15 May Health Promotion Monthly Seminar Series: Policy and Practice Recommendations for Community Health Nursing
Pan Canadian Safety at Home Study: Policy and Practice Recommendations for Community Health Nursing
Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:00- 1:00 pm EST View Event Poster
The Health Promotion Seminar Series is a collaborative effort between the de Souza Institute, the Community Health Nurses’ Initiatives Group (CHNIG) and the Community Health Nurses of Canada (CHNC). The seminars offer an opportunity for professional development to nurses working in all domains of practice; community or acute care. Topics are focused on current issues, and provide a means for knowledge transfer, discussion, and resources to apply to practice.
The monthly seminars are free of charge and open to all nurses. They are typically held on the third Thursday of the month from 12-1pm EST. Past presentations were very successful and covered the topics of Smoking Cessation, the Aging at Home Strategy, Chronic Disease Prevention, Cultural Safety, Primary Health Care, Political Action. All presentations are archived at http://www.chnig.ec4.tygershark.com/Resources/78/76.
The next seminar is: Pan Canadian Safety at Home Study: Policy and Practice Recommendations for Community Health Nursing, May 29, 2014, with Diane Doran, RN, PhD, FCAHS. Diane Doran is professor emerita at the University of Toronto, where she was Director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit (2010-2013), and completed a five-year term as Associate Dean of Research and Interim Dean at the Faculty of Nursing. She was a lead investigator of the Pan Canadian Safety at Home Study, has recognized expertise in health-services research, outcomes measurement, patient safety, and e-Health, and is co-lead of the National Nursing Quality Report Initiative in Canada.
Learning Objectives:
- Advance understanding of home care safety in Canada
- Determine policy and practice recommendations for promoting client and informal caregiver safety in home care
- Develop an understanding of the resources and tools available for home care providers to deliver safer client care
The link will be available starting at 12 noon EST on May 29, 2014.
To access this seminar, use the internet explorer browser and go to: http://webcast.otn.ca
Under Archived events, click on the green button called “Public Events”. In the top right hand corner of the page, in the search box, type #35539889. Press enter. Click on presentation.
Enjoy!
Your CHNIG Board.