Clinical Nurse Specialists & Nurse Practitioners

Margo Bettger-Hahn: Clinical Nurse Specialist
The clinical nurse specialist is a guide for you on your health-care journey – an expert practitioner who knows the system, helps you navigate your way, and ensures that you receive the care and information you and your family need.

Mary Driedger: Clinical Nurse Specialist
Clinical nurse specialists have the academic preparation, research skills and experience to be able to implement evidence-based practice changes and provide patients with the best care.

Grace MacConnell: Clinical Nurse Specialist
I feel that clinical nurse specialists are often interpreters for children and their families as they try to navigate their way through the complexities of the health-care system.

Martha Mackay: Clinical Nurse Specialist
A career path that allows nurses to remain involved in clinical practice at an important and influential level is good for patients.

Martha Vickers: Nurse Practitioner
NPs can improve access to health care where it may have been limited, and NPs can work with Canadians to maintain and improve their health. That’s an ongoing investment.

NP, Clinique Médicale Nepisiguit

Mona Clarke and Donna Parsons: Nurse Practitioners
Nurses have always worked well as members of interprofessional teams. We are quite used to consulting with and referring to appropriate health-care providers. That’s why the transition into the role of an NP, a role that is grounded in team work, was easy.

NPs, Dr. Charles L. Legrow Health Centre Hospital

Katie de Leon-Demare: Nurse Practitioner
I wanted to be an NP because I felt that the discipline of nursing with advanced education and extended practice could offer more holistic care to clients and would be more fulfilling personally.

NP, River Avenue Community Health Centre

Faith Forster: Nurse Practitioner
Co-ordination of care from admission and rehabilitation to discharge and followup care helps us provide ‘the right care at the right time.’

NP, Acute Care Orthopaedic Unit, St. Paul’s Hospital

Frank MacDonald: Nurse Practitioner
Frank was a lifesaver for me. From the very beginning, he demonstrated that he was knowledgeable, caring and warm. He made me feel comfortable so that I could discuss any concerns with him. From my perspective, NPs have a great understanding and respect of the role of every member of the health-care team.

NP, Seniors Health, Calgary Health Region