GHCS News

Our dear Leanne Rowand has been awarded the UVIC NP Preceptor of the Year Award. She was nominated by a student, and seconded by the entire NP Committee as exemplifying the best in preceptorship.She share this award with nurse practitioner Tracey Adams.

Each year as appropriate, the NP Program Subcommittee will recognize a preceptor to receive the NP Program Preceptor-of-the-Year Award to be presented at the Nursing Week Alumni Luncheon. Each person recognized will have made a consistent and substantial contribution to NP student learning during at least one preceding year of the nomination date. Contributions might include such things as:

• going over and above expectations in promoting student learning and achievement
• serving as an outstanding role model for NP practice
• promoting the NP role among colleagues
• demonstrating excellence in teaching/learning as a preceptor

If you go to the School of Nursing website (http://nursing.uvic.ca/), you can take a look at last year’s recipient.

This year, for the first [Read More…]

We are saying goodbye to Medical Office Assistant Kimberly, who is leaving us this week for new frontiers.  We wish Kim the best of luck and it was wonderful to have you work for the Galiano Health Care Society.  Alex  is returning to us from maternity leave, and will be back at the front desk starting April 4th.  Lori and Jackie will also staff the desk, so please have a smile for these women who work very hard for all the patients at the clinic.

This beautiful New York Beauty Quilt is 66” x 76” and has been created by the Galiano Needle Guild. Raffle tickets went on sale on April 15 and the draw took place on August 13th. This was to raise money for the Galiano Health Care Society.

Bonnie Robson won the quilt. Bonnie has been a supporter of the Galiano Health Care Society for many years. Congratulations Bonnie and thank you to all who bought tickets to support your local health care.

As noted in last month’s Active Page article, medical care on Galiano before the 1980s was carried out  by visiting doctors  from other islands or by semi-retired resident doctors working out of their own homes.  Whether your illness or accident coincided with the presence of a doctor on island was a matter of luck.  In 1984, a group of residents organized themselves with the aim of creating a more permanent location for the delivery of health care here, and finally in 1991, after much energetic fundraising and leaping through of bureaucratic hoops, the present Health Care Centre was opened.

As the early organizers had hoped, the building has over the years been used by a variety of health care professionals, including the doctor, locums whenever a doctor was unavailable, the nurse practitioner, the lab technician, and also by a dentist, hygienist, chiropractor, podiatrist, massage therapist, and a physiotherapist.  A fully equipped emergency room and [Read More…]