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Barbara Fagan

Barbara Fagan
BScN, RN, CNCC(C)
Middle Sackville, NS
Registered Nurses Professional Development Centre
Capital Health

I graduated from Dalhousie University with my Baccalaureate in Nursing in 1991.  After two years of great medical surgical experience, my thirst for knowledge called me to enroll in the Critical Care Nursing Program at the Post RN programs in Nova Scotia.  Critical care nursing has become my passion ever since and I have not looked back.  I was blessed with 15 years of amazing intensive care experience – as a staff member, preceptor and charge nurse.  Twenty years later with a wonderful husband and three fabulous children I am even more called to our profession.  For the past three years I have had the privilege of being an instructor for the Critical Care Nursing Program with the RN-PDC (Registered Nurses Professional Development Centre) what was formerly part of the Post RN program in Nova Scotia.   It is funny how things come full circle in life.

I am currently enrolled in the Masters of Nursing program at Athabasca University.  I have been an active CACCN member and have had the privilege to present at the 2009 and 2010 Dynamics conferences.  My colleagues and I were the fortunate recipients of the 2009 Spacelabs Innovation Award for our work on Creating Life-long Critical Care thinkers.  We presented our findings of implementing a progressive teaching methodology called Team–Based Learning in our programming.   In 2010 we presented our innovative interprofessional Simulation Lab team training.  Working together with all members of the health care team to our full scopes of practice is another passion of mine. I am a member of our local Nova Scotia chapter and have participated in local meetings and education sessions.  I am looking forward to our province hosting Dynamics in 2013.

I would be honored to represent the voice of Critical Care Nursing in the Eastern Region and privileged to work with National Board of Directors at CACCN.