Health Sciences 2200A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics, Health Promotion
21 Oct 2016
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A nurse practitioner (np) is a nurse with advanced university education who provides comprehensive, accessible and effective care to patients of all ages. Nps focus on the mental, social, physical, and emotional aspects of their patients health. Responsibilities: diagnose and treat illness and injuries and do physical checkups, immunizations, can get and interpret diagnostic tests and screenings, health promotion, treat acute and chronic conditions. 10 steps to becoming registered as a nurse practitioner: need a bachelors degree in nursing. The program must be accredited by the canadian association of. School of nursing (casn: have to be registered or eligible to register in the general class in ontario. Np"s are in the extended class which have more requirements than the. General class: have to complete an accredited np education program to get a np specialty. There are 3 types of np specialty certificates: There are 22 accredited np education programs in ontario.
