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Specialized Nurse Practitioner
Examine patients, evaluate patients’ physical and mental health and provide health care.
Your are generous and tolerante. Play a key role in helping meet the complex needs of patients and their families.
Average salary41$ / hour
Description
Nurse practitioners provide a range of health services to patients delivering preventive and continuous care toward the management of patients' health. These professionnals are employed in community health centres, hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres.
Profile(s)
- Investigative
- Realistic
- Social
Each profession is associated with a combination of three initial letters corresponding to one of the six RIASEC profiles. Profile combinations are determined based on skills, fields of interest and certain personality traits.
Main tasks
- Examine patients and take their medical histories and consult with physicians and other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- Inoculate and vaccinate patients
- Advise patients and their families on health care including health promotion, disease, illness and accident prevention
- Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team such as family physicians, therapists and nutritionists to plan, implement, co-ordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families.
Training
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
Sciences infirmières
To register for Sciences infirmières:
- Université de Montréal
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université du Québec en Outaouais
- Université Laval
- Université McGill
More information
More information on this job on IMT online
This trade is in highest demand in these regions:
- Île-de-Montréal
- Outaouais