Northern Health Secures 5 Nurse Practitioners
Sunday, January 27, 2013 @ 11:48 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Five new nurse practitioner positions have been added to Northern Health. The positions are among 45 approved by the Ministry of Health.
The nurse practitioners will be working in primary health-care settings, including medical clinics, mental health clinics, residential care and First Nations’ health services. These nurse practitioners are expected to start working as soon as possible, once contracts are signed with health authorities.
The five positions approved for Northern Health are:
Central Interior Native Health Society
The addition of a nurse practitioner will provide primary care in the downtown core area of Prince George to the marginalized and underserved population. The nurse practitioner will be able to work within a multidisciplinary team to provide quality holistic care, including appropriate referrals to specialty services and community resources.
Carrier Sekani Family Services
The nurse practitioner will complement existing health care services that are provided by Carrier Sekani Family Services, First Nations Inuit Heath Branch and the Northern Health Authority.
Nak’azdli and Tl’azt’en
The nurse practitioner will be working in two communities; Nak’azdli and Tl’azt’en ensuring that patients with chronic diseases, mental health and addictions, and pre‐natal patients have secure access to medical care.
Old Masset
The nurse practitioner will fill the gap between elder’s health, home support workers and consistent higher level nurse care, chronic disease management, prenatal services and mental health and addictions.
Prince Rupert – Hartley Bay, Kitkatla and Lax Kw’alaams
The nurse practitioner position will allow patients with high needs to access consistent primary health care through an interdisciplinary health care team including general practitioners, diabetic educators, physiotherapy, and liaison with the local hospital.
The new nurse practitioners are being funded by a $22.2-million initiative, first announced in May, which committed to fund 190 nurse practitioner positions over the next three fiscal years.
Comments
This is wonderful news, always thought the gap would be filled earlier than this.
Nurses are basically Doctors without the attitude, and no, you can’t tell me different, had too many nurses clue in a doctor to what’s wrong with the patient.
Grizz…..you need to look up the job description of a nurse practitioner. Their qualifications are well beyond a nurse!
You’re right, just wish we had a lot more of them.
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