e-Care Smart is a project created to address the need for chronically ill people to be under constant medical care and supervision. The students worked from a client-provided mock-up.

This web-application allows for direct interaction between patients and medical practitioners, where doctors are able to prescribe medication and treatment for their patients online. An alerts system allows doctors to track patients condition, study the pattern and prevent dangerous outcomes. Read More →

Tourism has been increasing in Manitoba over the past years. Entrepreneur, Simone Allard, saw an need for an application that could feature different historical sites and landmarks found in Manitoba Municipalities. Currently users would have to go to multiple tourism websites for more information about a site giving very little information on them.

Our ACE Project Space students created a web based application that will act as a central hub for all municipalities in Manitoba. This application is a way to motivate users to go out and explore sites and events found in municipalities. Users will be able to navigate to different sites and events, plan their own trips within the app, or follow pre-made trips. This will also increase the tourism helping a municipality’s economy. Read More →

Screen Capture of RoofBundle website.

The majority of roofing companies in the industry are making their employees draw a sketch of a roof based on measurements taken for at least 75 percent of the roofs that are contracted to be built or repaired. Once this process has been completed the roofers need to take the data they have complied as well as the sketch and upload it into a system that the company is using.

Entrepreneur-In-Residence, David Peters, realized this is an ineffective way of doing business due to the fact most of the roofing job requests happen during a two-week span at two specific times of the year. The current process slows down how quickly the turn around time is therefore cutting into the number of clients they can accept, business profits, etc.

The students at the ACE Project Space built a web-application to present a solution to this challenge. The solution is “RoofBundle”, an application where the roofers can compile the data of the roof they have gathered into a form and sketch the roof digitally. Once the roofer has completed that step then the application should build an estimate of the cost of building/repairing the roof, a work order of job, and a purchase order of the materials necessary to complete the job.

The students built a comprehensive content management system, and delivered a minimal viable product on this job: a website where the roofer can login; fill out all the necessary forms for the complied roof data they have; and generate an estimate. Read More →

Logged-In Landing Page for PostEd

The ACE Project Space students developed PostEd, a web application conceptualized by post-secondary students for post-secondary students.

PostEd, formerly Connexus, is an idea that started from four university students: David Teffaine, Brett Swope, Sam Cohen and Carson Milberg. The purpose of the web application is to show nearby free and paid events on a user calendar within the app. Users will be able to show interest in a variety of events.

This tools allows users to post events, subscribe to events, and plan their social calendar around their post-secondary institution.

In the second phase of their project they plan to provide all the information they’d need to assist students to find the right scholarship the app filters students’ selections (GPA, faculty, etc.) and customizes the results for the them. Read More →

Speak Easy is a student-sponsored project that ran this past Industry Project term. It is a social networking system designed to disrupt the election industry. Disruptive technologies are those that create a virtual market place by providing better communications between buyers and sellers within the industry. Elections are market places where voters shop for a candidates. Technology can be used to find efficiencies in the election industry just as they would any market place where a free market transaction is occurring. Read More →

Coming up on January 18-19, 2018: Red River College and North Forge are very excited to present Willy Lai’s two-day UX (User Experience) workshop in the ACE Project Space.

This will be the only Canadian stop on Willy Lai’s UX Workshop World Tour, where participants will learn through hands-on exercises, lectures, and class discussions. This workshop is intended for both non-designers and design to learn from award-winning experience designer, Willy Lai.

Please read more and find registration details on North Forge’s site: https://www.northforge.ca/uxwinnipeg2018/

There are only a few spots left!

The seasonal flu vaccine protects against the influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the Fall and Winter months. Annual vaccination is important because influenza is unpredictable, can cause serious health complications, flu viruses are constantly changing, and immunity from vaccination declines over time. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority recommends an annual flu vaccine as the first and best way to protect against influenza, which can cause serious illness especially in those who are at higher risk for these complications. In order to promote health and wellness of the community, our Nursing students took a proactive approach and participated in the Red River College Flu Clinic last November.

Second year BN students, in partnership with the Red River College Health Centre, administered the 2017 Flu Vaccine to 303 students and 150 staff, for a total of 453 flu vaccinations over the course of four days. The Flu Clinic was held at both the Notre Dame Campus and the Language Training Centre.

Participation in the Flu Clinics was part of the BN Older Adult Health Theory course, specifically related to the Community Clinical Practice component. Each day, one group of students (4-6 students per group), from the four groups in Community Clinical practice, were responsible for a clinic. They were supervised by course leader Tammy Moran, their clinical instructor (either Tanya Cole, Diane Ammeter, Janet Spence, or Teri-Lyn Healy), and either Heather or Ian from the Health Center. Not only were students responsible for the safe administration of the vaccine, they were directly involved in the set up and organization of the clinic throughout the day.

The Community Clinical Practice component of the Older Adult Health course focuses on the clinical application of concepts, processes, practices, and research associated with promoting health and maintaining wellness in middle-aged and older adults as well as their families in community settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of the nurse-client relational partnership in the context of health teaching for the promotion of health and the maintenance of wellness. The Flu Clinic gave students the opportunity to recognize the importance of an interprofessional / multidisciplinary team approach when caring for the older adult, participate in a wellness health event focused on health promotion with adults in the community, as well as organize and deliver a public education event focused on adults.

By administering vaccinations, students were also able to practice drawing up medication as well as the proper techniques of an IM injection. The Flu Clinic gave real world practice to the techniques learned in the Techniques One course. In addition, students were able to learn and practice relational nursing skills, cultural competence and cultural safety with adults in community-based settings, documentation, as well as health teaching and promotion.

Although the students were nervous to begin the day, they quickly adapted to their role. Students shared with their instructors how the clinic was fun, and they felt very much like “nurses” as they carried out their duties for the day.

The Nursing Department would like to thank Heather Temple, from the Health Center, for her expertise and commitment to helping our students be successful in promoting health and wellness for Red River College faculty and students. It was a great partnership for our Nursing students to experience, and we look forward to participating again next year.

Written by Tammy Moran – Nursing Instructor
Organized by Meagen Chorney – Nursing Instructor

Let’s start with a huge shout out to the Nursing Department for all your donations for our RRC Student Association Christmas hamper!  It was a huge success and brought great cheer to a family in need this Christmas.

THANK YOU!!

We would like to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and all the best in the New Year!  Hope the new year will be good to all and bring happiness to everyone.

Please celebrate safe, and share love and happiness with everyone you encounter!

See you in the New Year and enjoy your holidays; everyone deserves it!!

Written by Jennifer Johnson – Nursing Lab Manager

The festive holiday season was kicked off on December 7th with the annual come and go tea hosted by the Health Sciences and Community Services departments.

Staff were greeted with good wishes from the holiday elves who had some delicious baking and decadent hot chocolate.

This event provided an opportunity for different departments to come together, catch up on how the year has been going, and celebrate successes.

We look forward to more events in the near future!

Written by Monica Nash – Nursing Instructor

UPDATE: Please note that since the original posting, the dates have been revised to January 25 and February 15 instead of December 18 and January 15.

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The ACE Project Space helps entrepreneurs at the early stages of their business development and community partners reach their goals and have long-term success by working together, sharing experiences, and experimenting with new ideas. Community partners and entrepreneurs can also get advice on business decisions and discuss success strategies. The ACE Project Space is a safe environment for entrepreneurs, industry leaders, community organizations, and students to work together and have a chance to make a difference in their community. Read More →