Bursaries

Applications are now open

Registration bursaries available for RNs, LPNs & NPs

January 23-24, 2025, Banff, Alberta

In conjunction with Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals next January, the University of Calgary is offering an in-person Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course. This course is taught by qualified nurses and focuses on developing the core-level pediatric knowledge and psychomotor skills needed to accurately assess and implement evidence-based interventions for a child with acute illness or injury. 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 $771.75 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) 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 ENPC in Banff. (Nurses can register for the course through the course registration webpage.)
• Before January 1, 2025, 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

Apply now!

Bursary spots have been filled: applications are now closed.

Registration bursaries available for RNs, LPNs, NPs, RTs, PAs, EMTs, Paramedics & Midwives

January 24-26, 2025 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 and to register, visit the University of Calgary’s conference registration webpage.

For eligible health professionals RhPAP is offering 15 $555.45 bursaries to attend Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals in person. RhPAP will provide this bursary for the first 15 eligible health professionals to apply and provide proof of in-person conference registration before January 7, 2025 to cover the early-bird registration cost of this conference.

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) 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 Emergency Medicine for Rural Hospitals (Register through the conference registration webpage.)
• Before January 1, 2025, be one of the first 15 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 open

Registration bursaries available for RNs & LPNs.

Endoscopy Skills Day for Practicing Endoscopists and their teams will take place on January 24-26, 2025, in Banff, Alberta,

This ​conference ​advances ​the ​cognitive ​and ​technical ​skills ​of ​physicians ​and ​nurses ​who ​routinely ​participate ​in ​endoscopy ​procedures. ​Click this link for experiences from past conferences.

RhPAP will provide a $250 bursary toward registration costs for 16 eligible rural nurses who are part of rural endoscopy teams. Registration opens soon on the conference website.

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) 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. (Nurses can register for the conference through the conference website.)
• Before January 1, 2025, be one of the first 16 eligible nurse to apply for the bursary
• Be willing to share their conference experience with RhPAP for a follow-up story after the conference

Apply now!

Bursaries are administered through the SRPC.

Banff, January 22-24, 2025

Every second January, the three-day Rural Surgical Skills Conference is held in Banff by the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC).

This event is very popular among rural physicians and their teams who practise in rural operating rooms and want to enhance their skills. The conference also provides an opportunity for teams to build knowledge and cohesion.

RhPAP provides bursary funding to reduce operating room nurse registration costs.

For more information on the conference and to apply, visit the conference webpage.

Click this link for more details