Nurse Practitioner

The Position

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on: 2/27/26, 3/27/26, 4/24/26, 5/22/26, 6/26/26. 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.

Examples of Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of 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;...