Day in the Life

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 […]

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! […]