NPAA Blog

Spotlight on Seniors Health: Nurse Practitioner Faye Lazar Author: Merissa May, NP Faye completed her initial RN program in Windsor, Ontario at the Salvation Army Grace Hospital School of Nursing. This was followed by a Diploma in Public Health Nursing from the University of Windsor and initial employment at the Salvation Army Grace Hospital. She […]

The Nurse Practitioner Association of Alberta has been on quite a journey since it’s inauguration in 2004. The creation of the organization was spearheaded, and privately funded, by Mary Nugent from Taber, Alberta who believed in the importance of association for the profession. Mary worked along with a core of NPs including Gwen Moncayo (currently […]

We had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Teddie Tanguay, Past President of the NPAA, an NP in the Royal Alexandra Hospital Intensive Care Unit. The goal of our interview was to understand some of the complexity of the NP role in this setting, what drives NPs to specialize in this area, and how the Nurse […]

What an exciting horizon – launching a platform for written expression by Nurse Practitioners in Alberta! As the profession grows and develops here in Canada’s west, it is appropriate to have a medium to connect with each other, other professions, and the public whom we serve. Nurse Practitioners are traditionally pioneers, reaching out to remote […]