Debra Walker

She graduated in 1973 from Lakehead Regional School of Nursing. Her nursing experience focused on Medical, Geriatric and Post Coronary floors in Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Oshawa. In 1981, She started working at Durham College in Oshawa in the Practice Lab with first and second year diploma nursing students. She still to this day love working with students in the lab setting. Then in 1987, She shifted to teaching nursing theory just to first-year nursing students in the classroom, as well as medical and long-term care clinical settings at the Oshawa and Bowmanville hospitals.

In 1995, She moved back home to Thunder Bay. Her first job at Confederation College was in the Extension Health Department where she learned a great deal about Continuing Education and the college system. It was here, in 1997, that she became involved in the development, maintenance and evaluation of the Personal Support Worker program - part-time and then full-time delivery. she continue to teach in this program today.

she believe that teachers have the unique opportunity to empower their students. To provide for them all the tools they need or can choose from to help them be successful in school, work and life. In this ever-changing, demanding health care system, she like that she can in some way prepare them for a successful career as a Personal Support Worker.