Marissa is board-certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and was granted independent autonomous practice in Florida.

Marissa also holds licenses to practice autonomously in Kentucky, Washington DC, Virgina and New Mexico.

Nurse Practitioners provide a full range of primary, acute, and specialty healthcare services, including:

• Act as a patient’s PCP (primary care provider) and manage their patients' overall care.

• Educate patients on disease prevention, health, wellness, and lifestyle choices.

• Ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic tests such as lab work and x-rays.

• Diagnosing and treating acute and chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, infections, and injuries.

• Prescribing medications and other treatments.

• Ordering patient services, medical equipment and referring to specialists if needed.

• Counseling.

• In the state of Florida, we CANNOT certify for medical use of marijuana.

For more information on what Nurse Practitioners are and what we can do when practicing to the full scope of practice: https://www.aanp.org/about/all-about-nps/whats-a-nurse-practitioner

*In 2020 Florida passed a house bill allowing Nurse Practitioners that met certain criteria autonomous practice. This means to practice to the highest extent of our scope of practice without a collaboration agreement or physician supervision.

Having met all of the required criteria, Marissa was granted independent/autonomous practice in February 2021.

For more information on the autonomous practice law for nurse practitioners please feel free to visit: https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2020/0464.0123

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to message us on our contact form and we would be happy to discuss them.