New toolkit is helping create dementia-inclusive communities in BC
UBC Okanagan research is for communities hoping to create compassionate, dementia-inclusive spaces for meaningful connections
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Case management focus of new nursing micro-credential
UBC Okanagan’s School of Nursing is now accepting applications for […]
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Global nursing pathways lead Canadian students to Zambia
UBC Okanagan’s Global Health Practicum gives students the skills they need to be caring and capable nurses.
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Do What Makes Your Heart Sing
My job is to provide good, safe information to primary care providers and others. With this knowledge they may feel empowered to screen and advise patients on preventive measures. Amanda Annett zoomed in on the human heart. Her interest in its eloquent and essential function began in her third-year practicum placement on the cardiac unit […]
Learning Opportunity: Restorative Approach Micro-Credential Course
Foundations for a Restorative Approach: Health Care Harm and Wellbeing, a new UBC Okanagan micro-credential course answers the urgent call from health care leaders across BC to shift towards a more holistic and healing approach to address health care harm and promote wellbeing in our health care system. “A Restorative Approach is respectful and relational […]
UBCO takes steps to address gap in primary health care
New post-degree certificate builds nurses’ expertise to practice in primary care settings
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UBCO nursing students host annual Global Health Gala
Gala supports health-care needs with partners in Ghana and Zambia
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Insomnia therapy reduces postpartum depression, study shows
A recent study by UBCO researchers showed that moms who received cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTI) during pregnancy experienced fewer depressive symptoms after giving birth.
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Alum Selected a 2024 Canada’s Most Powerful Woman
Congratulations, Dr. Rachel Ollivier, 2016 BSN alumnus, on being recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network. Dr. Ollivier is a nurse practitioner and women’s health scientist at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre and the Women’s Health Research Institute. In these roles, she provides care to […]
Nursing Alum Finds Her Niche as Entrepreneur
2017 BSN alumnus Erika Wiklund practiced in a variety of nursing roles before finding her bliss as co-owner and operator of Organic Glow Medical Aesthetics. Our skin’s health is more than skin deep. As Erika Wiklund, 2017 Bachelor of Science in Nursing alumnus, explains, “So much is connected to our skin’s health. It is a […]