Rocky Mountain House nurse soon to be physician hopes to go rural
Congratulations to Sarah Walton, one of four recipients of the RhPAP 2020 Rural Medical School Award. Each student receives $5,000 to assist...
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Award-worthy nursing team in Manning treats patients like they are family
The Manning Community Health Centre nursing team is one of the recipients of the 2020 RhPAP Rhapsody Health-care Heroes Awards. Established in...
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RhPAP has always been there for Dr. Gavin Parker. Now he’s returning the favour.
Dr. Gavin Parker has had ties to the Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) for a long time. RhPAP’s new board chair...
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Tofield recreation therapist makes life fun for long-term care residents
Everyone likes to have fun, whether they are one or 100. So, if Nicole Kulba is taking care of you, consider yourself...
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Rural nursing and midwifery key to enhancing future health care
RhPAP wraps up its celebration of 2020 The Year of the Nurse and Midwife by looking into what’s in store down the...
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Calling the midwife is catching on in Taber
Stacy Peleskey and Emily West are making a home visit with post-partum client, Eva Bergen. Peleskey is a midwife whose clinic is...
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Nursing career options go beyond hospital walls
Teacher, secretary, hairdresser, or nurse. For at least one young woman growing up in a small rural community during the early ’80s, the...
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Home-care role different than acute care
Home-care nurses often have to bite their tongues and listen. What it means to care for someone in their own home is...
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Rural nurses must be prepared for any health crisis
Nurses never quite know what they will be dealing with when a patient arrives at a rural hospital. In her previous role...
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Northern nurses love living and working rural
Registered nurse, Lawrence McNeil, knew rural Alberta was where he belonged even before he enrolled in nursing school in Edmonton. McNeil was working part-time...
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Fondness for rural life drives Ponoka RN’s passion for health care
Dennie Hycha enjoys gazing out her office window and taking in the picture-perfect view. The registered nurse is not looking out the...
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Detective work plays out in Arrowwood clinic
RhPAP continues its celebration of 2020 The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife with profiles of three nurse practitioners (NPs) in...
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