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Model of Nursing Care Work Group
Ginette Rodger •
grodger@ottawahospital.on.ca Communication Work Group Chair:
Valerie Wilkie • Ext. 16235 Nursing Quality Improvement Work Group
Co-Chairs:
Marlene Mackey • Ext. 16979
Gail McDermott • Ext. 13245 Nursing Informatics Reflective Group
Contact:
Barbara Blair • Ext. 82497 Nursing Research Work Group Chair:
Sharon Brez • Ext. 13038 Nursing Policy, Procedure, Protocol Work Group Co-chairs:
Barbara Blair • Ext. 82157
Lucie Bussière • Ext. 71510 Nursing Professional Practice Committee
Chair:
Ginette Rodger • Chief of Nursing • grodger @ottawahospital.on.ca Nursing Week Work Group Co-chairs: Janice McIntyre Ginette Rodger • grodger@ottawahospital.on.ca ONA Local 83 Contact: 731-1314 • ottawahospitallocal83 @sym-patico.ca
Corporate Nursing Clinical Practice Committee Co-Chairs:
Evelyn Kerr • Ext. 16060
Sharon Coeyn •
scayen@ottawahospital.on.ca Recruitment, Retention, Recognition Work Groups Chair:
Cheryl-Anne Smith • Ext. 17894 Education Work Group
Contact:
Reik van den Berg • Ext. 78439 Management Work Group Chair:
Robin Morash • Ext. 14853 Advanced Practice Nurse Work Group
Co-Chairs:
Cathy DeGrasse • Ext. 18759
Sharon Brez • Ext. 13038
Nursing Fellowship
Awarded to One
of Our Own!
The Reproductive Endocrinology, Menopause and Osteoporosis Clinic at The Ottawa Hospital – General Campus is proud to announce that Cathy Lesk R.N., Clinical Staff Nurse, was awarded the Nurses’ Professional Develop-ment Fellowship at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) annual meeting
in Winnipeg, in June 2002. This is the first time this award has been offered by the SOGC. The purpose of this fellowship is to provide financial support for professional development in the area of Obstetrics/Gynecology and for Sexual and
Reproduc-tive Health. Cathy’s objecReproduc-tives include expanding her knowl-edge base and developing her expertise in the assessment and counseling of menopausal women under the supervision of
Dr. Elaine Jolly, Director of the new Women’s Health Centre
and Head of the Reproductive Endocrinology, Menopause and Osteoporosis Clinic. Congratulations Cathy!
Inside this issue…
Algonquin College Recognizes TOH Nurses for their valuable contributions
Conferences Dates for 2002–2003
Educational Financial Assistance Available to Nurses at The Ottawa Hospital
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Algonquin College
Recognizes TOH Nurses
for their valuable
contributions…
The Algonquin College School of Health and Community Studies (Nursing Studies and Continuing Education) would like to take this opportunity to thank the nurses of The Ottawa Hospital for their assistance over the past year with our nursing students. We have many programs which require a clinical practicum component and we turn to all the healthcare agencies in the city for clinical placements, but the “lion’s share” of placements end up being at the campuses of The Ottawa Hospital. We have students on their basic placements, and students doing their pre-graduation/consolidation experiences throughout the year, and we would like to thank the nurses who help our students achieve their learning objectives. In particular we would like to thank the nurses who volunteered to serve as preceptors as this is a serious commitment. We understand the pressures that exist in modern healthcare agencies and appreciate the effort that it takes to help student nurses become graduate nurses.
To thank the preceptors and the agencies, Algonquin College has made improvements to the Preceptorship Credit system. For every 25 hours that a nurse in an agency is a preceptor for one of our students in any of the post-secondary programs, and for every 5 hours in the Continuing Education courses (e.g. OR nurse course), a credit hour will be “banked” with Con-tinuing Education here at the College for that agency. The credits can be used by any nurse from the agency towards a credit nursing course offered by Continuing Education (any courses marked with one asterisk in the “The Source” – Guide to Continuing Education and Life-long Learning) following payment of a $20 course fee (plus tax/service charge). There is a maximum of three spaces for each credit course for nurses using preceptorship credit hours. The credit hours cannot be utilized for clinical/field placement experiences. Further details about this program are available from Continu-ing Education department of the School of Health and Community Studies (contact Sherri Pagnan at 727-4723, ext. 5078).
In closing, we would like to add that participation in reflective practice is a standard of practice for nurses. Through your involvement with stu-dents, it is possible to enhance your practice and at the same time satisfy the College of Nurses of Ontario’s requirement for nurses to reflect on their practice. We look forward to working with you in the future as our programs evolve and the diploma RN program and RPN-RN Fast-track programs are gradually phased out and our Collaborative BScN program and 2 year RPN program are fully implemented.
Barbara Foulds Marlene Tosh
Chair, Nursing Studies Chair, Continuing Education
and Contract Training – Health Studies
Thanks
is such
a small word
for so many
outstanding
achievements!
At the end of May 2002
many employees bid a
fond farewell to their
col-league and friend Gwen
Hefferman. After
forty-two years of dedicated
service to Nursing
Educa-tion and Nursing at The
Ottawa Hospital, Gwen
decided it was time to
retire and just enjoy life!
We wish her well in all her
future endeavours and
hope that she drops by on
occasion for a coffee and
a “Wee chat…”
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Model of Nursing Care Work Group...
Weighing the Issues
We have started theimplementa-tion of the Model of Nursing Clinical Practice and it will continue to be rolled out over the next year.
Progress to date:
• Implementation has been completed for the
Inten-sive Care Units at the Civic and Gen-eral campuses.
• Implementation is under way for the Emergency Rooms at the General and
Civic campuses as well as the Geriatric Assessment Unit. • Feedback is positive and nurses are making decisions about
the organization of care in their units and identifying areas of learning.
We currently have two facilitators working with us on this project for the next year. They are:
• Diane Courville, Team Leader from the Eye Institute – General Campus and
• Barb Kyd-Strickland, Evening Coordinator – Civic Campus. There is a third facilitator position, which should be filled by the time you read this update.
Watch for a Special Edition of Nursing News on TOH Model of Nursing Clinical Practice, which is being prepared for distribution in the fall!
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Computing e-nursing
@ TOH...
The Nursing
Informatics
Reflective
Group
NCAN (Nursing Computer Application Network) the east-ern chapter of The Ontario Nursing Informatics Group (ONIG) had the pleasure of sponsoring a half-day education session on September 13th, 2002 at SCO Health Service – Bruyère Site in Ottawa. The theme of the day was “Health Informatics: Tools, Challenges and Opportunities in 2002.”
The featured keynote speaker was Lynn Nagle, President of the Canadian Nursing Informatics Associa-tion (CNIA). Her talk entitled
“Nurses and Informatics – The Next Frontier” was enthusias-tically received by all present. Other presentations included new technologies for e-learning and patient education as well as an overview of the Eastern Ontario Telehealth Network, which incorporated a live tele-health demonstration.
ONIG and NCAN working along with CNIA facilitate Informatics Educational opportunities for all nurses interested in this exciting field. For more information on these groups, visit their websites at www.onig.on.ca or www.cnia.ca.
The Nursing Week Work Group...
Signalling Events for Nursing Week…
September signals the start of planning for the 2003 Nursing Week pro-gram. This Work Group comprised of both clinical staff nurses and nurs-ing management is responsible for selectnurs-ing the theme for the week and organizing all events for this celebration. The NWWG co-chairs, Ginette Rodger and Janice McIntyre encourage past members to come back and would like to invite new members to join this enthusiastic team. The meetings are held once a month from September through to May for approximately two hours. The 2002 Work Group developed a fun and edu-cational roster of events last year and are looking forward to creating a bigger and better Nursing Week for 2003!
If you are interested in participating please feel free to contact Janice McIntyre at 78458 or join us at our September 23 meeting at the Gen-eral Campus: Administration, Room K from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 pm
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The theme of this edition of the
Nursing News
is Education and
is of great relevance to each and
every one of us both personally
and professionally.
As an Academic Health Science
Centre, the education/academic
mandate of the organization is
fundamental within The Ottawa
Hospital. It is very clear to us as
to how our patients’ needs have
changed, how the technology
we utilize to provide care has
changed and how the knowledge
base related to treatment has
changed. We know that
indi-viduals or groups that cease to
learn cease to grow and become
incapable of providing
“excel-lence” within their professional
life. Both the Board and Senior
Management recognize that
ongoing education and lifelong
learning are key to the success of
individuals and of professions and
are therefore committed to the
educational mandate of the
orga-nization and to our role in
prepar-ing health care professionals of
the future.
Our Nursing Professional
Prac-tice focus and the many
initia-tives undertaken in the past few
years demonstrate our value to
education. There is no question
that we want to be able to
pro-vide more education, to propro-vide
an infrastructure to support your
ongoing learning, and to enable
more staff time off to attend
con-ferences and other educational
endeavours. The development of
endowment funds is one
deliber-ate strdeliber-ategy on which we
con-tinue to focus in order to support
and enable greater educational
opportunities for you and your
colleagues. Such funds will assist
each of you in your personal
responsibility to maintain a
com-petent knowledge base to perform
your job.
In our daily work life, we all
directly and indirectly educate
future health professionals.
Whether or not you are
individu-ally teaching a student, nursing
or otherwise, role modelling is
an ongoing process. I would like
to take this opportunity to thank
each of you for your continuing
contribution to this essential
component of our hospital. Your
personal commitment to lifelong
learning, to supporting our
nurs-ing students and other students
of the health care team, is
fun-damental to the values of The
Ottawa Hospital and is central to
providing quality patient care
.Wendy Nicklin
Greetings from
Wendy
Wendy Nicklin
Vice-President, Nursing
“We all directly and
indirectly educate
future health
professionals.”
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Nursing News
Editor: MICHELINE JAWORSKI R.N. B.A. B.ED. Coordinator: DEBBIE FERRAR R.N. B.Sc.N.The Nursing News is a quarterly corporate newsletter written by nurses for nurses at The Ottawa Hospital to:
inform nurses of new programs and processes, upcoming events, and new trends in Nursing in regards to patient care, education and research
recognize individual nurses or groups of nurses for specific accomplishments including quality improvement initiatives, research projects, educational achievements, publications as well as presentations at internal and external conferences
promote camaraderie amongst nurses throughout The Ottawa Hospital
provide a venue for feedback on issues as appropriate.
Future Nursing News Deadline: Submission:
October 25 for Nursing News
December 13 Issue The Nursing Communication Work Group is seeking interested individuals as:
Editors Coordinator
Campus Liaison Officer
If you are interested, please contact:
dferrar@ottawahospital.on.ca
Did you know that the postpartum
units at The Ottawa Hospital
have been re-named? They are
now called Mother-Baby Units.
This reflects our new direction
of promoting non-separation of
healthy mothers and babies. In
the literature, this is referred
to as the Mother-Baby
Model of care. Although
this is how we have
practiced for quite
some time through the
day and evening, we are
fully implementing the
model to continue this
practice around the
clock. Mother-Baby care
maintains the
“togeth-erness” of healthy
moth-ers and babies throughout their
hospital stay.
Research evidence confirms
that this is the best way to care
for healthy mothers and babies.
Evidence based benefits include:
Providing an environment for
Families and Babies in which:
• parents can learn about their
baby’s responses and
sleep-wake cycles
• babies are less stressed
• babies cry less
• successful breastfeeding is
fostered
Mother-Baby Units
Moving Forward in
Family-Centred Maternity Care!
• educational opportunities are
increased
• mother’s learning about her
infant and self-care capabilities
is promoted
• both mothers and babies sleep
better
Staff benefits include:
• Diversification of skills
• Improved
communica-tion between family and
care givers
• Replacement of
frag-mented care with
conti-nuity of care
• Elimination of
duplica-tion of services
In the event a mother or
her support person isn’t
able to care for the baby, or the
baby needs close observation,
the baby is cared for in an
Obser-vation Area. Other local hospitals
are implementing this model as
well as it is now the Canadian
standard of care during the
post-partum period. We look forward
to the improvements this will
bring to our patient care. The
literature shows that
implement-ing this model makes the family
feel more comfortable and more
able to provide better care for
their new baby once they are
dis-charged home.
Donna MacDonell RN, PNC (C), BScN Clinical Staff Nurse, A4,
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Ginette L. Rodger
Chief, Nursing
From the Desk of the
Chief of Nursing
“Lifelong learning” is the
opera-tive phrase for all professionals
these days and nurses at TOH
are no different! You told us
last year through the Nursing
Census that almost 30% (664)
of you have completed either
your Baccalaureate, Masters or
Ph.D., that another 29% (649)
have completed a certification
in your areas of specialty and
that 17% (387) are enrolled in
one of these programs. Very
impressive!
Yet the years to come are also
telling… 1,011 (43%) of you
intend to study in the next five
years. So support for
educa-tion is key at TOH In spite of
our budgetary constraints this
year, 334 nurses applied for
professional leave in the last
12 months and 279 nurses
pre-sented at a conference as well
as 43 nurses have published an
article in the last year. To you all
I say: “Bravo!”
We will continue to support
your lifelong learning quest
through various strategies
including continuing education
offerings, financial support,
the education fair, and
counsel-ing to name but a few.
In order
to succeed in these
endeav-ours WE NEED your help. The
“We will continue
to support your
lifelong learning
quest.”
Nursing Census will be out
September 21, 2002 so please,
please complete it… this data
is what we use to document our
requests for more commitment
to education at TOH
In other news, I am pleased to
announce the following
appoint-ments to the Nursing
Profes-sional Practice Department,
which take effect this month:
•
Evelyn Kerr – Corporate
Coordinator of Nursing
Clin-ical Practice,
•
Reik van den Berg –
Corpo-rate Coordinator of Nursing
Education,
•
Salma Debs-Ivall –
Corpo-rate Associate Coordinator
of Nursing Education and
•
Donna Kettyle – Corporate
Associate Coordinator of
Nursing Quality
Improve-ment.
Welcome to these new team
members!
Dr. Ginette Lemire Rodger, RN
Chief of Nursing
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Full-text
nursing
information
at your
fingertips!
Good news from Library Services! You now have full-text online access to a pack-age of 14 nursing journals and 8 books.
Titles include:
• JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration • CNS: The Journal for
Advanced Nursing Practice
• Nursing Research • American Journal of
Nursing
• Nursing Care Plans • Lippincott Manual of
Nursing Practice • Current Medical
Diagnosis & Treatment • Interpretation of
Diagnostic Tests
Call or visit your campus Library to sign up for your Polaris password, which will give you access to full-text nursing information and a wealth of other resources. Library Services: General Campus 78530 Civic Campus 14450 Riverside Campus 88230 www.ottawahospital.on.ca/ library
Recruitment, Retention and
Recognition Work Group
Seeking and Keeping
Treasures
Nursing Recognition Celebration
The Ottawa Hospital Nursing Recruitment and Retention Work Group is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Nursing Recognition Celebration which will be held on Thursday November 7th, 2002 at Sala San Marco. This grand event celebrates nurses’ individual achievements and their contributions to The Ottawa Hospital. Fur-ther details will be posted soon. Mark your calendars now and plan to join the celebration!
Nursing Census
September marks the third annual Nursing Census. Be sure to count yourself in! This information is confidential and aids us in determining appropriate retention, recruitment, and educational strategies for nurses at The Ottawa Hospital.
It also helps us monitor progress made to date. Census forms are available on your unit. Please take the time to fill them out and return them through the hospital envelop provided.
Update on Recruitment and Retention
Recommendations
The R&R workgroup has incorporated the R&R recom-mendations made from the survey done last fall into their strategic plan and will hold open forums in the late fall to share progress made to date. Forum dates will be posted soon so plan to attend and hear the latest on these important issues!
Nursing Week Poster Contest
Do you have a son or daughter in Grade 5? If so, their class is eligible to participate in our annual Nursing Week Poster Contest. Students are asked to draw posters of what they think nursing is all about. The posters are reviewed and the best are selected to become part of our Nursing Week festivities. The winning students are invited to a celebration and receive an award for their work. If you know of a grade 5 class that may be interested in participat-ing, please contact Cheryl Anne Smith at 761-4466.
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Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together…
The Corporate Nursing Clinical
Practice Committee (CNCPC)
This is a wrap-up summary of work completed from September 2001 through to June 2002 by the sub- committees of this work group.
Patient/Family Centred Care
This group has completed their work on the Patient Passport and are ready to present their work to the Nursing Professional Leaders and Senior Administration.
Standardization for Policies, Procedures & Protocols
The Trach Policy will be completed in September and the APS (acute pain service) monitoring protocols will be reviewed in the fall. There are numerous other poli-cies in various stages of completion and distribution of completed policies continues to be every four months.
Documentation/legal issues/phone advice
Documentation: Nursing History
Draft five of the Nursing History form has been completed. It will be translated and printed for review in September. Proj-ects for the fall include development of a Kardex/PCP for use along with the history forms and an evaluation tool will also be designed. The target date for completion is November 2002.
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Nursing Quality Improvement Work Group...
A Guiding Light for Excellence in Nursing Practice at TOH
The Nursing Quality Improvement Work Group has numerous projects on the go including overseeing the development of corporate quality programs such as: • Fall Prevention,
• Least Restraint Last Resort, and • Skin Care
This busy group is also reviewing Nurse Sensitive Outcomes, such as:
• Fall incidents, and • Medication errors
These outcomes are captured through our ENCON incident report-ing system. The ENCON results are analyzed from high volume areas and provide meaningful information for
man-agers and clinical staff. Pain management has been identified as an indicator of patient satisfaction with nursing care. After completion of a review of the lit-erature, the work group plans to develop pain man-agement indicators.
Telephone Advice
The sub-committee has completed the work for this project.
Legal Issues
This group met with Shauney Donoghue who is to take and discuss their issues with Occupational Health and will report to the group in September.
Equipment Problems
The group continues their work on the SPD manual – there have been some computer “glitches” with the ORACLE program.
Violence / Abuse in the Workplace (from patients and co-workers)
The group has completed the objectives it set out last fall. No-Violence signs are to be posted in patient areas throughout the hospital. Eric Drouin R.N. is to present the results of this sub-committee’s violence survey to
senior management.
The Image of the Nurse (morale, attitudes and dress code)
This sub-committee continues with its strategic plan. Over the summer, this group
revised its survey utilizing the model of nursing clinical practice as a framework.
The revised survey will be presented to all members of CNCP at the September meeting.
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Educational Financial Assistance Available
to Nurses at The Ottawa Hospital
Over the past several months the Corporate Nursing Education Co-ordinators in the Department of Nursing Professional Practice have been asked many questions regarding the availability of finan-cial support for nurses at TOH In a nutshell, financial support comes in three forms:
1. Conference funding, 2. Tuition Assistance, and 3. Bursary awards.
Each of the processes required for the granting of these is outlined below.
Conference funding occurs throughout the year.
• Any nurse requesting confer-ence funding must complete the NUR 82 form available from their Clinical Manager.
• If the nurse is asking for Profes-sional leave, taking a vacation day, or attending on their own time, the NUR 82 form must be approved by their Clinical Manager before submitting the request to the offices of the Corporate Nursing Education Co-ordinators.
• To ensure equity/fairness of funding across programs
requests must be submitted eight weeks in advance of a conference.
• This lead-time also allows deci-sions to be based upon the num-bers and variety of conference requests received in relation to the amount of funds available. • All requests are subject to fund-ing availability. Therefore, full financial support may not be possible due to lack of available funds.
• Nurses are eligible to receive Conference funding once per year unless presenting at conferences.
Tuition Assistance is granted twice per calendar year.
• Forms are e-mailed to the Clini-cal Managers and are available from them or from the offices of the Corporate Coordinators of Nursing Education in February and June of each year.
• Tuition payback is retrospective in nature. For instance, if you took a three-credit University or College course leading to a diploma or certificate in the previous semester, you may be eligible for reimbursement.
Providing Benefits that are Twofold…
TOH Discharge Lounge – Civic Campus
The opening of the Discharge Lounge last June has experienced a quiet summer but is proving to be
beneficial for patients and staff of TOH. The lounge, which is funded and staffed by TOH – Civic Auxiliary is located in the former Beauty Salon on Main Street.
Benefits include:
• Provision of a convenient comfortable place for discharged patients to await their ride home. • Freeing up of beds earlier in the day allowing for earlier patient admissions.
The lounge is operational Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Patients making use of these facilities must be clinically stable, reasonably independent, and not confused.
• All forms must be accompa-nied by proof of successful completion of the course and an original receipt for payment of tuition.
• Tuition assistance is paid from the interest generated from Nursing Endowment funds.
Bursary Awards are granted once per calendar year
• These awards are granted for Baccalaureate, Masters and PhD studies
• They are prospective in nature. • Eligibility is dependent upon
acceptance into a program of study in nursing, education and/or administration. • Several bursary awards exist. • Application forms are posted in
April.
• Selection of the bursary winners by the Bursary selection Com-mittees is completed mid-May. • Award ceremonies occur in
June.
For more specific details on each of these types of financial assistance please refer to the Corporate Nurs-ing Policy, Procedure and Protocols Manual, NSG-4-C140: Guidelines for Granting Financial Assistance.
Conferences Dates for 2002–2003
Name of Conference Date Location Cost Sponsored by – Contact
“The Spirit of Caring:
At the Cross Roads of Oncology” September 22–25 Fort Garry HotelWinnipeg, Man. CANO – Before Aug. 15: $290Members:
After: $350
Non-members:
Before Aug. 15: $375 After: $440
Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology
4th Annual Interventional
Neuroradiology Symposium September 27 and 28, 2002 Delta Centre,Montreal, Que. Before Aug 30: $150After: $200 University of MontrealRegister on line at: www.expertize.com
Dynamics Critical Care 2002/
CACCN September 29– October 2 Niagara Falls, Ont. Member:Non-member: $450 $255
for one day
Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses Contact: Internet: www.caccn.ca
Eastern Ontario Regional Trauma
Conference September 25, 2002 0730–1600 RA Centre, Riverside Drive
Ottawa, Ont.
Physicians: $125
RN/Parameds: $90
Students: $75
TOH Trauma Services, CHEO Trauma Program, City of Ottawa Emergency
Medical Services Contact: Chantal Martel, (613) 798-5555, ext. 19600 “Navigating the Changing Flow”:
15th Annual Urological Excellence Conference
October 3–5, 2002 Marriott Hotel
Kent St., Ottawa, Ont. Members: Before Sept 6: $250 After: $275 Non-members: Before: $275 After: $300 Contact: (613) 721-2000 (3900) Internet: www.unc.org
“Canadian Diabetes Association – Professional Conference and Annual Mtgs”
October 2–5, 2002 Vancouver, BC See costs on
Web site CDA/CESMContact web site: www.diabetes.ca
“Ocular Inflammation:
Sally Letson Symposium” October 3–5, 2002 The Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ont. Free Contact: (613) 737-8759
Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy Annual Conference
October 3–5, 2002 Corner Brook,
NFLD. For more details contact:Sue Sarrazin: (613) 798-5555 ext. 16312
Nicole Denis: (613) 737-8655 “Contemporary Issues in Stroke
Management” October 4, 2002 Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Que. $90 The Stroke NetworkUpdate on Medical Management
Evidence Based Practice Contact: Lori Assayag (514) 483-1380 ext. 2218 or lassayag@ssss.gouv.qc.ca “Improving Respiratory Health:
An Interdisciplinary Team Approach”
October 8, 2002
0800–1600 Wheels Inn, Chatham, Ont. By Sept. 30, 2002: $100Group discount if more
than 5 attend
The Lung Association/Ontario Respiratory Care Society (ORCS)
Call (416) 864-9911
Web site: www.orcs@on.lung.ca “Bridging the Gap between
Nursing Work Life and Technology” – 9th Annual Nursing Research Day
October 10, 2002
0800–1600 The Hamilton Convention Centre,
Hamilton, Ont.
Before Sept. 13, 2002: $75
After: $90
McMaster University School of Nursing Contact: www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/nursing/csa
“Basic Wound Care” October 16, 2002 RA Centre,
Riverside Drive, Ottawa Ont.
$60 KDS Professional Consulting
Resp Fest 2002:
A Respiratory Practice Update October 24, 2002 Bingeman’s, Kitchener, Ont. By October 21: $100Group discount if more
than 5 attend
The Lung Association/Ontario Respiratory Care Society (ORCS) Call (416) 864-9911
Web site: www.orcs@on.lung.ca
“Sail Into Vascular Nursing” October 24–26, 2002 Casino, Halifax, NS. $200 Canadian Chapter of Society of Vascular Nursing
“Spirituality and Health Care “ October 25–27, 2002 Medical Sciences Bldg,
McLeod Auditorium Toronto, Ont. Application return by October 7, 2002 3 days: $295 2 days: $250 1 day: $125
Faculty of Medicine/U of Toronto Contact: 1-888-512-8173 Email: www.ce.med@utoronto.ca Canadian Association for Wound
Care – Annual Conference
November 15–17,
2002 Vancouver, BC. See Web site for details CACW: www.cawc.net
“Outcome Measures in
Respiratory Health Care” November 22, 2002 0800–1600 Ramada Plaza Hotel Toronto, Ont. By November 17: $100Group discount if more
than 5 attend
The Lung Association/ Ontario Respiratory Care Society (ORCS)
Call (416) 864-9911
Web site: www.orcs@on.lung.ca
“Healthy Work places In Action”
– 2nd International Conference November 21–22, 2002 Toronto Congress Centre
Toronto, Ont.
See Web site for details RNAO
Contact : Vanessa Pullen www.rnao.org
“Caring in Dynamic Times: Health Care Trends and Rehabilitation Nursing”
May 14–16, 2003 Delta Hotel
Ottawa, Ont. To be determined The Rehabilitation Centre and Sisters of Charity of Ottawa Health Service