NP's in the News

Bringing care home for Aboriginal women. New outreach clinics put primary care within walking distance. Right off the top, there would be the hour’s drive each way to Barrhead or Edmonton, then more hours spent in medical waiting rooms or labs, often simply to request paperwork or a blood test. In the winter, icy highways could dangerously complicate matters further.“It could easily eat up my entire day,” she says. “I couldn’t plan on anything else.” ... click here for full story.

Letters in Response to the News Articles below

• NPAA Jan 18 - AHS media release post meeting
• NPAA response from Deb Gordon -NP Layoffs in Southern Alberta
• NPAA Southern Alberta layoffs

CBC News

• AHS rescinds decision: AHS says it needs a better understanding of the potential impact of its earlier decision.
• Airdrie meeting: Nurse practitioners are optimistic about their jobs after meeting with health officials in Airdrie
• Interview: Nurse practitioner: Donna Claire, past president of the Nurse Practitioner Association of Alberta, joins CBC News Calgary host Nirmala Naidoo live in studio.
• Urgent care centre layoffs: Nurse practitioners at two urgent care centres in southern Alberta have been told they are being laid off because of upcoming budget pressures.
• Media release from CBC radio regarding the layoffs that occurred in Southern Alberta.

Global News

• Nurse practitioner layoffs Wed, Jan 16 : Eight nurse practitioners at the Airdrie and Cochrane urgent care centres are worried they could lose their jobs. On Wednesday AHS insists the decision isn't final. As Mia Sosiak reports, the nurses have already received layoff notices.

CTV News

• AHS backtracks on nursing cuts

Other

• Bellingham nurse practitioner bicycles to treat her patients at their homes and workplaces
• Ellen Novak (10/10)
• Improving access in Cold Lake: Nurse practitioner a new resource for Primary Care Network
• Introducing a Nurse Practitioner: Experiences in a Rural Alberta Family Practice Clinic
• Joanne Stewart (12/10)
• Neonatal nurse practitioners set up in St. Albert community hospital: Region’s baby boom boosts need for expertise
• Noreen Antonishyn in Vital Signs
• Nurses may help some overweight kids
• Nurse-practitioners don’t need turf battles
• Nurse practitioners, midwives could get drug-prescribing powers in some provinces
• Nurse practitioners fill 'unique niche'
• Pioneering new services: Home Care nurse practitioner opens doors in Brooks
• Press release: Calgary doctor says 'new' family care clinics already exist
• Specialized clinics help patients with severe liver disease (video) ‘They teach you how to deal with this disease’
• Taking health care to the highway: Health care clinic keeps truck drivers on the road
• Transitional Care May Cut Hospital Readmission Rates