Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba City Winnipeg free press monday August 28, 2006b3 policeman Street Art targeted by vandals one of 10 outdoor works by u of m students Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press Miriam Amaldas Pilot project nurse taking pressure off doctors by Sean Moore a nurse practitioner in a fee for service clinic helps patients get quicker care and lets Over booked doctors Deal with More threatening illnesses a new study is finding. The Winnipeg regional health authority Warha has put a nurse practitioner ? a nurse with a masters degree who has a wider scope of practice ? in a paediatrics office at the Manitoba clinic. It is the first time one has worked in a privately run clinic in Manitoba. The Pilot project began in May and will continue for about 16 months with an interim analysis to decide if the pro Gram should continue. Preliminary patient and doctor sur Veys have had extremely positive feedback but Are still under analysis the Warha said. Miriam Amaldas the nurse said she sees 25 patients a Day ranging from infant to 20-year-Olds, within 24 hours of them calling. Normally she said they could wait anywhere from one to two Days to three or four months to be seen. I feel by my presence Here it has improved patient Access to care also Quality of care because they re Able to be seen in their primary care physician office where patient medical records Are As opposed to a walk in clinic she said. The paediatric clinic was chosen for the Pilot project because two of its doctors left the province and they had to fill the positions. In a nutshell the whole medical crisis that we re facing in this country is related to medical manpower or. David Connor paediatrician at the Manitoba clinic said. He initiated the project funded by Manitoba health and overseen by Warha. Though Amaldas is working very hard and seeing quite a few patients per Day i must say i Don to notice a huge change in terms of the workload. It just seems to me that the number of patients increases to fill the available time con nor said. Although they be been around for 25 years nurse practitioners became legally recognized in Manitoba on june 15, 2005, after a change in legislation. Since 1999, the University of Manitoba has graduated 23 nurse practitioners most of whom go North to work in Public clinics. They can prescribe medications immunize order and manage diagnostic tests and perform minor surgical and Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press Mark Saunders repairs his artwork located outside Portage place. Be w 2006 Dodg e car a v an 0 Down 3.3 v6, air cond., Power windows locks mirrors Speed control tilt wheel am hard. To be Able to do some structural damage and there a been a couple Inci Dences of that you a have to Wield something pretty big like a Bat or a crowbar Saunders said. I be never had such Strong opinions about my Art he said chuckling. Many of the 10 sculptures ? with subjects ranging from Jelly Beans to elephants ? spread among the nine blocks Between main Street and memorial Boulevard have been subject to harm and repaired the ele Phant has foot prints on it and the Jelly Beans were torn from their bases. The latter is considered an Accident of being loved too much Gordon Reeve the artists professor said. Reeve said the Jelly Beans Are the last thing you should hate and were wrecked from people climbing on them. They have since gone Back to the shop and have been outfitted with stronger steel. Likewise Saunders used steel and Concrete to repair the butt of the police mans gun. He a also had to erase big pig from its Hamstrings and fix a slash on its Soldier brutality the officer suffered in his first 24 hours at his Post. pm cd sunscreen Glass. By Sean Moore a styrofoam policeman outside Portage place has been repeat edly vandalized while he stands guard on his beat. The roughly two metre tall sculpture made by a University of Manitoba Stu Dent was put on display in july in a downtown Biz Effort to beautify the area. The moustached cop with squinty eyes has been vandalized four times but this does to Surprise or Hurt the artist. Its completely expected fourth year student Mark Saunders said. Its not in the Safe confines of a gallery or in someone a something that a out in the Street. It can to be watched All the time. It can to be protected All the time. And the people who do vandalism hate police he made the officer in response to people upset that funds were going to putting Art and not police on the streets. 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