PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER (NOC 31302)

Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional education, advanced knowledge and nursing experience, and a specialty of practice.

They provide a range of health services to patients and deliver preventive and continuous care toward the management of patients' health.

Nurse practitioners work in conjunction with physicians and collaboratively with other nursing colleagues and health-care providers, or they may work independently.

They are employed in community health centres, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and rehabilitation centers.

Nurse practitioners may specialize in primary healthcare or acute care.

JOB DUTIES :

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Nurse practitioners have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve :

Examine patients and take their medical histories and consult with physicians and other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health

Order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures

Inoculate and vaccinate patients

Advise patients and their families on health care including health promotion, disease, illness and accident prevention

Collaborate with members of an interdisciplinary health team such as family physicians, therapists and nutritionists to plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate patient care in consultation with patients and their families

Perform a patient advocacy role

Prescribe and administer medications

May co-ordinate or manage primary patient care.

Physical demands Help - Physical Demands

Standing

Handling material manually

Sitting

Workplaces and employers

Here are the typical workplaces where Nurse practitioners are employed and some of their main characteristics :

Clinics

Community health centres

Hospitals

Rehabilitation centres

Work environment Help - Physical Work Environment

Indoors, environmentally controlled

Biological agents

Dangerous chemical substances

Skin injury

Standard safety equipment

Physical proximity from others Help - Physical proximity from others

Physically touching or very close

Requirements

This is what you typically need for the job.

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.

Source National Occupational Classification

Professional certification and licensing

Ontario

If this occupation is regulated, you may need to get a professional license from a regulatory authority before you can start working.

Licensing can be compulsory or voluntary, depending on the occupation.

If the licence is compulsory, you must be certified before you can practise the occupation and use the professional designation.

If the licence is voluntary, you don’t need to be certified to practise this occupation.

Knowledge Help - Knowledge

Knowledge level

Physical Health

3 - Advanced Level

Biology

2 - Intermediate Level

Humanities

2 - Intermediate Level

Client Service

2 - Intermediate Level

Languages

2 - Intermediate Level

Mathematics

2 - Intermediate Level

Mental Health

2 - Intermediate Level

Chemistry

1 - Basic Level

Business Management

1 - Basic Level

Clerical

1 - Basic Level

Personal Attributes Help - Personal Attributes

Importance

Service Orientation

5 - Extremely important

Stress Tolerance

5 - Extremely important

Concern for Others

5 - Extremely important

Collaboration

5 - Extremely important

Analytical Thinking

5 - Extremely important

Attention to Detail

5 - Extremely important

Active Learning

4 - Highly important

Social Orientation

4 - Highly important

Independence

4 - Highly important

Leadership

4 - Highly important

Skills Help - Skills

Proficiency or complexity level

Social Perceptiveness

5 - Highest Level

Coordinating

4 - High Level

Instructing

4 - High Level

Monitoring

4 - High Level

Time Management

4 - High Level

Writing

4 - High Level

Reading Comprehension

4 - High Level

Oral Communication : Active Listening

4 - High Level

Oral Communication : Oral Comprehension

4 - High Level

Oral Communication : Oral Expression

4 - High Level