Keeping health care close to home in Sundre
Nursing students to learn what it’s like to be a health professional in a rural Alberta community Health professionals from the Sundre region will teach about 50 nursing students from Red Deer...
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Emergency training course brings respect and understanding to fellow providers
Two-day training focuses on rural health-care scenarios Realistic emergency scenarios, mixed with a little humour, have physicians, nurses, and paramedics sharing a new...
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Smoky River Skills weekend encourages students to ‘think rural’
Future health providers discovered a unique gem tucked away in northern Alberta: a group of Francophone communities passionate about enhancing rural medicine. From October 26 to 28, the communities...
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Peace River Operating Room Team: Rhapsody Awards Profile
It’s not hard to tell that the operating room nursing team at the Peace River Community Health Centre really enjoys spending time together. ...
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Future practitioners gain skills and insight: Rocky Mountain House Skills Weekend
It was a weekend of fun, fright, and fundamentals as 55 healthcare students visited Rocky Mountain House for a specialized skills event October...
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Caring for your friends and neighbours: How the CARE Course helps support Alberta’s rural health professionals
Erin Welke-Martens knew long before she completed her nursing education that when you work in your own community, your patients are your neighbours, friends, and family. ...
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Today we really got to see what a rural hospital is like’ – Bow Island Skills Day
More than 40 nursing and paramedic students from Medicine Hat College experienced the demands of working in a rural hospital on September...
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Health-care students rock Rimbey at RhPAP skills event
Over 50 University of Alberta health-care students experienced Rimbey’s first-ever skills weekend on August 25 and 26. The medical, nursing, and physiotherapy...
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“I Choose to Be Busy” – Carolyn Robbins on being a nurse and rancher in Pincher Creek
Some people choose to take care of people for a living. Others choose to take care of animals. Carolyn Robbins has decided...
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