Virtual clinic helps tackle health-care barriers for Indigenous people
An innovative and collaborative virtual clinic is giving Indigenous people in Alberta a new option when it comes to accessing health care....
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Strong supports lead to mental health success
Mental health supports are different for everyone, but are vital to every wellness journey. These supports, from professional help such as therapy and...
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Sharing personal experiences to end mental health stigma
According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, one in five Canadians experience a mental health problem or illness in any given year. Despite...
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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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PCN workshop’s advice: Don’t worry, be happy
Happiness—it’s a simple concept that isn’t always easy to come by, especially coming out of the year that was 2020. That’s why practitioners at...
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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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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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Provost nurse cares for her neighbours
For Val Paice, driving more than an hour, twice a day for ten months was worth the sacrifice. As a married mother with...
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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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