Third year nursing students shared their health education promotion posters on Wednesday February 8th. The posters showcased health concerns prevalent in Manitoba as the students shared their knowledge with RRC faculty, staff, and students on prevention and how to keep healthy. Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop and interact with our students!

Another great success at our second annual Research and Innovation Day.  Hope everyone had a great time learning and exploring what our community is doing. This year we were pleased to expand our day not just with the Nursing Department but also Community Services.

We’d like to thank all our presenters, key note speaker: Karen Schnell-Hoehn RN, MN, CCN(C), sponsors, and exhibitors who made this day possible.

Thank you to all who attended, students and staff, as well as the Research and Scholarship committee and the Public Relations committee for all their hard work to make this day run so smoothly.

We’d also like to congratulate the following students:
–Best student oral presentation: Hazel Landagan, Karen Calitis, Elaine Pionela, Monica De Leon, and Kristalyn Ferrer, as well as their instructor Sonia Jablonski-Praznik, for their presentation, Reciprocal Peer Learning: Exemplar use of Technology as a Medium; A.K.A Group Work…Yay! I Got an Appfor That.

Look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

The Nursing Department hosted an Employer Forum on Friday, January 27th.

The success of Red River College BN Program graduates in the workplace is one of our main program outcomes and a key focus of the RRC strategic plan to “cultivate strategic partnerships”. Input from employers is also an important and very necessary component of measuring program effectiveness, according to the CRNM standards for Nursing Education Programs.

The event provided an opportunity for the RRC Nursing department to meet with the managers and/or educators from facilities that provide space for our RRC nursing students to do their clinical experiences, as well as may hire our graduates.

The feedback from employers was overwhelmingly positive. Thank you to everyone who attended, as we continue to work together to provide quality nursing education that meets the needs of Manitoba health care.

Our Student-Faculty Research and Innovation Day is on Tuesday! The day is open to faculty, staff, and students from both the Nursing and Community Services departments. We look forward to seeing you there! Check out our program, and come out to see the amazing presentations by our faculty and students.

The Nursing Department Research and Innovation Day is being held on Tuesday, January 31st. It is open to faculty, staff, and students from the Nursing Department and the Community Services Department.

Please make sure to register. We need pre-registration in order to plan accordingly.
Registration is for attendance. If you’ve submitted an abstract, you still need to register. If you’re attending the day but not presenting, you still need to register.

Registration deadline is January 12th. To register, click here.

The Nursing Student Council is hosting a Holiday Bake Sale tomorrow, December 15th, in the library hallway. Come out, support our students, and get in the holiday spirit with some fresh baked treats!

Time is running out to submit your abstract for Research and Innovation Day 2017! If you would like to present a poster or oral presentation, please submit your abstract by the end of the day tomorrow. Even if you are not presenting, please register for the day and come out and support the students and faculty who are. Research and Innovation Day is open to the Nursing Department and the Community Services Department. For more information and to register, click here.

Christmas is just around the corner and the Nursing Department has stepped up to ensure that one family has a very merry Christmas. Facilitated by members of the Public Relations committee and generously supported by countless faculty and staff, the Nursing Department collected over 15 boxes of donations to create a Student Christmas Hamper for a family of 9. All of the children will receive at least 2 presents and the mother will receive 3!  There was a huge amount of food donated as well as money that was used to buy whatever was missing and then some! 

The immense generosity of our faculty and staff is very exciting and shows how special and giving our department is. Thank you to everyone who donated gifts, food, and/or money. A special thank you to the Public Relations committee (particularly Dania and Jennifer) for organizing the Christmas Hamper and putting everything together.

On behalf of the Nursing Department, we wish a very merry Christmas to this family and to everyone else celebrating the holiday. 

The Nursing Department is committed to illness prevention and health promotion through awareness. November is Radon Action Month, so now is the time to raise awareness on this carcinogenic gas.

We take precautions against accidental deaths by putting on our seatbelts, wearing lifejackets, or ensuring that our smoke detectors are working – we should also be testing our homes for radon.

Next to smoking, radon is the leading cause of lung cancer and is linked to causing the deaths of 3,200 Canadians every year. It is important to note that all homes have some level of radon and talking to your patients about the need to test their homes is an important part of preventing radon-related cancer.

Most radon problems are easily resolved. Radon testing can be completed by the homeowner following the purchase of a test kit from a hardware store. Please take the time to talk with your patients, colleagues, friends, and family about the health effects of radon.

McMaster University, together with Health Canada, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, and the Clean Air Partnership, have designed a free, accredited program, Radon: Is it in your patients’ home, in order to provide you and your colleagues with reliable, evidence-based information.

It’s easy to access and free at radon.machealth.ca

It only takes one hour to complete – which you can do in one sitting, or multiple sessions.

You can also download the Radon Communication Toolkit here for additional resources to help spread the word.

For more information, contact Jennifer Otto at umotto@myumanitoba.ca