Grace Hospital’s Emergency Department nursing team features a mix of savvy veterans and talented novice nurses. And like all great teams, they’ve rallied together when it means the most.
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Nurse Practitioner making most of opportunity to help build on Churchill’s resiliency
The residents of Churchill are a resilient bunch. Through frigid weather, rail disruptions and, most recently, a COVID-19 pandemic, the town’s 830 residents have developed a well-earned reputation for sticking together and helping one another through life’s unexpected challenges.
Nurses go extra mile to ensure mental health clients protected from COVID
Throughout the pandemic, they’ve not only been making “house calls,” they’ve been actively working to find, educate, encourage and, occasionally, provide a little incentive to get their clients/participants immunized against COVID-19.
Rapid Response Nurses take pride in a job well done
For Rapid Response Nurses Karen Taylor, Dawn Siegers and Kayla Brown, working to help ensure their clients had access to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations was a natural extension of the kind of personal care the program was designed to provide.
Allied Health Week Spotlight: Dana Kliewer
The Long COVID Self-Management Group provides multidisciplinary rehabilitation for individuals with Long COVID (long-term effects of COVID-19) through self-management education and clinician and peer support.
Allied Health Week Spotlight: Kathleen Rempel Boschman
Receiving a new diagnosis or learning to live with a chronic illness or coming to the end of our lives challenges us to sort through a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. Spiritual Health practitioners are highly skilled listeners and counsellors when it comes to facilitating release of honest emotions.
Allied Health Week Spotlight: Candice Harmon
Respiratory Therapists (RTs) play a vital role in the care of patients from birth to death, as well as from the hospital to the home. With COVID -19 being a respiratory illness, the pandemic put respiratory therapists squarely in the spotlight – a challenge they’ve met with the utmost skill, endurance and dedication.
Allied Health Week Spotlight: Stefanie Turner and the Victoria Hospital 4S Allied Health team
The Victoria Hospital 4S Allied Health team provides exceptional care to the patients and families of a 28-bed Geriatric Rehabilitation unit. Together with other health-care professionals, the team supports patients 65 years and older who require inpatient rehabilitation services in order to reach their functional baseline.
Health system addressing emergency, urgent care wait times
Winnipeg’s emergency departments and urgent care centres are taking initial steps to address patient wait times, implementing some immediate changes while engaging front-line staff and physicians in identifying longer-term solutions to existing patient flow challenges that developed throughout the pandemic, the Winnipeg Health Region and Shared Health reported today.
Health-care system prepares to welcome Ukrainian refugees
Manitoba is known for having a large population of people of Ukrainian descent. So it only makes sense that our province is so willing to welcome people fleeing the war in Ukraine over the coming weeks and months.