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Primary Care Network

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PCN Nurse

Your PCN Nurse works closely with your family physician to ensure your health care is complete. Ways your PCN Nurse will support your health include:  

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  • Chronic Disease Visits

  • Blood Pressure management

  • Asthma and lung education

  • Blood Thinner management

  • Diabetes Care

  • High Cholesterol management

  • Post heart attack/stroke care

  • Smoking cessation support

  • Patient medication reviews

  • Depression & Anxiety support

  • Helping to coordinate with other services within the health system

  • Preparation of requisitions for blood work and other required tests

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PCN Behavioural Health Consultant

Your PCN Behavioural Health Consultant works as part of your primary health care team to promote personal growth and emotional well-being. Ways your PCN BHC will support your health include:

 

  • Assisting patients whose habits, stress, behaviours, worry, or emotional concerns about physical or other life problems interfere with daily life and/or overall health

  • Working with physicians to evaluate mind-body-behaviour connections and provide brief, solution-focused interventions

 

Assisting patients in skill development to effectively manage emotional or behavioural difficulties such as:

  • Anger

  • Anxiety

  • Bereavement

  • Depression

  • Stress

  • Assisting physicians to develop behavioural change plans for patients regarding:

  • Smoking cessation

  • Exercise

  • Weight loss

  • Alcohol &/or drug use

  • Other lifestyle changes

  • Help reduce the symptoms associated with various chronic medical conditions or help patients better cope with them

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PCN Dietician

Your PCN Dietitian works closely with your family physician to ensure your health care is complete. Ways your PCN Dietitian will support your health include:  

 

  • Providing information on how to eat properly to manage chronic disease such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, heart attacks & stroke

  • Helping manage high cholesterol through healthy eating

  • Providing education and information on diet and healthy eating

  • Helping meet weight loss goals and maintain healthy weights & BMI

  • Helping to coordinate with other services within the health system

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