RESOURCES FOR EVERYONE

Understanding Prediabetes – Diabetes Canada

Understanding Diabetes – Diabetes Canada

Glycemic Index Food Guide – Diabetes Canada

Healthy Habits Guide – Diabetes Canada

Physical Activity – Diabetes Canada

Foot care – Diabetes Canada

Open Your Eyes To An Eye Exam – Diabetes Canada

Maintaining Healthy Eyes – Diabetes Canada

Hypertension is a complex health condition that occurs when your blood pressure is higher than normal.  As you get older, it is more likely you will develop hypertension.

If you have hypertension, you are at a higher risk of having a stroke, a heart attack or damaging your blood vessels and/or organs (e.g. heart, brain, kidney).  We have many programs at the clinic to help you manage your hypertension. As well, some of these resources may also be helpful:

What I Need to Know About High Blood Pressure – Hypertension Canada

How to Monitor Your Blood Pressure – Hypertension Canada

How to Maintain a Healthy Blood Pressure – Hypertension Canada

Heart Health – Unlock Food

Low Sodium Diet and Options – Sodium 101

We promote Quitting Smoking at our clinic and provide a variety of resources to help you. We can provide counseling, and prescribe many smoking cessation products to help you on this journey.

Some of these links may be helpful:

Quitting Smoking is a Journey:

All About STOP Program at Your Clinic – Click Link

Smokers Helpline – Clink Link

Call the clinic and book an appointment with a STOP Practitioner

West Ferris Site – 524 Lakeshore Drive – Phone: 705-478-7671

Downtown Site – 179 Main Street East – Phone: 705-667-0035

Prenatal education classes are not just for first-time moms. Even seasoned parents can learn something new. Our North Bay Health Unit offers prenatal classes online and in person.

Choose one below and click:

Prenatal Classes

Prenatal education promotes the maintenance of healthy lifestyles during pregnancy, helping expectant mothers manage stress, support a healthy diet, avoid harmful chemicals and situations, recognize warning signs and symptoms that mean something may be wrong with their pregnancy, and prepare for labor and delivery. Here are some extra resources with lots of helpful information.

Click link below if interested:

North Bay Regional Health Centre – Birthing Unit Services

Healthy Families – NBPSHU

Best Start- Your Guide to Labour and Birth Booklet

Best Start- A Healthy Start for Baby and Me Booklet

Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy

If you are interested in Midwifery, reach out to any of the below contacts as soon as you know you are pregnant:

Midwives in North Bay

Contact: K’Tigaaning Midwives-Nipissing F.N 

40 Couchie Road 

North Bay, ON 

Phone: 705-476-2229 Fax: 705-476-2470

Website: Click here

Contact: Kathy Wells RM 

22 McIntyre Street West, Suite 508 

North Bay, ON 

Phone: 705-476-6226 Fax: 705-476-8228

 

How you feed your baby is one of many decisions that you will be asked to make during your pregnancy and in the early days of being a parent. It’s important to make an informed decision on how to feed your baby, be prepared with accurate information about infant feeding, and feel supported as you learn to feed and take care of your baby.

Here are some helpful websites. Click link below if interested:

Best Start- Breastfeeding Matters Booklet

Natural Breastfeeding- For An Easier Start Video

Bilingual Online Breastfeeding Support (Telehealth 1-866-797-0007)

Our North Bay Health Unit also offers breastfeeding circles, clinics and peer support.

Click here for details

The North Bay Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic participated in the Ontario BFI strategy as we implemented the Breastfeeding BPG while becoming a BPSO.

This video features a Lactation Consultant/NP (Terri MacDougall) and our Dietician (Molly Cleator)

If feeding formula is the right decision for you and you baby, it is important to have the information you need to feel comfortable with this plan. It is difficult to reverse the decision not to breast feed once breastfeeding has stopped. Below is a resource that includes how to choose, prepare and feed your baby formula.

Click link if interested:

Best Start- Infant Formula: What You Need To Know Booklet

Formula Feeding – Getting Ready To Make Formula

Formula Feeding – Preparing Concentrated Infant Formula

Formula Feeding – Preparing Powdered Infant Formula

Formula Feeding – Preparing Ready-To-Feed Liquid Formula

Formula Feeding – How To Bottle Feed and Transport Formula

It doesn’t have to hurt.

There area variety of of techniques that when used alone or in combination will help you have a calm, peaceful immunization experience with your child.

Other Tips

• Distraction – bring along your child’s favourite toy or video link…

• Physical Comfort – Hold your child while they get their needles, if you are calm its more likely they will be.

• Psychological Support – Be truthful and try not to give false reassurance.

Your Nurse can provide you with more information prior to your visit with your child to answer any of your questions.

Check out Funded Immunizations in Life

Myths and Facts About Vaccines

Fact sheet that can help you decide if vaccine information you find on the Internet is accurate

Great resources are available locally through the Community Counselling Centre in North Bay. Also, here are some online resources which may be helpful:

Community Counselling Centre

Life With a New Baby Is not Always You Expect

We ask all women in our practice between the ages of 12 and 65 the question:

“Is there anyone that makes you feel afraid?”

We want to identify signs of and symptoms of woman abuse early and offer assistance and referral to appropriate resources. We have taken the pledge to end domestic violence.

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nipissingtransitionhouse.com/

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