Boosting Primary Care: UVic Expands Nurse Practitioner Program with New Provincial Funding

by Madison F. | Oct 4, 2024 | News, UVicSpace

September 23, 2024 | Victoria News via UVic News New provincial funding of $532,500 has been allocated to the University of Victoria (UVic) to expand its Master of Science in Nursing – Nurse Practitioner program. This funding will allow UVic to train 15 additional...

Construction d’un laboratoire “de pointe” à Vancouver pour lutter contre le cancer

by Amelia Ritchie | Feb 6, 2024 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

January 30, 2024 | CBC Radio-Canada via UVic News A new cyclotron and radiopharmacy laboratory is currently being installed on the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. The lab, whose goal is to help the fight against cancer in British Columbia, is...

Featured Dissertation: Managing the eroding public health nurse role

by Stephanie Boulogne | Jun 8, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

“When it is no longer your call”, a PhD dissertation in the School of Nursing, by Megan Elise Kirk https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11785 Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explain how public health renewal has shaped public health...

Featured Project: Nursing emergency preparedness education

by Stephanie Boulogne | Apr 2, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

This 2012 project by Stephanie Trowbridge, submitted as part of the Masters of Nursing – Advanced Practice Leadership, asks the question, “Nursing emergency preparedness education: Why do nurses need it? Do nurses have this knowledge?” Abstract: A...

New program provides mobile end-of-life support to people in poverty

by Danice Szabo | Oct 1, 2019 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

September, 2019 | UVic News & UVic News In 2 recent UVic News articles, Dr. Kelli Stajduhar has been recognized for her work in developing a Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) in Victoria. ‘The Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) is a collaboration of...