Tamasha Hussein
Tylenol Bacc Award My name is Tamasha Hussein, and I am a nursing student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus. I chose to pursue nursing because of my desire to impact people’s lives positively. Before nursing, I always sort out opportunities to serve others in a more practical, hands-on way in my local […]
Asmaa El Idrissi
Tylenol Bacc Award My name is Asmaa, I come from Morocco, more precisely from Casablanca, a large coastal city located on the other side of the Atlantic. I am a newcomer to Canada and a single mother of two children. In Morocco, I worked for 10 years in the health field as a nurse in […]
Ali Akbari
Tylenol Bacc Award My name is Ali Akbari, and I am entering my second year of the accelerated standing track nursing program at Queen’s University. I chose nursing because I believe in providing safe, compassionate, equitable and ethical care to underserved populations. I have come to learn that nursing is an intersectional profession, as nurses […]
Angela Soulsby
Tylenol Bacc Award I am Standing Strong Spirit Womxn from the Marten Clan. I am Anishinaabe/Métis from Treaty 1 territory. I grew up in an environment without safety or nurturing support systems as a direct result of Historical and generational trauma. My parents were haunted by their childhoods and my grandmother died at 55 after […]
Courage Osa-Nappier
Tylenol Bacc Award My name is Courage Osa-Nappier and I am a nursing student at the University of Prince Edward Island in PEI, Canada. I decided to become a nurse because of my passion for making a positive impact in people’s lives. I like to improve and encourage good healthy living and I thrive to […]
Harsimrit Lakhyan
Tylenol Bacc Award My path to nursing has not been linear; I first completed a degree in biology graduating from University of Calgary in 2019. After completing this degree, I reflected on the experiences I had with nurses when my mother was battling cancer. The compassion, care, and kindness demonstrated by these nurses inspired me […]
Abigail Otu
Tylenol Bacc Award The nursing profession has a plethora of career paths and specialties to study and explore (e.g., ICU, pediatrics, labor and delivery). I am someone who is always looking to embark on new endeavors and step out of their comfort zone. Therefore, being able to have that kind of flexibility is extremely important […]
Linda-Ann Elobuike
Tylenol Bacc Award As an immigrant starting over is never easy. However, I decided to go all in and pursue my childhood dream of becoming a nurse. As a young child, my life was upended due to a medical situation in my family, and I saw firsthand the importance of a good healthcare system. Still, […]
Sabrina Lyons
Sharon Nield Memorial Award The past 12 years of nursing I have worked in a diverse amount of health care settings from nursing in Australia for two years to volunteering in a maternity clinic in Fiji, and the last 4.5 years I have been happily employed in the Canadian Rockies as a Licensed Practical Nurse […]
Véronique Drouin
Alumnae Association of the Royal Victoria Hospital Training School for Nurses Scholarship Caring for people in their vulnerable moments is something I learned as a first responder in my hometown of Roxton Pond. For more than 6 years, I tended to urgent medical calls on 911 until the paramedics arrived. By getting on the scene […]