Jonas Caladio
RBC Diversity in Nursing Fund Award Nursing is a blessed profession because we are able to witness a birth of a child and a death of a person. I find this profession as a calling rather than a choice. When I was in high school, I really enjoyed our science class because it talks about […]
Velna Clarke Arnault
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – PhD I was born in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan, a small northern fur-trading community. My mother was Cree Métis and my father was the son of an Irish immigrant. I graduated from the local school after fighting the educational system to get into nursing after graduation. My nursing diploma is […]
Tikicia Joyce
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate I grew up on Vancouver Island but have lived the last 15 years in the beautiful Okanagan with my two children. A single mother and school secretary for many years, I have just recently remarried and am entering year three of the four year Bachelor of Science in […]
Nicole Dutchak
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate This year will be my second year as a CNF scholar. It has been my dream since I was much younger to work as a healthcare professional. My Nana was a registered nurse. She was someone I always looked up to. I chose the career path of Registered […]
Jillian Ryan
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate I am a member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation band and a second year nursing student. I am completing a Bachelor of Nursing degree via the fast track stream at the Western Regional School of Nursing in my hometown of Corner Brook, NL. I have previously obtained […]
Jasmine Murchison-Perley
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate As a young girl I often made my parents “play nurse”, which was an event where I would apply an unnecessary amount of Band-Aids to their “wounds”—from day one, I wanted to be a nurse. I have been fortunate to have influential role models in the health care […]
Janelle Carrière
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate I have just completed my first year as a nursing student at the University of Saint-Boniface. I can proudly say that I can’t see myself being as engaged in any profession as much as I am in nursing. The nursing profession has always been dear to my heart. […]
Jacqueline Valois
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – PhD I am a proud First Nations band member of Saskatchewan and I currently reside in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. In 2012, I graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. I am currently pursuing the Doctorate of Philosophy in Nursing through the University […]
Holly Cowan
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Master’s I am from the Cayuga Nation, Turtle Clan of Six Nations of the Grand River. I never set out thinking that I wanted to be a nurse, but it just so happened that the Mohawk College was offering the practical nursing program for the first time as a […]
Darian Brown
TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund Award – Baccalaureate I am a fourth year nursing student at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton campus. My aspiration to become a nurse came from various life experiences. When I was a child, my grandfather had multiple health problems and toward the end of his journey, he became ill with […]