Nurse Practitioners provide comprehensive, accessible, and coordinated family health care services through Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics to populations who have difficulty accessing a primary care provider (i.e. unattached patients).
Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics deliver:
- Comprehensive primary care to patients in the community ensuring continuity of care;
- Holistic care that addresses all needs of each patient;
- Enhanced health promotion;
- Chronic Disease and illness management and prevention;
- Health education and training;
- Care coordination and navigation of the health care system;
- Full time Social Worker available through the Clinic; and
- Integrated care within the community through established partnerships.
Registered Nurses provide additional:
- Community lab services to the general public who have a physician requisition; and
- Education and workshops.
Social Workers also provide services to the general public either through physician or self-referrals:
- Counselling services;
- Community referrals;
- Assistance in filling out government forms; and
- Advocate on behalf of their clients.