363L00000X — Nurse Practitioner
- Grouping
- Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers
- Classification
- Nurse Practitioner
- Specialization
- None — this code IS the classification
- Section
- Individual
Definition
(1) A registered nurse provider with a graduate degree in nursing prepared for advanced practice involving independent and interdependent decision making and direct accountability for clinical judgment across the health care continuum or in a certified specialty. (2) A registered nurse who has completed additional training beyond basic nursing education and who provides primary health care services in accordance with state nurse practice laws or statutes. Tasks performed by nurse practitioners vary with practice requirements mandated by geographic, political, economic, and social factors. Nurse practitioner specialists include, but are not limited to, family nurse practitioners, gerontological nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse practitioners, obstetric-gynecologic nurse practitioners, and school nurse practitioners.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Nurse Practitioner
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 363LA2100XAcute Care
- 363LA2200XAdult Health
- 363LC0200XCritical Care Medicine
- 363LC1500XCommunity Health
- 363LF0000XFamily
- 363LG0600XGerontology
- 363LN0000XNeonatal
- 363LN0005XNeonatal, Critical Care
- 363LP0200XPediatrics
- 363LP0222XPediatrics, Critical Care
- 363LP0808XPsychiatric/Mental Health
- 363LP1700XPerinatal
- 363LP2300XPrimary Care
- 363LS0200XSchool
- 363LW0102XWomen's Health
- 363LX0001XObstetrics & Gynecology
- 363LX0106XOccupational Health