Family medicine/primary care patients in northern BC communities will benefit from program expansion
The B.C. government announced Thursday it will double funding for the family nurse practitioner masters degree program at UNBC from 20 to 40 seats.
“We have such a shortage across Canada and northern B.C. has been particularly hard-hit. So to be able to provide a primary-care provider to so many communities that don’t have a primary-care provider and don’t have a physician or nurse practitioner, they have to travel big distances when they’re not feeling well to get care. They do many of the tasks that doctors do."
They work in hospitals, community clinics, health-care centres, physicians’ offices, long-term care homes and patients’ homes.
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