Meet Your Training Team
Our goal is to assist in the development of a strong and knowledgeable nursing foot care community.
About Us
Experts in nursing foot care education since 1993
Foot Canada Training is a nursing foot care education company dedicated to promoting the advancement of standardized and accessible Foot Care Nurse education in accordance with best practice guidelines. We support nationwide education opportunities by offering online Foot Care Nurse and Educator training, and by providing Foot Care Nurse Educators, health agencies and post-secondary institutions access to our curriculum for clinical courses and advanced skills workshops. Our training and curriculum is peer-reviewed, current and meets the standards set by the Canadian Association of Foot Care Nurses’ National Competencies for Advanced Nursing Foot Care in Canada.
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Our Team
Cindy Lazenby RN
Founder & Director of Nursing
Foot Care Nurse & Educator: 32 years
Fun Facts: Aside from being obsessed with feet since 1991, I love exercising/dancing to music, gardening, kayaking, skiing, biking and playing outside with my grandchildren
RN since 1981
Julie Gauthier B.A.Hons., B.Ed.
ED & Director of Education
Years with FCT: 22
Fun Facts: I love to read, memorize useless facts, bake, and kayak; I collected pig figurines as a child and loved sailing in Lake Ontario
Michelle De Grandmont RPN
LEP Coordinator & Education Provider
Soft Soles Advanced & Diabetic Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 12 years
Fun Fact: I love to be in the forrest and to take people on wild food walks – I love hunting for edible mushrooms!
Philina Sky RN
Licensed Education Provider
Foot Care Nurse: since 2004
Foot Care Nurse Educator: since 2013
Fun Fact: Diabetes Nurse Educator 2012-2022
Brette Cain RPN
Licensed Education Provider
Next Step Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 7 years
Fun Facts: I did my original Clinical Training with fellow LEP Philina Sky! And I am the voice (and co-author) of the Foot Health online course.
Kirsten Hansen LPN
Licensed Education Provider
Kirsten’s Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 8 years
Fun Facts: I am a Diabetes Educator, and I LOVE Disney, like, a lot..all my scrubs are Disney!
Seneca Trinidad RN
Licensed Education Provider
Seneca Medical Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 9 years
Fun Fact: Seneca is resilient – If you want something done right, ask her to do it!
Arlene Van Doorn RN
Licensed Education Provider
Arlene’s Healthy Heals
Foot Care Nurse: 20 years
Fun Fact: I love NASTY feet, and enjoy the challenge and the results of correcting complex long standing issues; to see people hobble in and dance out!
Chrystal Stevens LPN
Licensed Education Provider
Longevity Foot Care Services
Foot Care Nurse: 7 years
Fun Facts: I have trained 20 nurses this year. I specialize in the non-invasive treatment of involuted and ingrown nails.
Kaarina Schrott LPN
Licensed Education Provider
One Step Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 20 years
Fun Fact: I love 80’s music and once performed a solo in a local 80’s rock performance
Nadine Facini LPN & Karen Everitt LPN
Licensed Education Providers
Ever New Foot Care
Foot Care Nurses: 4 years
Fun Facts: Business partners Nadine & Karen worked for 19 years as surgical nurses before opening their private foot care clinic. They make ceramic trees for fun.
Shannon Matheson RPN
Licensed Education Provider
Healed Sole
Foot Care Nurse: 5 years
Fun Facts: I love the outdoors and cross country skiing!
Jenne Harron RPN
Licensed Education Provider
Solely Foot Care
Melissa Krause RPN
Licensed Education Provider
Chelsea Janveau RPN
Licensed Education Provider
Giishkaandago’ikwe Health Services
Foot Care Nurse: 6 years
Fun Fact: I am an avid hunter and angler!
Mary Spray, RN
Licensed Education Provider
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
Judy Bala RN
Licensed Education Provider
College of New Caledonia
Foot Care Nurse: 8 years (after 27 years as an Emerg Nurse)
“FAMILY is the most important part of my life. Being very involved with my children & grandchildren allows me to feel so much joy and reward”
Melonie Millar LPN
Licensed Education Provider
M&M Advanced Foot Care
Foot Care Nurse: 3 years
I have always loved being a nurse and the instant reward that comes with providing foot care makes my work even more enjoyable. My goal, as the owner of M&M Advanced Footcare and a Foot Care Nurse Educator, is to see a reduction in lower limb amputations among diabetics in her area over the next 5-10 years.
Leadership
We aim to be the leading source of Foot Care Nurse education in Canada. Following the leadership of Foot Canada Training’s Founding President and Director of Nursing, Cindy Lazenby, also a founding member of the Canadian Association of Foot Care Nurses, we will continue to be an active advocate in the nursing foot care community for standardized Foot Care Nurse education based on best practices.
Collaboration
We believe in the importance of local and accessible training opportunities and working together with other education providers who share our goal of developing a strong and knowledgeable nursing foot care community.
Quality
As a provider of nursing foot care education since 1993, Foot Canada Training’s curriculum not only reflects our experience gained from almost 30 years of teaching in this growing field, but is a product of ongoing collaboration with experts in the foot care community, peer-review and regular updates to keep current with best practices.
Accessibility and Standardization
All nurses should have access to the same level of quality foot care training opportunities, regardless of where they live. To make this possible, a significant portion of the training Foot Canada Training offers is online. We also offer access to our clinical and workshop curriculum to education providers across Canada.