Calling All Nurses Episode 6 - Laura Hoyseth with the Pandemic and Public Health
05/17/23 • 39 min
Public health, in general and at all levels, focus on health promotion, disease and injury prevention, primary health care, and population health. Two primary distinguishing factors of public health from other components of the health system are the focus on populations as a whole, and health promotion, prevention, and control of disease and injury rather than treatment of diseases. Listen as Laura describes how public health nurses were able to do what they do best in the most challenging of times, creating change and making history during the worldwide health emergency, called a pandemic.
Laura Hoyseth is a Registered Nurse of mixed settler ancestry living in the traditional and unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation, where she’s had the privilege to raise her family for 26 years. Laura began her career as a Community Health Nurse for the Wuikinuxv, Dzawada'enuxw and Homalco Nations, providing nursing care and community development support in Indigenous led health care systems. Alongside this work, Laura worked in Community and Acute Care Mental Health and Primary Health Care Nursing with a focus on Chronic Pain Management. These rich community experiences and teachings fed her passion for Health Promotion and Prevention, eventually leading to a focus on Public Health Nursing with a scope including perinatal, infant, school aged and adult health with a specialization in reproductive health certified practice. During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Laura was a front line Public Health Nursing Clinical Coordinator responding to the Pandemic as it unfolded and leading teams to roll out the COVID 19 Immunization program. Laura is currently a Regional Immunization Operations Clinical Coordinator within the Population and Public Health portfolio at Island Health. Laura’s work is focused on translating overarching global, national and provincial health promotion and prevention goals to front line Public Health services within communities across the region. Laura is passionate about the profession and discipline of nursing, and its place in healthcare transformation.
Public Health Agency of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
BC Centre for Disease Control: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
Comments and feedback can be sent to our email: [email protected]
Public health, in general and at all levels, focus on health promotion, disease and injury prevention, primary health care, and population health. Two primary distinguishing factors of public health from other components of the health system are the focus on populations as a whole, and health promotion, prevention, and control of disease and injury rather than treatment of diseases. Listen as Laura describes how public health nurses were able to do what they do best in the most challenging of times, creating change and making history during the worldwide health emergency, called a pandemic.
Laura Hoyseth is a Registered Nurse of mixed settler ancestry living in the traditional and unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation, where she’s had the privilege to raise her family for 26 years. Laura began her career as a Community Health Nurse for the Wuikinuxv, Dzawada'enuxw and Homalco Nations, providing nursing care and community development support in Indigenous led health care systems. Alongside this work, Laura worked in Community and Acute Care Mental Health and Primary Health Care Nursing with a focus on Chronic Pain Management. These rich community experiences and teachings fed her passion for Health Promotion and Prevention, eventually leading to a focus on Public Health Nursing with a scope including perinatal, infant, school aged and adult health with a specialization in reproductive health certified practice. During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Laura was a front line Public Health Nursing Clinical Coordinator responding to the Pandemic as it unfolded and leading teams to roll out the COVID 19 Immunization program. Laura is currently a Regional Immunization Operations Clinical Coordinator within the Population and Public Health portfolio at Island Health. Laura’s work is focused on translating overarching global, national and provincial health promotion and prevention goals to front line Public Health services within communities across the region. Laura is passionate about the profession and discipline of nursing, and its place in healthcare transformation.
Public Health Agency of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
BC Centre for Disease Control: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
Comments and feedback can be sent to our email: [email protected]
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Calling All Nurses Episode 5 - Josh Duncan with Acute Care and New Graduate Transitions
In 2019, in response to the Nightingale Challenge, a global initiative encouraging health employers to provide leadership development for new nurses and midwives throughout 2020, Island Health and the University of Victoria joined forces, establishing the New Graduate RN Council. The purpose of the New Graduate RN Council is providing new nurses with opportunities to contribute to and be mentored in leadership, governance, and change. (Island Health, 2020). Building on the research of Judy Boychuk Duchscher, who studied new graduate transitions, the New Grad RN Council seeks to understand and support new graduates through the transition process from education to practice. Josh Duncan chairs the New Grad RN Council and will talk about both transitions of new grads as well as mentorship, leadership, and working as a new nurse during a global pandemic and why intravenous starts are not the most important skill in nursing.
Josh Duncan has been a registered nurse for five years, having worked primarily in Med/Surg and the ICU. He is passionate about new graduate nurse advocacy, transition to practice, and baking the ultimate pie. Although blackberry pie will always be one of his personal favourites, his caramel apple and chocolate cherry pies are forces to be reckoned with.
Island Health Grad Transition Infogram:
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/careers/documents/new-grad-transition-stages.pdf
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
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Calling All Nurses Episode 7 - Colleen Salter and First Nations Health and Wellness
The First Nations Health Authority [FNHA] is the first and only provincial health authority in Canada, working to transform and reform the way health care is delivered to First Nations people in BC. The FNHA works towards the health and wellness of all First Nations in BC through its unique approach to wellness and its support of community wellness activities. ( FNHA, 2023).
Colleen Salter is a graduate of NIC Bachelor Science in Nursing 2014 and has since completed a Master of Leadership (Health concentration) at Royal Roads University. Colleen currently works with the First Nations Health Authority as Director, Mental Wellness Clinical Services and lives on the unceded lands of the Kwakwaka’waka peoples. When not working, Colleen is dragon boating or enjoying the outdoors biking and hiking.
First Nations Health Authority:
https://www.fnha.ca/what-we-do
UNDRIP: United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples - https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
In Plain Sight Full Report: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/613/2020/11/In-Plain-Sight-Full-Report-2020.pdf
The Village Workshop Series: https://villageworkshopseries.com/
Medicine Unbundled: https://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/medicine-unbundled/
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