Clinical Director at the Ingersoll Nurse Practitioner Clinic Sue Tobin says they provide a lot of the same services as a family doctor.
INGERSOLL - It's Nurse Practitioner Week.
They are celebrating at the Ingersoll Nurse Practitioner Clinic. Clinical Director and Nurse Practitioner Sue Tobin says they provide all of the basic services that would expect to have met in primary care.
"So that would mean an assessment of acute and chronic health conditions, ordering diagnostic tests, referring to specialists, doing physicals and writing prescriptions."
Tobin says the difference with nurse practitioners is they are approaching that type of care from a prevention and a more holistic model, that you might get elsewhere.
"So what that means is that when someone comes in and they have diabetes for example, we are looking at all of the things that impact their diabetes, so how does that impact their mental health or their social environment, are they able to afford the different types of food that they need, that sort of thing."
Most nurse practitioners work in a multi disciplinary team environment. In Ingersoll they have two counsellors, a chronic disease coordinator, two RPN's and a consulting physician because their are things that are out of the nurse practitioners scope of practice.
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