Nightingale Honourable Mention: Nurse Mae Katt designs program to manage addiction among teens
At Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, nurse Mae Katt uses suboxone to help wean teens off opiates.
This isn’t your average Ontario high school, and Mae Katt is no ordinary school nurse.
Working with possibly the most troubled student body in the province — native teens from remote northern reserves — she has searched for a way to help them get off drugs and build a future.
The Ojibwa nurse practitioner, who received honourable mention in this year’s Nightingale awards, helped craft a lifeline at a Thunder Bay high school for native teens wrestling with levels of addiction that are almost unimaginable anywhere else.
