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Professional Member:
Mackenzie Boyden
Nursing Student Member:
Vacant
Professional Member:
Vacant
Professional Member:
Samantha Soo (Vice Chair)
Samantha is a northern-based nursing educator, Registered Nurse, and lifelong learner living in Whitehorse, Yukon. She brings over a decade of diverse nursing experience that spans acute care, home and community care, specialized palliative care, chronic disease and cancer care, and certified respiratory education, with a sustained focus on culturally safe practice and northern health.
Since 2018, Samantha has dedicated much of her career to nursing and health education, teaching Health Care Assistant and Practical Nurse students, as well as Registered Nursing students across Yukon and Nunavut. She has developed and delivered curricula that center wellness, resiliency, and cultural safety, and has been actively involved in virtual and land-based learning initiatives that respond to the realities of rural and remote learners. Samantha is currently preparing to begin a PhD in Nursing with the University of Ottawa.
She is passionate about supporting nurses as leaders, strengthening workforce sustainability in the North, and advancing client-centered, culturally safe care. Outside of work, she enjoys cycling, traveling, and spending time outdoors with her family.
Public Member:
Vacant
Public Member
Teagan Lee
Professional Member :
Shellby Fulton, RN (Chair)
Shellby.fulton@yrna.ca | chair@yrna.ca
Shellby is a born and raised rural Yukoner, member of Selkirk First Nation, and Registered Nurse. It is through this lens she listens, learns and leads.
Since becoming a Registered Nurse in 2014, Shellby has worked in BC, the NWT, and Yukon. Her healthcare career encompasses acute care, rural ER, advanced practice in remote communities, health care education and health care management. Her academic endeavours include a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Graduate Certificates in Rural and Remote Nursing and Child and Youth Mental Health, and more recently a Master of Arts in Leadership Degree. Shellby is also a firm believer in work life balance; you can find her doing house projects, hiking, camping, or adventuring with her family outside of working hours!
Shellby is passionate about academia, leadership, and nursing in the north. Drawing from her professional, academic and lived experiences, Shellby aims to cultivate safe spaces for nurses to become leaders and for Yukoners to access client centered, culturally safe health care.
Public Member:
Nicole Dakin
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