Lorine Scott. Nurse Practitioner's

Lorine is past President of the BC Nurse Practitioners Association.

Lorine is currently practising medicine in an inner city of Vancouver family practise dealing with families living in poverty.

She is a salaried employee of BC Children's & Women's Hospital.
She is not a fee for service employee like Doctors so can take the time to deal with issues of the whole family.

She in no way replaces Doctors and refer to a Doctor if she feels the patient needs it.

Nurse practitioners are on the front line.

Nurse practitioners were first used in Canada in Ontario and have been for over 50 years.

They are new to BC.  Introduced in 2005.

Initial education is as a nurse, then follows a degree from a University.  They are not a Physicians care but they do overlap.

There is no shortage of work. It is a change.   They often work in rural communities and are licensed through College of Nurses.

No N.P. has been sued in our 50 years of service. They have no union and are a professional group of providers.

The speaker was thanked by Leigh.