Nurse practitioners are highly trained and valued medical professionals. By enabling them to open their own clinics, we are ensuring Albertans can more easily access the care they need. This is a significant improvement in our primary health care system that will benefit patients and help improve the overall... health and health outcomes of Alberta families.show more

Highly trained compared to what? NPs have 2 years after their undergraduate degree, Family Physicians have 6.

Use Actuvi to grow your health practice with digital care and remote monitoring. Increase revenue by $500,000+, improve care, and provide your patients with a convenient experience to keep them with you over a telehealth app that pushes them to random doctors.

Awesome! Every little bit of improvement helps. Great work Smith and UCP!!

This is an awful idea. They are not physicians. They carry little to no weight medically which causes disasters in insurance situations.

@Alberta_UCP We need doctors, not more nurses or NPs.

Soon, the janitors will be running the schools.

So, first chase out family docs creatingna shortage, then replace them with lower qualified and lower paid NPs. 🤔 What does that sound like?

Substandard healthcare isn't a solution, Danielle.

Not trained as a doctor = not capable as a doctor. NPs Not Physicians. And frankly, the defamatory nature of the NP attack on both family doctors, and the former minister is certainly drawing some significant legal attention

Nurse Practitioners are basically Paradoctors and can learn everything they need on the job to close the gap and become as competent and efficient as MD's. We need to embrace the apprentice model like the UK to keep costs down this is fantastic 👏👏👏

I don't agree with nurse practitioner clinics. A nurse practitioner doesn't need to have an LPN or RN license. They're just not educated enough to be in that position I would go for an LPN or an RN running the clinic but definitely not a nurse practitioner