Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The positions of nurse practitioners are needed in the regional centres where they’re able to perform their full nurse practitioner jobs. Nurse practitioners are brought in and educated to become nurse practitioners so that they can be out in the field and providing much needed relief like physician-type of work. The nurse practitioners, when they end up wishing to remain in Yellowknife, do end up as registered nurses on many occasions because they have doctors in Yellowknife. I think seven of our nine nurse practitioners are located here in Yellowknife.
Tom Beaulieu on Question 62-17(2): Employment Of Nurse Practitioner Graduates
In the Legislative Assembly on February 13th, 2012. See this statement in context.
Question 62-17(2): Employment Of Nurse Practitioner Graduates
Oral Questions
February 12th, 2012
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