{"id":584376,"date":"2026-04-05T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:17:09","slug":"nurses-union-encouraged-by-expanded-role-for-nurse-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584376\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Union Encouraged by Expanded Role for Nurse Practitioners"},"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\/2026\/04\/rnu-registered-nurses-union-president-yvette-coffey-november-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Nurses Union Encouraged by Expanded Role for Nurse Practitioners\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">RNU President Yvette Coffey (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Registered Nurses Union says it is encouraged by work being carried out by the provincial government to expand opportunities for nurse practitioners, including the development of a funding model that supports team-based care and improved access for patients.<\/p>\n<p>President Yvette Coffey says there\u2019s more work to do, but she says the path forward is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa says provincial and territorial health plans are going to start covering the services of nurse practitioners, pharmacists and midwives who provide primary care.<\/p>\n<p>Coffey warns against division within the health care system after the College of Family Physicians of Canada expressed some concern, indicating that family physicians should not be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>She says the college is \u201cright about one thing,\u201d that team-based care works best when every provider can use their full skills and training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; RNU President Yvette Coffey (Facebook) The Registered Nurses Union says it is encouraged by work being carried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-584376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584376","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=584376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}