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The staff on the floor, seem warm and welcoming and have been helpful in our learning needs as students.

For my third practicum I was selected to go to the "Living room Drop in" in downtown. This was not my first selection, but I am very glad to have experienced it. The living room drop in is a facility...

Psychiatric Nurses help patients with mental health issues work towards recovery and full, happy lives. It can be an incredibly rewarding career, full of enriching experiences and gratifying professio...

Today’s licensed professional nurses (LPNs) are the main link between individual people and the broader healthcare world. If you’re passionate about helping others live their best lives, you might be...

The Practical Nursing program is not only a program in which the students need to work individually in order to succeed, but it also incorporates a lot of group activities and projects that need...

At this moment, my cohort and I are well into our fourth semester on the Psychiatric Nursing Program. This semester includes our First Nations Health class, Introduction to Counselling, and our covete...

Acute care facilities in BC have faced staffing difficulties for several years. With a growing, ageing population, hospitals and other urgent care facilities have found it difficult to meet demands. T...

Practical Nursing grew in popularity during World War II as a way to compensate for a shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) and meet the high demand of care needed for veterans. Since practical nurses r...

Canadians are living longer and longer, and rightfully expecting a high quality of life that lasts all the way through their golden years. With the right support, nothing can stop today’s senior citiz...

Ethics are a central part of a nurse’s daily life. For nursing professionals, supporting a community’s health involves a widely diverse range of skills and responsibilities. Strong ethical standards h...

During the last few weeks of being in the actual classroom it was packed with lots of information, tips and case scenarios. We had to memorize 9 different scenarios, 4 of them we had to know by the ti...

Students enrolled in a health care aide training program will have the opportunity to provide daily assistance to the elderly once they break into the field. By helping clients with day-to-day functio...

As people age, cognitive function naturally slows down, but sometimes, factors like dementia can play a role in impacting some senior's abilities to perform normal everyday tasks. It's said that nearl...

Phlebotomy is the process of using a needle to collect blood from a patient’s vein. These blood samples are hugely helpful, and can provide a lot of insight into a patient’s condition. Nurses use bloo...

As BC’s aging population grows, there is an increasing demand for caring individuals who can help provide support for the elderly in hospitals, retirement communities or in their private homes.

In the health care field, interviewers will want to know why you chose them as well as why they should choose you. Students studying at nursing programs in BC, for example, will have the opportunity t...

Because of this new debate about the safety of vaccines, it’s important to remember the reasons why immunization is important in the first place. Read on to find out the top three benefits of getting...

We started off first semester with classes called Professional Communications and Professional Practice. You don’t realize how important these classes are, or why on earth you actually need them until...