Nurse Practitioner

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on:

3/28/2025, 4/25/2025, 5/23/2025, 6/20/2025, 7/25/2025, 8/22/2025, 9/26/2025, 10/24/2025

Nurse Practitioners provide a range of health care services involving diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and clinical management of patients in a public health center or a public health/field services program; such services include physical examinations, laboratory and screening tests, therapeutic treatments, education, counseling, referral, and clinical duties customarily performed by physicians.

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• Professional principles, procedures, and techniques of nurse practitioners
• State of California laws and regulations on nursing, and nurse practitioner practices
• Symptoms and normal course of acute and chronic illnesses, and their treatment
• Family planning methods
• Medical and health care for pregnant women
• Normal growth and development, and common illnesses of infants and children
• Standard medical record-keeping
• Procedures, techniques, and tests for conducting comprehensive physical examinations
• Techniques and interpretations of standard laboratory tests, X-rays, and basic diagnostic procedures
• Substance abuse symptoms and intervention techniques
• Mental and emotional illness symptoms and intervention techniques
• Medications commonly used for a wide variety of medical conditions, and their effects and contraindications
• Symptoms, prevention, reporting requirements, and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect
• Normal and abnormal family dynamics
• Community resources for medical care, mental health care, and social services
• Differing cultural, religious, social, and economic factors affecting community medical care clients
• Proper handling and administering of medications
• Proper handling of laboratory samples and contaminated items
• Causes, control, detection, prevention, and treatment of common communicable diseases including sexually transmitted diseases
• Techniques of patient and family counseling

• Techniques of interviewing
• Techniques of conducting training sessions

• Effectively communicate with clients of various social, cultural, economic, and education backgrounds
• Work cooperatively with other medical care providers
• Effectively intervene in cases of mental illness, substance abuse, and adult/child abuse and neglect
• Effectively train others
• Gain cooperation of patients in treating communicable and environmentally-based illnesses
• Maintain patient confidentiality
• Accurately evaluate and diagnose medical conditions, including obtaining and assessing medical histories
• Work independently and apply sound medical judgement and department protocols in treatment, treatment planning, and referrals to physicians
• Recognize and take immediate action in emergency and immediate need cases
• Communicate clearly and concisely orally and in writing

• Employment applications and all documentation requested in this announcement must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the cut-off date.
• Employment Services is not responsible for any issues or delays caused by an applicant's computer or web browser. Applicants will be automatically logged out if they have not submitted their applications and all documentation prior to 5:00 p.m. on the cut-off date.
• Your application should highlight all relevant education, training, and experience, and clearly indicate how you meet the minimum qualifications for the position as of the cut-off date.
• Application information must be current, concise and related to the requirements in this job announcement. You may only apply for this recruitment once. Duplicate and incomplete applications will be disqualified.
• A resume may be included with your application, however it will not substitute for the information requested on the application.

• Supplemental Questionnaires must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the cut-off date. Employment Services is not responsible for any issues or delays caused by an applicant's computer or web browser. Applicants will be automatically logged out if they have not submitted their applications and all documentation prior to 5:00 p.m. on the cut-off date.
• The supplemental questions are designed to elicit specific information regarding a candidate's experience, education, and training. Responses should be consistent with the information on your application and are subject to verification.
• Please provide place of employment, pertinent dates, and concise, descriptive and detailed information for each question.
• If a job included responsibilities applicable to several questions, separate the different functions of the job to answer all the questions completely.
• Resumes or referral to the application or other questionnaire responses will not be accepted in lieu of completing each question.
• If you have no experience, write "no experience" for the appropriate question.
• For many individuals, it is more efficient to develop responses to the supplemental questions in a word processing document and then paste them into the final document to be submitted. Changes or corrections to your Supplemental Questionnaire cannot be made once your application packet has been submitted.
• If the Supplemental Questionnaire is used in the Formula Rate exam, failure to complete all of the questions or incomplete responses will result in a lower score. While scoring the Supplemental Questionnaire, the candidate's application and/or attachments will not be reviewed, therefore, a candidate's responses to the questions should be accurate, thorough, detailed, and complete.

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