Nursing Education at Northern Health

Nurturing and developing opportunities for the staff of the future is the linchpin of Northern Health's approach to teaching and patient care. Northern Health has a major teaching facility at The Northern Hospital and provides education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. We have a dedicated Education Centre who support Registered Nurses in obtaining and maintaining current clinical and academic knowledge to assist in the delivery of quality, timely appropriate patient care. The Education Centre provides support, education and career advancement opportunities to more than 800 nurses employed by Northern Health.  We provide programs in formats as diverse as half hour inservice education sessions to 1 year post registration courses.

Education sessions are open to all nurses employed by Northern Health's five campuses and all affiliated local nursing homes and hostels. Education is free of charge to all Northern Health Employees.

The education programs are continually being evaluated to ensure that we are meeting the needs of our nursing population.

Each year we conduct needs analysis surveys of our nursing staff to help us to plan the education programs to meet their needs. As education is always changing and evolving and we are flexible and ready to meet the challenge.

In 2011 we will offer:

-	General Graduate Transition to Practice Program
-	Midwifery Graduate Nurse Program

Other programs offered include:

-	an 8 week ECG Interpretation short course
-	an Infection Control short course
-	more than 15 full day study programs, and
-	approximately 120 half-hour inservice sessions