Alumni
Whether it's been a few months or a few years since you've last been to campus, you'll always be a part of our family.
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Meet our Alumni
Perinatal Nurse, Public Health Nurse & Nurse Researcher
Angela currently works as both a perinatal nurse and a public health nurse with Island Health. She also continues to pursue research opportunities with current projects focusing on actionable strategies for reducing horizontal violence in nursing and teaching to enable an emancipatory nurse identity in undergraduate nurse education. Read more
BSN with distinction - 2016
Registered Nurse
Melissa is a registered nurse with a strong desire to create meaningful change and sustainability in the healthcare system, both locally and internationally. This drive for change is strongly influenced by her years working in the emergency room, where she was able to identify multiple issues which required innovation and creativity to deliver excellent care. She has also served a two-year term on the board of directors for the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. Melissa is dedicated to reducing inefficiencies in healthcare, using her perspective as a direct care provider, to ensure that people, families and communities have the services that they need.
BSN - 2013
Care Coordinator Medical Assistance in Dying & Nurse Researcher
Rosanne is currently involved in research projects about the experience of living with advanced illness and nurses' experience with assisted dying. In the Care Coordinator role for assisted dying, she focuses on ensuring access and promoting understanding about this new end of life care option in Canada. Rosanne is passionate about kindness and compassion in nursing, health care, and in life. Her PhD honed her skills as a narrative researcher where she has focused on persons aging with HIV, with an emphasis on metaphor and language, spirituality, and death and dying.
PhD - Nursing (2014)
Researcher and Assistant Professor
Kara’s research focus is on enhancement of quality of life for people living with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, particularly chronic kidney disease. A major component of her research involves the use of electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) with dialysis patients, and how these reports can be fully used in their multidisciplinary care. Her overarching goal is to learn how to best support clinicians and administrators in using ePRO information to enhance quality of life, enrich person-centred care, and improve services for people living with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. Read more
PhD - Nursing (2011)
Assistant Professor
Wanda teaches community health nursing to undergraduate students and research to graduate nursing students. The focus of her nursing research is on food systems, specifically urban agriculture as a means for creating sustainable livelihoods. Wanda is concerned with the effects of climate change and works on the ecological and social determinants of health. She is also engaged in structural and governance issues in public health, as the President of the Saskatchewan Public Health Association (2015-2018) and Vice President of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (2016-2018), and is planning research in public health systems and services. Read more
PhD - Nursing (2014)
RN
Helping someone end their life may seem like a compassionate act, but it’s fraught with legal and ethical complications, as well as emotional and faith-based arguments that have challenged society from the beginning of time.
Now Canadian law permits physicians and nurse practitioners to provide medical assistance in dying (MAiD). RNs can play a valuable supportive role in this regard, however, Cedar McMechan, 29, wanted to know more about that role and the frontline experiences of her fellow RNs.
Sarah Adair, Nurse Practitioner (NP) and UVic graduate with the class of 2019, now works as a Primary Care Provider at the West Shore Primary Care Centre in Colwood. Her first day was January 6, 2020, marking the Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
Having invested eleven years of education and work experience to prepare for this role – a four year undergraduate degree completed at UVic, a one year critical care specialty program with BCIT, a two year master’s program with UVic, plus working as an RN in the Emergency Department at the Royal Jubilee Hospital for four years – Adair not only feels ready, she can’t wait to take on full responsibility.