In the north there are not a lot of nurse partitioners. In the area I live in, the tribe that I belong to, we have 10 communities. Most of the time we have one nurse practitioner, if the person doesn't get burnt out and decide to leave. That happens a lot. The position is vacant about 30% to 40% of the time.
Is there a way that we could look at other people taking on some of the responsibilities for making the prescriptions and some of the duties that the nurse practitioner has? They do good work, but there are not enough to go around. Is there a way we could get other people to fill in some of the responsibilities? Or do you have any suggestions on how we could increase the number of nurse practitioners in the north?