Overview

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

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.

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

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.