The President of the Registered Nurses Union believes that nurse practitioners across the province will have an important role to play in collaborative care clinics being set out across the province.
This is Nurse Practitioners’ Week.
RNU President Yvette Coffey describes the improvements NPs could make in the delivery of primary care as “monumental.”
She says they are pushing for more NP positions in the province, which could have a great impact on things like the collaborative care clinics that are being set up in the metro region.
Coffey says the province needs more of those clinics. She says they allow nurse practitioners to work independently and help the nearly 100,000 people in the province who do not have a family doctor.
