Academic News

Bernie Taronno along with his Intro to Construction Class 2014 take a break from building garden sheds.

Red River College, Nursing Department staff and students participated in a Mock disaster.

In September 2013, the Manitoba Health, Office of Disaster Management conducted a mock evacuation of a 75 bed acute care hospital, as well as a 30 bed personal care home from a Northern Health Region in MB.

This was a large, cooperative exercise involving 189 individuals from 62 separate stakeholder groups. Third year RRC nursing students (seen in grey uniforms) and faculty; Lillian Mugweni and Alison Fyfe-Carlson, had an opportunity to practice skills of triage, disaster management and communication with other health departments in the development of an Interim Medical Treatment Facility (IMTF).

An IMTF is a temporary facility that is created to receive a large amount of patients, triage them and provide care while they wait to be placed in an appropriate facility within the health care system.

MB Health considered all of the feedback from stakeholders and developed an “After Action Report/Improvement Plan”.  MB Health plans to look at other collaborative IMTF exercises such as a Trauma Event Scenario in the future.

This was an excellent learning opportunity for RRC Nursing students and faculty.

Active triage

Heather Day, the inaugural winner of the Nursing Gold Medal for Excellence is pictured here with the chair of the Nursing Department, Karen Wall. The prestigious award was handed out on Februaury 4th, 2014 at the Red River College Graduation.

This evening saw over one hundred students from the initial three year Nursing Degree class from Red River College graduate with faculty, friends and family present to honour their achievements.

Congratulations Heather! We wish you all the best as you embark on your exciting new career.

Winnipeg has been in the news a lot this winter because of our current run of cold temperatures. While this may make for some stimulating (albeit whining) discussion at lunch, there are some very real concerns as a result of the frigid cold…….. finding warmth for the homeless.

Siloam Mission is a Christian humanitarian organization that alleviates hardships and provides opportunities for change for those affected by homelessness. They currently have an urgent need for warm socks. The Nursing Department wanted to find a way to help. And so, at the recent WNRCASN (Western North-Western Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing) conference, we provided conference delegates with the opportunity to help meet that need. Delegates were asked to bring a pair (or more) of new sports/work socks with them to the conference. Or, to “purchase” socks (generously donated by Walmart – Unicity) that were available at the conference.

We accumulated about 400 pairs of socks and collected $448.75!

All the TEP participants were invited to take their Certificate in Adult Education courses together as a cohort.  The first course, Introduction to Instruction, began mid-January with 17 faculty.  In March, the group will take their second course, Instructional Methods.  More TEP participants will join the second course as a few new faculty members had already taken Introduction to Instruction.  By June, 25 new faculty will have completed three CAE courses together in the first ever CAE/TEP cohort.

September-October 2013 TEP Session – highly interactive sessions draw on the participants’ current and previous experience –

The first group of faculty working through their Certificate of Education as a cohort.  They will complete three CAE courses by June –

Three new faculty, Lee (Piping Trades) , Patrick (Piping Trades)  and Jordan (Deaf Studies), work through a classroom management scenario –

health fair

3rd year nursing students held a Health Fair in the Library Hallway Wednesday February 12th, 2014.

This was an assignment in their Epidemiology and Illness prevention class.

With their instructor’s, students brought their coursework to life.

Year 3 Nursing Students, Epidemiology and Illness prevention

This course focuses on concepts, research and practices associated with epidemiology, the prevention of chronic illness and injury prevention. It involves public health strategies for reducing health risk and the nurse’s role in the promotion of health and the primary and secondary prevention of illness.

Red River College is proud to host

An opportunity to engage in dialogue related to nursing education, support networking and enhance continued learning and awareness within the nursing education community.

WNRCASN

Western & North-Western Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Conference, 2014

Embracing Challenges:

Nursing Education in the 21st Century

February 19-21, 2014
Fort Garry Hotel
Winnipeg, MB

For more info, visit, www.rrc.ca/wnrcasn.

Teacher Education students at Red River College learn to connect and share their learning.

Follow the links below for exciting learning opportunities for everyone!

Congratulations to the Winter 2014 Graduates!

107 proud Red River College, Bachelor of Nursing Degree Graduates crossed the stage on February 4th.

This event marked the first Graduating Class of Red River College’s Bachelor of Nursing Program.

We wish the new graduates all the best as they have achieved the graduate outcomes of the program and explore how their roles will influence nursing practice in the years to come.

Congratulations!

To see the live feed go to:  http://t.co/c7oFpJMfM0