NPAA Blog

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 […]

Practice Area: Ambulatory Care Number of Years in Practice: 16 Describe your entire practice area. I have 2 areas of practice at the Strathcona Community Hospital within Ambulatory Care.  I have an independent NP led minor fracture follow up clinic that runs 1.5 days per week. I also the rest of my clinical time doing […]

Why/How did you make the transition from RN work through your advanced degree and into NP practice? As an RN and entering into my advanced degree, I chose the NP stream to work directly with patients. I specifically focused on pediatrics as I wanted to work with the family unit. The otolaryngology NP role was […]