Mount Royal University School of Nursing News & Events

A leader in innovative teaching strategies and outstanding practical instruction, Mount Royal University’s School of Nursing prepares students to make a difference in the health and well-being of Canadians. Below are some examples of current faculty research. Welcome to the Mount Royal University School of Nursing.

Here's a look at the incredible projects presented at Mount Royal University's Community Health Nursing Course Conference

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Save the Date!
Second Annual Nursing Professional Practice Conference
August 28th, 2012

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You are invited to join the Second Annual Professional Practice Conference hosted by the Mount Royal University School of Nursing and Alberta Health Services.

The Theme of the 2012 conference is “Advancing Nursing Practice through Change, Innovation and Creativity”.

More information and Conference Registration

Registration: $50.00

 
 

Mar. 2, 2012
MRU and U of C Nursing Students band together for Calgary Nursing Student Week
Nursing students from the School of Nursing at Mount Royal University and the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary will launch their own Calgary Nursing Student Week beginning Mon., March 5 to draw attention to nursing student capabilities and celebrate their future profession.
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Jan. 26, 2012
Calgary's South hospital raises staffing concerns
MRU's School of Nursing Chair, Lynne Judd, was recently interviewed on the topic.
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Dec. 21, 2011
Bringing smiles to children and families in Peru
Spies, who along with her role at Mount Royal also works as a nurse in the burn unit at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, had the opportunity to join a group of medical professionals to perform burn scar revisions on 33 Peruvian children at the end of Sept. 2011. Her team, including surgeons, operating room nurses, respiratory therapists and anesthetists, spent six 14-16 hour days operating in a local hospital alongside the Peruvian medical staff as part of Project Outreach, a charity organized by doctors at the Children’s Hospital.
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October 31, 2011
National Conversation and Speak Up for a Healthy Canada
The Commission plans to make recommendations related to ways in which the health system can be transformed to focus on quality care in both community and institutional settings.
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Apr. 8, 2011
Simulation centre 'blows your mind'
Mount Royal University opened a new Nursing Simulation Learning Centre Thursday where nursing students can use mannequins known as Human Patient Simulators to learn.
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Jan. 27, 2011
Nurse by day, curling star by night
Derek Clark is a fourth-year nursing student at Mount Royal University. He will be one of the very first graduates of Mount Royal’s Bachelor of Nursing Program in June 2011.
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Jan. 20, 2011
MRU Nursing faculty go off the map
Andrea Bridge and Barb Astle hope more students begin to think globally.
Two professors from Mount Royal University’s School of Nursing are bringing their international experiences back to classrooms here in Calgary to expose nursing students to different ways of interacting with different cultures.
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Nov. 25, 2010
Researching Epidurals and RN's roles
“This study will showcase RNs and how important their role is,” says Quance, who has over 30 years of nursing experience. “We in the business know how crucial RNs are in the birth and delivery process because we live it every day, but not very many others do.”
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Pediatric Nursing at Mount Royal University 
Professor Andrea Pritchard’s research into how children with chronic illnesses understand the role they play in their own health care has now moved into the curriculum of the Pediatric Nursing course at Mount Royal University.
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Teaching and Learning Scholars Program
Joanna Szabo Hart, PhD
Title: Building capacities and resiliency in lifelong learning: Exploring the tensions between the expectations and assumptions of adult learners in their fourth year of an undergraduate Canadian nursing program and the philosophical underpinnings of curriculum delivery.
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Positive Parenting
Parenting is as old as humanity, but positive parenting skills often need to be learned. Professor Linda Binding, PhD, is helping Aboriginal parents hoping to reconnect with their teenagers through a research grant from the Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research.
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The Social Organization of the Right to Mental Health and Development
Professor Sonya Jakubec presented her PhD research, which is an institutional ethnography of the social organization of the right to mental health and development, at the International Conference on Realizing the Right to Health and Development for All held in Ha Noi, Vietnam from Oct. 26-29, 2009.
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English as an Additional Language Nursing Students
Liza Choi, RN, BN, MN brings to Mount Royal University a keen interest in multicultural health and studying the processes by which English as an Additional Language (EAL) nursing students acquire academic English language and nursing competency. By further researching the underlying processes that lead to acquiring language and nursing competencies, Liza is working to establish effective nursing education programs to meet the needs of EAL students and the patients they will ultimately care for.
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