Bursary Opportunities
Explore available Bursaries to expand your career
Throughout the year, RHPAP offers bursaries that support a wide range of training opportunities across Alberta. The list below contains details about eligibility, funding details, and how to apply. Check back often for new listings.
Available Bursaries
Applications are now closed.
Bursaries are available for RNs, LPNs, NPs, RTs, PAs, EMTs, Paramedics & Midwives
January 23-25, 2026 Banff, Alberta
Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals provides updates on clinical topics relevant for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who practise in rural communities. Through a combination of plenary lectures, small group interactive sessions and workshops, participants will review current best practices, guidelines, tools, and techniques for investigating and managing emergent patients – from pre-hospital to the rural emergency department. For more information on and to register for this conference, visit the University of Calgary’s conference registration webpage.
To support rural health professionals to access this training, RhPAP will provide up to $529 bursaries for the first 18 eligible health professionals to apply.
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nurse practitioner, respiratory therapist, physician assistant, emergency medical technician, paramedic, or midwife in Alberta in good standing with their regulatory college (if applicable)
- Do the majority of their work (at least part-time) providing healthcare services in a rural Alberta community with a population of fewer than 15,000 people outside the defined Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) boundaries of Calgary or Edmonton (for more information, visit rhpap.ca/about)
- NOT have received this bursary in the past three years
- Provide proof of in-person registration for and attend Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals (Register for the conference through the conference registration website.)
- Be one of the first 18 eligible health professionals to apply for the registration bursary for Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals
- Be willing to share their conference experience with RhPAP for a follow-up story after the conference
Applications are now closed.
Registration bursaries available for RNs, LPNs & NPs
In conjunction with Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals next January, the University of Calgary is offering an in-person Trauma Nursing Core Course. This course is taught by qualified nurses and delivers the knowledge, critical thinking skills and application-based training needed to keep trauma patients safe and improve outcomes. For more information on and to register for this course, visit the University of Calgary’s course registration webpage.
To support rural registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse practitioners to access this training, RhPAP will provide up to $772 bursaries for the first 12 eligible health professionals to apply.
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse practitioner in Alberta in good standing with their regulatory college
- Do the majority of their work (at least part-time) providing healthcare services in a rural Alberta community with a population of fewer than 15,000 people outside the defined Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) boundaries of Calgary or Edmonton (for more information, visit rhpap.ca/about.)
- Provide proof of in-person registration for, attend, and successfully complete TNCC in Banff. (Register for the course through the course registration webpage.)
- Before January 1, 2026, be one of the first 12 eligible health professionals to apply for the registration bursary for this course
- Be willing to share their conference experience with RhPAP for a follow-up story after the conference
Applications are now closed.
Bursaries are available for RNs & LPNs.
The Endoscopy Skills Day for Practicing Endoscopists conference advances the cognitive and technical skills of physicians and nurses who routinely participate in endoscopy procedures. For more information on and to register for this conference, visit the conference website.
RhPAP will provide a bursary of up to $336 to cover the early-bird registration cost for 23 eligible rural nurses who are part of rural endoscopy teams to attend this conference.
To be eligible, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse in Alberta in good standing with their regulatory college
- Do the majority of their work (at least part-time) providing healthcare services in a rural Alberta community with a population of fewer than 15,000 people outside the defined Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) boundaries of Calgary or Edmonton (for more information, visit rhpap.ca/about)
- Provide proof of in-person registration for and attend the conference in Banff (Conference registration)
- Before January 11, 2026, be one of the first 23 eligible nurse to apply for the bursary
- Be willing to share their conference experience with RhPAP for a follow-up story after the conference