{"id":275105,"date":"2025-11-10T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275105\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:39:11","slug":"theres-an-np-for-that-nurse-practitioner-week-declared-in-nl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275105\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s an NP for That,\u2019 Nurse Practitioner Week Declared in NL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/health-minister-lela-evans-premier-tony-wakeham-and-rnu-president-yvette-coffey.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"'There's an NP for That,' Nurse Practitioner Week Declared in NL\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Minister Lela Evans, Premier Tony Wakeham and RNU President Yvette Coffey (Government of NL)<\/p>\n<p>This is Nurse Practitioner Week in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Registered Nurses Union is marking the occasion by <a href=\"https:\/\/rnunl.ca\/np-for-that\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highlighting and celebrating<\/a> the role of nurse practitioners in providing accessible, high quality health care across the province.<\/p>\n<p>The official proclamation was signed late last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/health-minister-lela-evans-premier-tony-wakeham-and-jessica-peddle-of-the-nlnpa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-284371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/health-minister-lela-evans-premier-tony-wakeham-and-jessica-peddle-of-the-nlnpa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-284371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Minister Lela Evans, Premier Tony Wakeham and Jessica Peddle of the NLNPA (Gov\u2019t of NL)<\/p>\n<p>RNU President Yvette Coffey says nurse practitioners are able to diagnose, prescribe and manage chronic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>She says if the province wants to build a stronger more sustainable public health care system, then it must invest in the expansion of nurse practitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Health Minister Lela Evans, Premier Tony Wakeham and RNU President Yvette Coffey (Government of NL) This is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-275105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}