A Canadian Social Worker

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I retired from the misericordia Hospital on July 3rd, 2009.
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 My name is Steve Natran and I work at the Misericordia Hospital (a part of the Caritas Health Group) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I cover the following areas: ER, ICU, CCU, and the MSU (Medical Satellite Unit - 6 West). Since 1990 I have had the opportunity to work in many areas including Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery, Ambulatory Care and Diabetes Education.

My greatest joy is when I can hear what a patient is telling me, his or her needs, and I am able to muster the resources from either within the individual or some community resource that can meet those needs.

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On July 3rd, 2009 I finished my last day working as a Social Worker at the Misericordia Hospital. A year before this date I had started thinking about what it would be like to retire from this rewarding career. Over the course of this year it became evident that the health care industry as a whole was going to suffer another downturn and it made the decision to retire so much easier.


Since my retirement I have devoted myself to helping others through another discipline. I teach folks how to ballroom dance. Some are getting married and want to make that first dance a more memorable one while others just see the merits of ballroom dancing.


The merits include exercise, a form of stress management, a way of bonding with their loved one and even as an art form.


I have been taking ballroom dance lessons since 1990 and my first lessons were for the staff of the Misericordia as a form of stress management in 1998.


Most years years I teach 25 to 30 couples for weddings plus group lessons in various towns and cities around Edmonton. The list of venues have included Slave Lake, Whitecourt, Mayerthorpe, Devon, Leduc, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Wabamun, Inuvik, NWT. and Barrhead.


I guess I just can't gt away from doing something that helps people. It is no longer Social Work but it does seem to be helping people.

April 25, 2010
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Link Women's Photovoices
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Over the past eighteen months, members of the Women and a Fair Income  Working Group have met to plan and carry out a project with the goal of  advocating for fair incomes for all people in Calgary and Alberta. Women  who participated included university and community-based researchers  many of whom were women living on low incomes. Over a three-month  period, women took photographs to assist in describing and analyzing the  impact of living on a low income. Together they reviewed the pictures  they had taken, related the stories behind the images, analyzed their   meaning, and created a powerful advocacy tool.

 

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