Kari Scinski, NP | Women's Health Nurse Practitioner | Sherwood Park, Alberta
Kari Scinski, NP | Women's Health Nurse Practitioner | Sherwood Park, Alberta
I'm Kari Scinski — a Nurse Practitioner based in Sherwood Park, Alberta, with a clinical focus on women's health and menopause care.
This site is a placeholder while I build toward something new. If you're here because you're looking for a provider who takes women's health seriously — especially the hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause — I'm glad you found this page.
My background
I came to women's health the long way around — which is to say, through experience rather than a straightforward career plan.
I started in long-term care right out of high school, completed the Health Care Aide program at NorQuest College, and spent four years as an HCA before pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I graduated with distinction and joined the Labour and Delivery team at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where I spent more than a decade caring for women and families through some of the most significant moments of their lives. For the last five of those years, I served as an Assistant Head Nurse — a role that taught me as much about supporting people under pressure as it did about clinical care.
That time on Labour and Delivery gave me something I think is genuinely rare: a deep, longitudinal understanding of how women's bodies change, and how often the healthcare system fails to treat those changes as the medical concerns they are.
It's what eventually led me to pursue the Master of Nursing – Nurse Practitioner (Family/All Ages) at Athabasca University, which I completed in December 2025. And it's what keeps me focused specifically on women's health — particularly the years of perimenopause and menopause that so many women navigate without enough information, support, or time with a clinician who actually listens.
My approach to women's health
I believe a lot of what women experience in midlife gets dismissed too quickly — labelled as stress, aging, or anxiety when it's actually a hormonal shift that has a name, an explanation, and often a real treatment path.
My approach is straightforward: I listen first. I take symptoms seriously. I explain what's happening in plain language. And I try to make sure every person who leaves an appointment understands their own health a little better than when they arrived.
I'm currently completing a menopause management certification accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), because this is an area where the evidence is evolving quickly and I want to stay at the front of it.
What's next
I'm based in Sherwood Park and currently practicing in Edmonton. I'm in the early stages of building an independent practice focused on women's health and menopause care for patients in the Sherwood Park and greater Edmonton area.
This site will grow as those plans develop. If you'd like to stay informed when I'm ready to take on new patients, you're welcome to reach out.
A note on menopause care
If you're in your 40s and things feel off — sleep disrupted, energy flat, mood unpredictable, cycles irregular, brain not quite working the way it used to — there's a reasonable chance perimenopause is part of the picture. It often starts years before periods stop, and it's consistently undertreated.
You don't have to wait until menopause is "official" to get support. And you don't have to accept being told it's just stress.
If and when I'm in a position to take on new patients, supporting women through exactly this kind of transition is what I'll be here for.