Nurse recognized with Award of Excellence

Leslie-Ann Smith of Battleford was one of three nurses recognized with the 2012 First Nations and Inuit Health Branch National Award of Excellence in Nursing. Smith is currently employed by Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch as Nurse in Charge at the Spiritwood Health Centre. She has worked with First Nations communities for the majority of her nursing career since graduating in 1991 from the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies’ Indian Diploma Nursing Program and then completing a Bachelor of Nursing Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 2007. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the awards, which were established in 2003 as part of an initiative to recognize the contributions of nurses working in First Nations and Inuit communities.