writing portfolio

I’ve been a freelance writer with a specialization in health for the past ten years.  I  have the ability to take photos to accompany my articles. I also have experience coaching families to tell and write their own health stories.

My two personal essays published in the Globe and Mail are here.  Here’s my writing portfolio:

  • A feature in CLPNA’s CARE magazine – The Northern Advantage in the Winter 2012 issue.
  • Our Families Talk (as part of my contract with the Stollery Children’s Hospital).  Published in Hospital News, and co-written with Karen Klak and Linda McConnan.
  • It’s about the people:  nursing in the inner city.  A feature about Ashley Schwanke and her clients at the Streetworks needle exchange program.
  • Meaningful Engagement or Tokenism?  An article published in Australia’s Health Issues Journal.
  • A piece about the LPN role expansion at the University of Alberta Hospitals - Transforming Care (page 9).
  • It’s Easy Being Green (page 14) – an article in CARE about environmental initiatives undertaken by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses and their partners.
  • Rhoda Blooms (page 16) -a profile about a remarkable nurse, and her experience with addiction and recovery.
  • Two stories in Care magazine - one co-written about the Dialysis Bus, and a profile on nurse Larry Leduc and his experiences in Haiti.
  • February 2010 – where I write about writing for Edmonton Stories.
  • A feature called Myth Busters, about nurses working in continuing care.  I provided both the words and the photos for this piece.  (Page 8).
  • In Care magazine’s summer 09 issue, the cover feature about the Perioperative Nursing Program. (Scroll down to page 8).
  • The spring issue of CLPNA’s Care magazine contains two of my articles.  One called Care in the Air (page 7) and the other a short piece on a woman named Emma, who is 102 years old (page 21).
  • The College of Licenced Practical Nurses has a new magazine called Care.  I wrote the feature for it in the fall 2008 issue, about LPN and ortho tech Dave Dearden - called From Trucks to Scrubs (page 18).
  • The Primary Care Initiative new website has been launched.  I wrote the feature story - Paving the Way for Prenatal Care.
  • New article!  Edmonton’s Child magazine - A Primer:  Choosy Childcare.  Scroll down to page 24.
  • News and Views, Alberta’s LPNs’ professional magazine, page 16.   A profile on an LPN working in primary care.
  • The Edmonton Journal, ed magazine - article called Misconceptions about Contraception
  • The Advocate magazine -profile on Primary Care Network mental health coordinators
  • Edmonton’s Child magazine – articles about Early InterventionNew Mom’s Network
  • Hospital News – piece about Alberta’s Primary Care Networks.
  • Legacy Magazine, Winter 2006.  A profile on composer John Estacio.
  • Globe and Mail Facts & Arguments
  • Your Health magazine - features on Primary Health Caresex educationGene Chip technologyart therapy
  • Food for Thought- health articles on diabetesfibre, a day in the life of a veterinarian, profile on a dinner prep company.

One thought on “writing portfolio

  1. okay so now I’ve read thiese to my husband and kids and I’m still crying…and I’m not much of a crier either…only when things touch my heart!

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