses; ordering and interpreting diagnostic studies; initiating appropriate treatment, to include drug therapy, within privileged scope of care. Also perform comprehensive family planning counseling, cancer screening, STI care, and procedures (if credentialed to do so, such as IUD insertion, colposcopy, and biopsies of the vulva, vagina, cervix, and endometrium). The practice setting the Air Force WHNP ranges from solo practice in a clinic to group practice in a medical center.
