Overview

Specialized learning opportunities teach you to advocate for patients, offer comfort and care from within a comprehensive healthcare system.

This program also allows nurses with a Masters degree in Nursing to complete the Nurse Practitioner Program courses. Students must apply to the MScN Program in order to receive advanced standing.

A nurse practitioner:

• Is an experienced registered nurse with advanced education, skills, and extended class (EC) registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Has the independent authority to perform controlled acts beyond those available to Registered Nurses (RNs), including ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, communicating a diagnosis, prescribing pharmaceuticals, performing specific procedures, and referring to specialists.
• Provides health promotion, disease prevention, and illness management for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations
• Often acts as the individual’s or family’s first point of contact with the health care system, similar to the role of a Family Physician
• Works collaboratively with other health care professionals to support the health of their clients

Laurentian University is part of a consortium of nine Ontario universities that offer the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program (PHCNP). Students register and learn in their home universities.

Our designated geographical boundaries extend from Sudbury, north to Moosonee and Moose Factory, northwest to Hornpayne, west to Wawa, east to Deep River and Lindsay, and South to Barrie. As such, our program is offered largely by distance delivery to accommodate the needs of students residing in Northern Ontario.

The program incorporates problem-based and self-directed learning, simulation, and competency-based strategies to meet the critical competencies for NP practice. 

Learn more about the Nurse Practitioner Primary Health Care Program expectations

The Nurse Practitioner Primary Health Care Program at Laurentian University is approved by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Current graduates from this program are eligible to apply for Extended Class registration as a Nurse Practitioner in Ontario.

Key Features

Dive into a profession that includes an exciting blend of science, mathematics, psychology, anthropology, organizational management and sociology.

Available to study full- or part-time, using a hybrid format of online and onsite seminars, and must be completed in 3 years.

Gain hands-on experience through clinical placements.