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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 […]

Tell us a little about yourself and your current practice.  I have been happily married for 27 years to my husband Paul and have one grown daughter, Catherine and son-in-law, Jaydon. I am from Nova Scotia and moved to Alberta in 2005 to take a position as an NP with the Stroke Program at Foothills […]

Name: Peter Godor Practice Area: ICU, STARS and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Number of Years in Practice: 13 years as an NP, 25 years as as RN Describe your entire practice area. STARS fight nurse for 20 years. First 8 years at Calgary Base, then once I moved to Edmonton for RAH ICU, I […]

by Anne Summach, NP One thing that has been clear over the past 10 months, Alberta’s healthcare system is under greater pressure than every before. The COVID-19 pandemic arrived on a foundation of healthcare worker unrest, pending retirements, and threats of physician exodus from the province. Out of the ashes, Nurse Practitioners have risen to […]