Jessy Dame
TD Indigenous Nurse and Youth Diabetes and/or Mental Health Care Research Program Award I wanted to start by thanking the TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund. My name is Jessy Dame, and I am a proud Two-Spirit Métis Registered Nurse. Though my Cree ancestry is from Manitoba, I was raised in Abbotsford, British Columbia and give thanks […]
Jessica Key
TD Indigenous Nurse and Youth Diabetes and/or Mental Health Care Research Program Award I am a registered nurse and a citizen of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw people, from the Unceded territory of BCs central coast. I grew up in Yellowknife and have lived on Coast Salish territory for the past 15 years. My clinical background is in […]
Courtland Fox
Anita George Nursing Award One of my passions for my future nursing career, is to contribute to eliminating the inequity of healthcare in First Nations communities. Since, I grew up in a First Nations community myself, I saw first hand, the lacking in healthcare that First Nations communities face. I also believe that there is […]
Carly Thomson
Northern Nursing Award My name is Carly Thomson and my pronouns are she/her. I grew up in Labrador where I gained many firsthand experiences with the health care system in isolated communities. I have one year left of my Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Dalhousie University and I am eager to become a […]
Pamela Baxter
Pamela Baxter RN PhD Investigator Project: Nurse leaders in LTC: Preventing, Identifying, Managing and Reporting Resident-to-Resident Aggression This study will describe nurse leaders’ experiences with, and responses to, resident-to-resident aggression in long term care in Ontario Canada. The study will include 12-15 formal nurse leader interviews. Data collection and analysis will occur concurrently and be […]
Anne Clark’s Story
[red-button url=”https://www.imakeanonlinedonation.org/cnf-fiic/OD/”]Donate[/red-button] “I had just had my 12th birthday. During the day I had been outside playing with my friends. That night I had a slight fever and an itchy back. My next memory was being delirious and being driven by ambulance to the hospital. When I woke up the next day, I was in […]
Gitane Ouellet
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award My dream of becoming a nurse came to be over ten years ago after the difficult birth of my first child who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. After my second child was born, I became sick with Myalgic encephalomyelitis. With never-ending support from my parents, I found my footing and […]
Christina Chakanyuka
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – PhD I am an Indigenous Metis woman born and raised on Dene/Cree territory in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories. I am currently enrolled in full-time PhD studies in nursing at the University of Victoria while working part-time as an Assistant Professor. Growing up in a small […]
Holly Tschirhart
AstraZeneca Award My name is Holly Tschirhart and I have been a Registered Nurse since 2011. After studying human kinetics in my undergraduate degree, I decided to return to school to pursue nursing. I was fascinated with physiology, anatomy, and pharmacology and I wanted join the nursing profession where I could connect this knowledge to […]
Jennifer Cano
Roasters Indigenous Nursing Fund Prior to pursuing my nursing degree, I completed my undergraduate and Master’s in Health Sciences at University of Ottawa. My Master’s thesis focused on women’s sexual and reproductive health services, specifically in rural, remote, and northern regions of Canada. I spent the past two years in Kenora in Northwestern Ontario, where […]