Overview
Languages
English
Education
- College/CEGEP
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Work setting
- Hospital or home for the aged
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Death counselling
- Advise patients on health care
- Examine patients and take their medical histories and consult with physicians and other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Formulate and implement treatment plans and monitor patients' progress
- Perform or order diagnostic tests and interpret results
- Provide health maintenance education
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Licensure as a Nurse Practitioner by the province/territory of work
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Fast-paced environment
- Manual dexterity
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player