NP News

EDMONTON, AB (April 30, 2020): The Nurse Practitioners Association of Alberta (NPAA) are pleased with the provincial government’s recent amendments to the Operations and General Regulations of the Nursing Homecare Act (NHA). Nurse practitioners (NPs) have been given the ability work as the primary care providers in nursing homes, assessing residents, prescribing medication as well as offering follow-up care and are working to ensure the changes remain permanent.   Since the start of […]

Speaking with Donna Paradowski, an NP in Edmonton, she recalls getting together at a hotel for an early NPAA meeting around a table with nine or ten people. At the time, to her, the NPAA was a whole new adventure. Donna was in her last year of her Masters program through Athabasca University, and was […]

We had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Teddie Tanguay, Past President of the NPAA, an NP in the Royal Alexandra Hospital Intensive Care Unit. The goal of our interview was to understand some of the complexity of the NP role in this setting, what drives NPs to specialize in this area, and how the Nurse […]

What an exciting horizon – launching a platform for written expression by Nurse Practitioners in Alberta! As the profession grows and develops here in Canada’s west, it is appropriate to have a medium to connect with each other, other professions, and the public whom we serve. Nurse Practitioners are traditionally pioneers, reaching out to remote […]

Nurse Practitioner Association of AlbertaStronger Together Fall 2019 Newsletter Hope everyone had a fun-filled and relaxing summer! This is my last newsletter as NPAA President so I would like to introduce Mary-Elizabeth Cooper who will be the incoming President as of November 1, 2019. Mary-Elizabeth has been the Vice-President for the last 2 years and […]