Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Victoria, BC
Are you open to innovation and the changing landscape of primary care? If your answer is yes, read on to learn more about the role of nurse practitioners within the Victoria Primary Care Network.
Role and Facility Description
- Providing team-based care within a network of primary care providers and expanded services to meet the ambulatory needs of patients
- Providing services via face-to-face appointments, telephone consultations and virtual care options where available, and as appropriate, based on the clinical circumstances and consistent with how the services are provided at the facility in question
- Providing direct patient care, indirect patient care, and clinical administrative services
Scope of Care
Includes, but is not limited to:
- NPs will provide direct patient care consisting of, but not limited to, consultations, physical examination, diagnosis of disease, minor surgery, advising, counseling, and treating as required to provide non-urgent episodic care for conditions, illnesses and injuries
- Basic in-office primary care services for non life-threatening illnesses or injuries that require treatment
- Assessment and treatment for mental health conditions, respiratory, and management of chronic diseases
- Referral for specialist consultation when appropriate
- Patient-specific conferences, team meetings, telephone consultations, and chart or report writing
- Arranging for appropriate follow-up care, including assessments, procedures, investigations, and/or therapy as may be appropriate
- For patients transferring to an acute care site, following medical transfer processes and protocols, including preparing NP notes to accompany patients
Qualifications
- Registered membership in good standing with the BC College of Nursing Professionals and the Nurse Practitioner will conduct her/his practice consistent with the conditions of such registration
- Enrolment in the Medical Services Plan for the purposes of Encounter Reporting
- All other licences, qualifications, privileges, and credentials required to deliver the services
Hear what others have to say about working with VPCN
The collaboration between my physician’s office and the PCN social worker has been invaluable in the maintenance of my health. I've been supported and connected to resources in the community, which have been stabilizing factors in my life during a health crisis. I don’t know where I’d be right now without this collaboration, and I’m so grateful for them and this service.
