We Are IH: Clinical care educator shares best-practice support
Name: Emily Larochelle (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Registered Nurse, Clinical Care Educator
Years of Service: 13
Worksite: Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital
Community: Trail, West Kootenays
Ancestral Territory: Ktunaxa and Syilx Nations
Favourite Quote / Advice to live by: "There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness." – Charles Bukowski
Learn about Emily's journey with Interior Health
Emily is a registered nurse (RN) and works as a clinical care educator at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail.
Emily’s role is to ensure standards of nursing practice are maintained and continually improved. This means being on the floor with the emergency and intensive care unit RNs, educating them at the bedside, and providing real-time educational opportunities, such as taking junior staff into traumas and codes to help develop their skills. Emily also provides regional support as a pediatric advanced life support (PALS/PEARS) instructor.
Working side-by-side with Critical Care teams in the West Kootenays inspires Emily’s passion for continuing education at the workplace. Critical care is health care for the sickest patients in the hospital – providing advanced life support measures and life-saving interventions.
I am passionate about continuing education and providing real-time education support at the bedside.
Before becoming an RN, Emily worked as a licensed practical nurse for three years. Now, more than a decade into her nursing career, she says her favourite work experiences have been with the emergency department, intensive care unit, high-acuity response team, and labour and delivery room.
Emily also has a perinatal specialty, which is an RN who specializes in labour and delivery, as well as antenatal care (care before someone goes into labour) and post-partum care. She received her specialty training through BCIT in 2020.
Discover Emily's passions outside of work
In March 2023, Emily expanded her own family with twins Amy and Nathan.
Born in New Westminster and raised across B.C. and the Yukon, Emily does not take the outdoors for granted. In fact, she’s an avid hiker, paddler, and loves to spend as much time as possible on peaks and on the water. Her sphynx cat Allan and kelpie-cross dog Paul are always with her on hikes up beautiful summits in the Kootenays – and she’s starting to get Amy and Nathan into hiking and the outdoors as well.
Here's something you might now know about Emily: she used to professionally dog mush in the Yukon.
Emily looks forward to many more mountain hikes and watching her own kids and baby nephew grow into amazing people.
My proudest career moment was after I got my perinatal specialty and helped deliver a baby for the first time. There's nothing quite like hearing a baby's first cry and watching families grow!
Emily nominates the next We Are IH
Emily nominates Erika Hayton, Patient Care Coordinator to keep We Are IH going:
“Erika is an absolutely phenomenal human being, registered nurse and patient care coordinator. If I ever have another baby, I'd want her by my side!” – Emily Larochelle
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