Nurse practitioner - primary health care

• Work Term: Permanent


• Work Language: English


• Hours: 37.5 hours per week


• Education: Master's degree


• Experience: Experience an asset

Work setting

• Health care institution, facility or clinic

Tasks

• Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team
• Provide advice and guidance regarding care for newborns and young infants
• Advise patients on health care
• Examine patients and take their medical histories and consult with physicians and other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
• Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
• Conduct patient interviews, physical assessments and take medical histories
• Provide health maintenance education

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Licensure as a Nurse Practitioner by the province/territory of work