– Life as a Nurse Practitioner –
Lauren Scott is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner at Women’s College Hospital. She is a passionate women’s health advocate.
Before becoming a Nurse Practitioner Lauren had an exciting career as a registered nurse working in neurotrauma at Canada’s largest paediatric hospital and travel nursing in Australia.
Lauren graduated from the prestigious global health/nurse practitioner program at the University of Toronto.
Passion for Nursing Education
She has an extensive teaching background, working as an interprofessional education specialist at the Sick Kids centre for global child health working primarily on a Caribbean initiative training registered nurses in Trinidad.
She has also worked as a clinical instructor and preceptor for RPN, RN, NP and medical students as well as family medicine residents.
Present Day Activities
For the past 8 years she has been working in primary care at Women’s College Hospital.
Her clinical practice focuses on women’s health and procedures. Her research interests are in pain management for ambulatory procedures and contraception. She is a national speaker and trainer on contraception.
Lauren is an adjunct lecturer at The University of Toronto’s schools of nursing and department of family and community medicine.
She is also a member of Ontario’s Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) and has been deployed in situations of medical emergencies in Northern communities and in COVID response efforts.
Reasons to Listen
This will be a talk worth listening to for:
- those interested in finding out more about what being a Nurse Practitioner truly means
- those wanting to uncover what it takes to pursue a career within nursing
- those who are on the fence about whether the profession of nursing could be for them
Listeners will come away with insights on:
- what it means to be a nurse practitioner (NP)
- the variety of nursing professionals designations and options
- a day in the life of a nurse practitioner
- what hooked Lauren into the profession of nursing
- what makes nursing special as a profession
- what it’s like finding a speciality in nursing
- handling the constant reinvention of the profession from a tech, procedural and knowledge standpoint
- Rewarding aspects of the work
- insights on the differences between working as a nurse within a small community setting versus a big city
- insights on her international nursing experiences
- a moving story illustrating the true impact of this profession
- the role of tech within nursing moving forward
- much more!
A Memorable Quote from the Episode:
“I don’t think people realize how vast the opportunities are within nursing. You can be a full time teacher as nurse. You can be in policy development, you can be completely in research or you can be in the trauma bay bedside or you can switch. You can do the bedside a little bit and then do a bit of teaching or a little bit of private practice. You’re not stuck in one pathway.”
-Lauren Scott
Check out the Video Conversation:
For those who desire to view video highlights of the conversation, you can do so via Youtube.
Discover More
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Keep Listening!
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