UNA Local 115 Foothills Medical Centre - Page

UNA Local 115 Foothills Medical Centre - Page Local 115 serves UNA members @ FMC Hospital, U of C (Faculty of Medicine), GWHC, Fanning & NW Dialys Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

UNA Local 115 serves the Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) Hospital. The Foothills Hospital operates in partnership with several local medical facilities including the University of Calgary (Faculty of Medicine), the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Grace Women’s Health Centre, South Calgary Dialysis / Urgent Care / Mental Health and Fanning Dialysis. FMC has 700 beds and also features a 24-hour emergency department.

Spotlight 🔦on your UNA contract📑.Document your job
04/12/2026

Spotlight 🔦on your UNA contract📑.
Document your job

From The Calgary Journal
04/12/2026

From The Calgary Journal

Understanding facts and myths, and practitioner experience may help us envision what nurses, and your future might have ...
04/11/2026

Understanding facts and myths, and practitioner experience may help us envision what nurses, and your future might have in store. Join us to review the book, then grab some popcorn, watch an episode, and see what the chatter is about.

The book “This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor” provides comical yet terrifying insights into a healthcare system that is part private, part public.

Conversation on publicly funded, publicly delivered care has never been so critical.

Reserve your seat now and join the dialogue! Registration on DMS
Seating & popcorn: 17:00
Screening @ 17:15-21:00
SARO 60 Uxborough Place NW

Today is National Indigenous Nurses Day. On April 10, United Nurses of Alberta celebrates the work of Indigenous nurses ...
04/10/2026

Today is National Indigenous Nurses Day. On April 10, United Nurses of Alberta celebrates the work of Indigenous nurses in Alberta and throughout Canada.

Indigenous Nurses Day is marked on April 10 in honour of Edith Monture, a Kanien’kehà:ka woman who was the first Indigenous Registered Nurse in Canada and the first to gain the right to vote in a Canadian federal election. She was born on this day in 1890 on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve near Brantford, Ont.

Sadly, Monture had to train as a nurse in the United States because no Canadian nursing school would accept her because of her race. She graduated as a Registered Nurse from the New Rochelle Nursing School in New York and became a U.S. Army nurse, serving in France after the United States entered World War I. After the war, Monture returned to Canada and gained the right to vote under the Canadian Military Service Act (1917).

Monture died in 1996 at the age of 105.

Edith Monture Avenue, Edith Monture Park, and Edith Monture Elementary School in Brantford are all named after her. In 2025, she was designated a National Historic Person by the Government of Canada, under the Historic Sites and Monuments Act.

UNA honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis nurses and urges members on this day to reflect on this history of Indigenous health care in Canada and Alberta, and to consider how we can all work together to achieve meaningful reconciliation.

📰🏥🚨The president of the United Nurses of Alberta is calling for quicker installation of weapons scanners at urban hospit...
04/10/2026

📰🏥🚨The president of the United Nurses of Alberta is calling for quicker installation of weapons scanners at urban hospitals, saying her members face “threats of violence almost daily.”

Heather Smith’s call follows a stabbing last week in the emergency department at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital that left a 42-year-old man requiring treatment for life-threatening injuries.

After the attack, Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister Matt Jones said the province is working to speed up the implementation of weapons screening at the hospital and the central Edmonton major trauma centre has increased its security personnel.

But Smith accuses Jones of underplaying the seriousness of the threat, saying in a letter to the minister that the UNA has strongly advocated since 2023 for a weapons detection system at the Royal Alex and other Alberta hospitals with busy ERs.

She says hospitals in other provinces already have them, and she’s also calling for the province to guarantee funding for protective services officers at all of Alberta’s emergency departments.

Smith further calls it a “dangerous situation” that also requires the government to acknowledge the violence in emergency departments is linked to overcrowding and lack of capacity.

“Frustrated, frightened patients and their families having to wait hours in packed emergency departments will inevitably lead to tense situations and outbreaks of violence,” Smith wrote Thursday in her letter to Jones.

- STORY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Understanding facts and myths, and practitioner experience may help us envision what nurses, and your future might have ...
04/09/2026

Understanding facts and myths, and practitioner experience may help us envision what nurses, and your future might have in store. Join us to review the book, then grab some popcorn, watch an episode, and see what the chatter is about.

The book “This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor” provides comical yet terrifying insights into a healthcare system that is part private, part public.

Conversation on publicly funded, publicly delivered care has never been so critical.

Join the dialogue! Registration on DMS - Spots filling up fast!
Seating & popcorn: 17:00
Screening @ 17:15-21:00
SARO 60 Uxborough Place NW

In a letter to the hospital minister today, Heather Smith calls for immediate measures to reduce risk to patients and st...
04/09/2026

In a letter to the hospital minister today, Heather Smith calls for immediate measures to reduce risk to patients and staff

For immediate release: Thursday, April 9, 2026

In a letter to Alberta Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister Matt Jonesprompted by the stabbing Friday in the Royal Alexandra Hospital Emergency Department, United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith is demanding immediate action to install a promised weapons detection system at the hospital.

In addition to properly funding and expediting installation of the weapons detection system, Smith called for two other measures to be urgently undertaken at hospitals throughout Alberta:

Guaranteeing funding to employ sufficient Protective Services Officers to staff all hospital Emergency Departments in Alberta
Prioritizing infrastructure expansion of Emergency Departments throughout the province
“Let’s not underplay the seriousness of this threat,” Smith said in her letter, which was sent to Jones earlier today. “Unlike your statement, events like this are not merely ‘unsettling.’

“They rightly frighten patients and staff, including the nurses and other health care professionals at hospitals throughout Alberta, who face similar situations far too often and threats of violence almost daily,” the letter said. “Taking ‘steps to strengthen safety at this site,’ as you promised, is not good enough.”

The continued presence of weapons in Emergency Departments in Alberta represents a critical failure of the government and health care employers to provide safe access to health care for patients and safe workplaces for nurses and other health care workers, the letter said.

Addressing this dangerous situation also requires acknowledgement by the Alberta Government that the violence in Alberta’s Emergency Departments is caused in significant part by the lack of health care capacity, Smith said. “The best way to eliminate the problem is to build the capacity that Alberta requires.”

https://www.unalocal115.org/blog/2026/4/9/una-president-demands-swift-action-on-emergency-department-safety-in-alberta

📕Education from United Nurses of Alberta.Dispute Resolution process Algorithm
04/09/2026

📕Education from United Nurses of Alberta.
Dispute Resolution process Algorithm

The story below is written by a nurse sharing their unfortunate experience with violence on the job.Hi, I wanted to shar...
04/08/2026

The story below is written by a nurse sharing their unfortunate experience with violence on the job.

Hi, I wanted to share a personal experience that left me feeling unsafe at work.

Back in 2017, I was caring for an acute care inpatient on a night shift. At the time, staffing was 1 RN and 1 LPN for 22 patients, and 1 RN in a 6-bed ER.

I entered the patient’s room to give his HS medication. He asked for a coffee, which I brought. We started talking, and he wanted to share a story. I was standing between his chair and his bed.

Mid-story, unprovoked, he threw the hot coffee at me, thankfully missing my face and hitting my chest. He then stood up and tried to push me onto the bed, reaching for my neck. He was an average-sized man in his 60s, but had pre-existing health issues that allowed me to fend him off and escape. Before I left, I noticed he had removed the pull cord from the blinds and placed it neatly on the bed.

I called for help, and my partner came. The patient then went into another room, seemingly confused. We called our lone security guard — also in his 60s — whose response was to say it must have been a mistake.

Meanwhile, the patient had called the RCMP, reporting an armed robbery. Officers arrived, spoke with him, and stayed until he could be chemically restrained. They told me I could press charges, which I didn’t feel comfortable doing without understanding why this had happened.

After speaking with his family, we learned he had done this once before - during a massive stroke. He was sent for a stat CT, and we never received follow-up.

As if the incident wasn’t traumatic enough, management only asked a brief “how are you,” with no guidance or support. Security made it clear they were there to protect the building, not staff.

Without follow-up, I was left wondering what went wrong?
Did I miss signs he was stroking?
Could I have done something differently?
Not knowing has been more stressful than the incident itself.

This is just one of many times the system, management, and security have left me and others feeling vulnerable and unsafe.

The public perception remains that nurses are the punching bags of healthcare, whether physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional.

And it needs to stop.

Spotlight 🔦on your UNA contract📑.Changing Full-Time Equivalency
04/07/2026

Spotlight 🔦on your UNA contract📑.
Changing Full-Time Equivalency

💡Joint Statements 📑 from United Nurses of Alberta and Alberta Health Services.Dispute Resolution Meeting Preamble
04/06/2026

💡Joint Statements 📑 from United Nurses of Alberta and Alberta Health Services.
Dispute Resolution Meeting Preamble

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