Academic News

Nursing Week Event May 7th and 8th
Come by the Library hallway from 11 am to 1 pm on May 7th and 8th
as we kick start the beginning of National Nursing Week.

There will be a variety of booths, information, and displays reflecting the positive impacts nurses make on the lives and well being of Canadians.

Please stop by to see what it is nursing faculty and nursing students do in the preparation of knowledgeable, competent and caring health professionals and their contributions to society as learned, innovative and thinking citizens.

There will also be pizza and pop for sale.

Cancerous Lung in Action

On Tuesday May 1st the Teacher Education Department at Red River College hosted it’s 34th annual Cooperating Teacher Appreciation Dinner. This is Red River College’s opportunity to thank the teachers and administrators that support our student teaching practicum and teacher education program. This year we hosted representatives from 20 school divisions and 60+ schools. Our special guests in attendance were Pat Isaak, Past President of Manitoba Teachers’ Society standing in for Paul Olson, David Rew, Vice President Student Services & Planning at Red River College and Paul Little, Dean of the School of Learning Innovation at Red River College.

At this dinner we also recognize the exemplary student achievement in each of the programs. Manitoba Teachers’ Society generously provides a bursary award for these students. The award recpients are selected by faculty with consideration given to GPA, commitment to community and their contribution toward the learning and support they have given their peers. The recipients this year are John Sobkovich for the Aboriginal Award, Steven Potter for the Technical Vocational Award, Jeff Lasage for the Business Technology Award and Maribeth Tabanera for the Industrial Arts Award.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Registration and pre-dinner mingle
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Place: Selkirk Lounge (located across from the Voyageur)

Dinner will be served at 5:00 p.m.
Place: Voyageur Dining Room
Building A – Notre Dame Campus

For parking, please check with the commissionaire in the South Lot shack in front of the college upon arrival for instructions.

By invitation, R.S.V.P. to mlpishak@rrc.mb.ca

“Nursing the Health of Our Nation”
“It all begins with a strong, educational foundation”
Come by the Library hallway from
1100 to 1300 May 7th and 8th
as we kick start the beginning of

National Nursing Week.

There will be a variety of booths, information, and displays reflecting the positive impacts nurses make on the lives and well-being of Canadians.

Please stop by to see what it is nursing faculty and nursing students do in the preparation of knowledgeable, competent and caring health professionals and their contributions to society as learned, innovative and thinking citizens.

Our new curriculum is founded on the relational approach. But what exactly is this?

Joe, age 55, has Type 1 diabetes and is in hospital after having suffered an insulin coma. His primary nurse, Suzette, practices relational nursing. What will this mean for Joe?

Suzette begins by seeking to learn about Joe – not only his medical condition, but also who he is as a unique person, what concerns him most, and what this hospitalization means for him. In relational practice, the nurse seeks to know who the particular person/family is in this particular situation at this moment in time, and what is meaningful to them.

Suzette is authentic and responsive in her interactions with Joe, and takes initiative to make a connection with him. This means that whenever she is in the room to do a nursing task, she is at the same time interacting with Joe to get to know him, what he is experiencing, and what he needs. She invites Joe and his family to be partners in Joe’s recovery by providing information and support. She also collaborates with the interdisciplinary health team. Partnership is the heart of relational practice.

Abstract: It has been stated that people need to improve their knowledge of finances and make better choices with their money. Many programs have been created to teach basic finances. These programs target people of all ages from adults all the way down to kindergarten students. The vast majority of opinions on teaching finances state that education begins with children – the younger the better. The goal of this research project is to create a fun to play (massively) multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) capable of teaching younger students how to better manage their personal finances. The game will be designed as an educational title with an attempt to balance both the entertainment and educational components. It will be a combination of a game and a simulation. Students will live out a virtual life in a generated game world making financial decisions for their character in an attempt to develop enough wealth to allow that character to retire.

Date of Publication: April 2012

Author: David Jones, Department of Accounting and Computer Education

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On behalf of Karen Wall, Chair of Nursing, and the Red River College Nursing faculty, we would like to announce and celebrate the enormous success of two very important programs in Red River College Nursing history.

The Red River College/University of Manitoba Joint Baccalaureate Nursing Program (JBN) was established in 1996 and in the same year all diploma nursing programs in the province of Manitoba were closed.  The students completed their first 3 years of education at Red River College followed by their final year at the University of Manitoba.  The JBN Program remains the only joint degree program in Canada that was a 3 + 1 model.  The first entry of 20 students graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2000. In its final years the student intake for the JBN Program was 108 students. The collegial working relationship between the RRC Nursing Department and the University of Manitoba Faculty of Nursing resulted in an excellent joint program that ran successfully for 16 years.

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Instructor Randy Butterfield’s new show is now on.

March 12 to 30th, 2012
Fleet Galleries, 62 Albert Street

A trio of Red River College students have received rave reviews from a local robotic software developer, for their work on a prototype website for the Manitoba-based Virtual Robot Games (VRG).

As part of their coursework for the fall term of RRC’s Business Information Technology program, second-year students Cyle Hunter, Scott Bevan and Nathaniel Dolynchuk paired with Winnipeg-based Cogmation Robotics, a software developer specializing in robotic simulation.

The students developed a web application that allows VRG competitors to register their virtual players and teams, to upload autonomous game behaviours, robots and arenas, and to view their resulting scores and rankings.

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RRC business students will have a valuable opportunity to rub elbows with leaders from Manitoba’s business community at Red River College’s 2012 Directions Business Conference.

Approximately 600 people, including past RRC alumni, are expected to attend this year’s event, which will be held on February 1 at Canad Inns Polo Park.

The annual business conference is aimed at engaging RRC students in the school of Business and Applied Arts, and helps provide them with a chance to meet people in the industry where they want to work. Participation also allows students to create contacts, and benefit from the experience of attending a professional business conference.

Students will be able to take in valuable career advice from Paul Soubry Jr., President and CEO of New Flyer, who is the event’s breakfast keynote speaker. After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce from the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba, Soubry went on to study at Harvard and began his career in Winnipeg at Standard Aero. He eventually became that company’s president before joining New Flyer in 2009, and now sits on the Board of Directors at Mondetta Clothing, the Associates IH Asper School of Business, Economic Development Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Airports Authority.

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