Academic title: Associate Professor

Contact Information

Office: Y461
Email: hmyllykoski@mtroyal.ca
Phone: 403.440.8654

Education 
MHSc, Charles Sturt University
MN, Athabasca
BN, University of Calgary
BPE, University of Calgary
RN, Foothills Hospital School of Nursing

Helena has been teaching undergraduate students for thirty years at MRU while continuing her clinical practice in the community, focused on primary care as a Nurse Practitioner. Her passion in practice and academia concerns mental health and addiction as special interest topics in health care and within the broader community. Clinical work has taken her beyond Canada and into Canadian Indigenous communities, where her aims have always been in developing collaborative relationships with community members.

Areas of Instruction

Teaching in all years of the Bachelor of Nursing program, her specialized focus in mental health and addiction has led her to develop courses in General Education that focus on addiction and addiction responses in our communities.

• Mental Health, Addictions
• Community Health
• Medical Surgical Nursing
• Primary Care
• Indigenous Health

• Indigenous Health
• Primary Care
• Addiction and Mental Health
• Harm Reduction Housing
• Broad Reconciliation 

Teaching Pattern

Selected Publications
Editor Team — Shah, C.P. (2019) Public Health and Preventative Medicine in Canada, 6th Ed., Toronto: Elsevier — 2018

Chapter Editor — Canadian Jensen’s Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins — 2019

Selected Presentations
Addiction: Conversation in the Context of Social Change – Mount Royal University Faculty Association Retreat — April 2019, Kananaskis, Alberta (Role: Presenter)

Course Developer — Continuing Education, Mount Royal University, Advanced Topics in Mental Health, Addictions and High Risk Populations, Community Paramedicine Extension Certificate (February 2019) (Role: Course Author/Developer/Instructor)

Richardson, D., Myllykoski, H. & Dosani, A. (February 28, 2019). Nursing Outside the Box: What TB Can Tell Us About Global Health and the Power of Nurses to Change the World. Mount Royal University Public Talk. Calgary, AB. (Role: Invited Panel Discussant)

Dancing with Flower — WildSmart presentation, Canmore, Alberta, June 2019 — (Role: Presenter)

Relevant Community Service

• Nurse Practitioner — Primary Care Provider, Simon House Residential Addiction Treatment
• Registered Nurse — Alberta Health Services, Mental Health and Addictions, Forensic Mental Health
• Psychiatric Emergency Services
• Forensic Psychiatric Practice