Meet our April Nurse of the Month: Brittany Hanks
Meet Brittany Hanks, our April Nurse of the Month! Look closely at her photos – you might recognize her from nights moonlighting as a “ninja.” Hi Brittany, thanks for speaking with us. How did you get into nursing? I was studying biomedical science; I was thinking about becoming a doctor and going to medical school. […]
How to Start a SANE Program in Your Indigenous Community
No one likes to think about violence. But if the unthinkable should happen – to ourselves, to our children, to an elderly parent in a care facility or a best friend in a volatile relationship – most of us assume that the right services will be available should we need them. That we can walk […]
Women’s History Month: Celebrating the Women of Tribal Health
Women’s History Month is wrapping up – and what better way to close out the month than by honoring 4 of Tribal Health’s outstanding female leaders? Below, some of our most impressive leaders talk about the valuable transformation they’re creating in healthcare, their leadership philosophy, and the women who’ve inspired their achievements. Angelia Frederick […]
History of the Female Physician
More than a third of all U.S. doctors today are women. The days of referring to a female physician as a “woman doctor” are (mostly) behind us. If you looked in a medical history textbook, you might think this is something new – that women did not practice medicine before modern times. And it’s true […]
Meet Our March Nurse of the Month: Nicole VanderMay
Meet Nicole VanderMay, our March Nurse of the Month! A familiar face at Rosebud, Nicole talked to us about providing care on Indigenous lands and how she survived that epic South Dakota blizzard of last winter. Hi Nicole, thanks for speaking with us. How long have you been with Tribal Health? I’ve been a […]
Connecting the Mentally Ill to Treatment – Not Jail
Why are so many people with mental illness in jail? If your immediate answer is, “Because they’ve committed a crime” – you’ll be surprised (and hopefully chagrined) to learn that’s often not the case. Plenty of people with mental illness who’ve never broken a law or harmed anyone (other than themselves) enter the criminal justice […]
