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Practice Area: Wabamun Medical Clinic PCN            Years of Practice: 2 What prompted you to consider moving into an Advanced Practice role in Nursing?  Even during my RN education, I planned to become a Nurse Practitioner.  I had the pleasure of being taught by Nurse Practitioners for two of my courses at the University of […]

By Daris Klemmer Part 1 So here I am again the oldest NP taking on a slightly not exciting topic. However, I believe NP governance to be of great importance especially as more and more NP roles are created within our major health organization in Alberta-AHS/Covenant and the potential for a great number of NP […]

Describe your setting: location, volumes, demographics etc. Airdrie Urgent Care Centre (AUCC) is a 13 bed Urgent Care and is the only acute care accessible for citizens of Airdrie and surrounding areas including north Calgary, as there is no hospital. On a usual day, the AUCC will see anywhere from 90-110 patients and sometimes up […]

What prompted you to consider moving into an Advanced Practice role in Nursing?  I had always been interested in furthering my education after I completed my BScN.  Once I started as a new grad RN in Denver, CO I worked with some NPs and decided that was something I was interested in pursuing one day! […]

What prompted you to consider moving into an Advanced Practice role in Nursing?   To be honest my dissatisfaction with the health care system prompted me to move into an Advanced Practice nursing role. I felt like I was not making a difference to my patients in my job. I previously worked in the hospital, and […]