Stories

Vancouver, February 6, 2016 – With a proud tradition of compassionate care for society’s most vulnerable, Providence Health Care continues to lead the way as an exceptional place to work. The health organization has been chosen as one of BC’s Top Employers for 2016, selected from hundreds of companies.

In January 2015, Jasmine McEachern volunteered to join the emergency response efforts in Sierra Leone following the outbreak of Ebola in that country. McEachern, a primary care nurse at the John Ruedy Immunodeficiency Clinic and clinical research associate at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul’s Hospital, spoke to Promise upon her return from six weeks in Lunsar, a town in the northern province of Sierra Leone.

How did your work at St. Paul’s influence your decision to go to Sierra Leone?

In follow up to last week’s story, I sat down with 3 of St. Paul’s Employee Student Nurses (ESN's) and chatted about their experience here at St. Paul’s. Chantel Rasmussen is in her 4th year at Douglas College and was hired to work on Medicine 7C. Laura Li, also of Douglas College, goes in to her final preceptorship in September. Laura was hired to work on 10C which deals mostly with infectious diseases.

Scott Harrison, who has been with PHC since 2008, officially formed the Aboriginal Health Team in 2011.

As Director of HIV/AIDS, Urban Health & Addiction Services, Scott recognized that a leader with some ability to remove barriers and support system level changes needed to hold the space for Aboriginal health; a role which he subsequently took on for a number of reasons.

In celebration of our Recognition theme on Bloom this month, we'd like to congratulate Rick Luscombe on his Excellence in Nursing Administration Award from the Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists!

How did you end up where you are now?
I attended George Brown College in Ontario for nursing. I first started in renal work at Toronto Western back in 1985 where I was working in peritoneal dialysis and transplants. After a few years I became a hemodialysis nurse and I fell in love with my work.