Practice Tips

Had three years of surgical training as resident, but no Royal College certification in a surgical specialty

No family doctor? The next best option—a nurse practitioner—is available to Innisfil residents at the Barrie Campus of Georgian College.

Leland Sommer is passionate about improving access to health care in rural Saskatchewan.

Having nurse practitioners on staff was relatively rare in the Midwest U.S. and unheard of in Springfield, Ill., until Jennifer Scales came along.

The third of six episodes of the Al Jazeera documentary series Indian Hospital takes a look at how at the heart of every hospital are its nurses—often unappreciated, undervalued and underpaid.