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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]