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363L00000X

363L00000XNurse 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.

NUCC taxonomy25.1