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Nursing Know How - Working with Women to Tackle COVID-19
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Women have been particularly affected by this pandemic and are grappling daily with challenges to their safety and security. These challenges are made worse by poverty, limited housing options, and the tremendous food insecurity that exists.
Helen Brown opens New Frontiers
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Helen Brown is a principal investigator for "Developing a Peer Mentorship Program to Foster Health and Social Equity for Indigenous Peoples in Criminal Justice Contexts", which is in receipt of an award of $248,034 from the federal…
Cheryl Segaric Awarded Killam Teaching Prize
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Nominated by her students and colleagues in recognition of her outstanding achievement as a teacher, Cheryl Segaric is the recipient of a 2019-2020 UBC Killam Teaching Prize. This coveted prize is usually presented at the Spring Congregation…
For the Record: Nursing's COVID19 Response
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A collection of resources, information, and stories pertaining to COVID-19 during lockdown, 2020.
CAN announces UBC SoN Charter Fellows
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School of Nursing Professors Sally Thorne and Colleen Varcoe Named Charter Fellows of New Canadian Academy of Nursing Michael Villeneuve, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Nurses Association, announced on Monday, May 11, 2020, that the new
A Triple Win for Nursing Education
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While we wait for the pandemic to end, we are all creating a new normal. Habits change and new paths open up, and out of necessity, invention thrives. At UBC’s School of Nursing, professors are finding fresh ways to disseminate and acquire knowledge…
Rise to the Occasion
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Nurses are committed to serving all, and to applying a health equity lens in the process of providing care. What does that mean in a pandemic? It means that nurses are obliged to identify those who are the least likely to be well-served by systems…
Jennifer Baumbusch - CIHR Chair (2020-2024)
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Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Sex & Gender Science Chair – Dynamics of Caregiving in an Aging SocietyNegotiating Care and Navigating Health Services: The Experiences of Community-dwelling People Living with Dementia and their…
Healthy, Happy Hearts - Cardiology Research from Dr. Martha Mackay
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Dr. Martha Mackay is a clinical associate professor at the School of Nursing, St. Paul’s Heart Centre and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. Dr. Mackay divides her time between clinical and research roles. As the Clinical Nurse…
CIHR Invests in Health Systems and Services Research
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Dr. Fuchsia Howard Leads Research Project to Investigate Unplanned Hospital Readmission Following Critical Illness Survival. The UBC School of Nursing’s Dr. Fuchsia Howard and fellow researcher Gregory Halijan have recently been awarded a grant…