Health care
Nurse practitioner
$80.00 to $250.00 hourly
Pay is above the local median for this work ($60.78 an hour; Job Bank, 2024)
What the posting asks for
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Hours and terms
- Part time, Casual employment
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Nurse practitioners usually require a master's degree in nursing; or completion of a nursing program with additional advanced or extended primary health care nursing education; and several years of practice as a registered nurse.
- Registration with a regulatory body is required for nurse practitioners in all provinces and territories.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Nurse practitioners (NOC 31302). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- 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
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients
- Advise patients and their families on health care including health promotion, disease, illness and accident prevention
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team such as family physicians, therapists and nutritionists to plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families
- Perform a patient advocacy role
About the employer
- Region: Thompson–Okanagan Region
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From Job Bank.