The opening of such a clinic aims to strengthen front-line services to the population and thus relieve emergency room congestion.
A specialist nurse practitioner (SNP) is a healthcare professional who can provide advanced medical and nursing care.
“In 22 days of operation, 435 appointments were made with 380 orphan patients who benefited from this service. This is for the first days, we are not at 100% activity for the IPS clinic […]», Explains Annie Boisvert, deputy general director of general and specialized physical health programs at the CIUSS de l’Estrie CHUS.
The IPS clinic, which has nine treatment rooms, can also count on the work of a full-time physiotherapist.
The CIUSS de l’Estrie CHUS does not exclude the idea of opening other clinics of this type on its territory in the coming years.
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Depending on their specialty class, the role of specialist nurse practitioners and specialist nurse practitioners (SNPs) combines both the exercise of advanced nursing practice and nine professional activities with high risk of harm. IPS can:
– Diagnose diseases;
– Prescribe diagnostic examinations;
– Use diagnostic techniques that are invasive or pose a risk of harm;
– Determine medical treatments;
– Prescribe medications and other substances;
– Prescribe medical treatments;
– Use techniques or apply medical treatments that are invasive or present a risk of harm;
– Monitor pregnancies;
– Administer the medication allowing a person to obtain medical assistance in dying as part of the application of the Law concerning end of life care.
* Source: Order of Nurses of Quebec
Details in the Marc-Antoine Mailloux report.
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