Nurse Practitioner:
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) role at our clinic is essential for ensuring patients receive comprehensive primary care. NPs can conduct periodic health exams, including well baby visits, and diagnose illnesses by ordering necessary tests such as blood, urine, and imaging. They are authorized to write prescriptions to help treat acute illness or injury. NPs provide education on managing chronic and acute diseases and offer prenatal and postnatal care. Patients may be referred to other health care providers or specialists, as needed. NPs also review test results, participate in the plan of care, monitor patient progress, and provide counseling on preventive health care. They offer immunizations and update preventive care, including breast cancer, colorectal cancer, cervical cancer, bone mineral density, and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Contact us to schedule an appointment with our Nurse Practitioner.
Reth Bun, NP
Registered Nurse:
Mary Gutierrez Garcia, RN
As part of our healthcare team, our Registered Nurse (RN) can help you learn how to manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and lung disease. The RN can also provide education on how to manage your medications and health symptoms, including COVID-19 symptoms and current guidelines. Additionally, our RN can administer immunizations such as routine childhood and adult vaccines, allergy shots, TB tests, and flu shots. They can also perform ear flushing, plantar wart treatment using liquid nitrogen, and suture/staple removals/wound care/change dressings (bandages). Our RN will take your vital signs such as blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and oxygen saturation. They can provide smoking cessation counseling under the STOP Program and oversee well baby visits and periodic health exams. Our RN can also provide preventative care such as mammograms, FIT, and pap smear tests. Finally, our RN can administer COVID-19 vaccines to eligible patients.