Licensed Nurse Practitioners per 100,000 Population, by Province and Territory, 2005 to 2009
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| Source: | Regulated Nurses: Canadian Trends, 2005 to 2009, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI); Population figures from Statistics Canada. |
| Note: | Includes all licensed nurse practitioners in the workforce, regardless of employment status. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse (RN) with additional education in health assessment, diagnosis and management of illnesses and injuries, including ordering tests and prescribing drugs. Each bar represents one year from 2005 to 2009. Non-Ont: NL, NS, NB, Que, Man, Sask, Alta, B.C. Data not available for P.E.I., Yukon, Manitoba (2005, 2006), B.C. (2006), and Quebec (2006) because data not applicable, do not exist or suppressed. Data for N.W.T. and Nunavut are combined. |