Anne Summach NP

by Anne Summach, NP One thing that has been clear over the past 10 months, Alberta’s healthcare system is under greater pressure than every before. The COVID-19 pandemic arrived on a foundation of healthcare worker unrest, pending retirements, and threats of physician exodus from the province. Out of the ashes, Nurse Practitioners have risen to […]

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 […]