{"id":895493,"date":"2026-09-14T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895493\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:10:09","slug":"province-to-review-role-of-nurse-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895493\/","title":{"rendered":"Province to Review Role of Nurse Practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government is looking for a consultant to review the role of nurse practitioners. <\/p>\n<p>They fit into the health care system somewhere between a registered nurse and a GP \u2013 sometimes doing things which, in the past, would have been the domain of a doctor. <\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Joedy Wall sees the review as an opportunity to better understand their scope of work and address their needs. <\/p>\n<p>Some people see the nurse practitioner as the only viable option to a doctor, not just in remote areas but urban regions where wait times at urgent and emergent facilities can be long. <\/p>\n<p>The deadline for proposals is Tuesday, September 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The provincial government is looking for a consultant to review the role of nurse practitioners. They fit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-895493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895493","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=895493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}