As their role in health care continues to grow, nurse practitioners across Canada are looking to Alberta, where nurse practitioners recently formed their own union — but on P.E.I., the nurses' union that represents them says it's doing its job. 

During a recent Health P.E.I. meeting, Island nurse practitioner Darci Leggatt said compensation for nurse practitioners is "underwhelming" and "patchy," adding that she hopes a new contract will better reflect their increasingly important role in lookin…