Kari Scinski - Nurse Practitioner

 People sometimes ask me when I knew I'd become a Nurse Practitioner. The honest answer is that I didn't know — not for a long time. My name is Kari Scinski, and I'm a new Nurse Practitioner working in primary care in Edmonton, Alberta. My path here wasn't a straight line. It was a slow accumulation of moments at the bedside that, eventually, made the next step feel inevitable. Why I Chose Nursing in the First Place Long before I was thinking about Nurse Practitioner programs in Alberta, I was a Registered Nurse trying to understand what good care actually looked like. The textbook answers were one thing. The hallway answers — the ones you only learn by being present with patients and families — were another. Nursing rewards anyone willing to slow down, ask the next question, and stay in a difficult conversation a few seconds longer than feels comfortable. That's the part of the work I fell in love with, and that's the part I refuse to leave behind as my scope...