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3124.1 – Nurse practitioners
Nurse practitioners provide a range of health services to patients delivering preventive and continuous care toward the management of patients' health in conjunction with physicians and in collaboration with other health professionals.
Profile
Example titles Help
- Nurse practitioner
- Nurse practitioner - extended class
Employment requirements Help
Education/training Help
- 1
- No formal education or training requirements
- 2
- Some high school education and/or on the job training or experience
- 3
- High school
- 4
- Course work, training, workshops and/or experience related to the occupation
- 5
- Apprenticeship, specialized training, vocational school training
- 6
- College, technical school (certificate, diploma)
- 7
- Undergraduate degree
- 8
- Post-graduate or professional degree
- +
- Additional requirement beyond education and training
- R
- Regulated requirement(s)
- Nurse practitioners usually require a master's degree in nursing; or completion of a nursing program with additional advanced or extended primary health care nursing education; and several years of practice as a registered nurse.
- Registration with a regulatory body is required for nurse practitioners in all provinces and territories.
Workplaces/employers Help
- Clinics
- Rehabilitation centres
- Community health centres
- Hospitals
Occupational options Help
- There is no mobility between occupations in this unit group without further training.
Exclusions Help
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 3 – Health occupations
- Skill level
- A – Occupations usually require university education
- Minor group
- 31 – Professional occupations in health (except nursing)
- Minor group
- 312 – Optometrists, chiropractors and other health diagnosing and treating professionals
- Unit group
- 3124 – Allied primary health practitioners
- Version
- NOC 2016 Version 1.3