The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has launched a virtual advocacy campaign this week between February 8th and 14th and is calling on all nurses in Canada to send a letter to their Members of Parliament in support of CNA’s 2021 Budget Recommendations. To participate, click on the link below and send a letter to your … Read more
Indigenous Services Canada’s (ISC) First Nations and Inuit Health Branch will accept nominations for the 2021 Award of Excellence in Nursing until February 26, 2021. The Awards will be presented to the three (3) front line recipients during National Nursing Week in a virtual ceremony on Monday, May 10, 2021. Please visit the ISC website … Read more
Mark your calendar and join us for our inaugural virtual conference series in mental health. This accredited four-part webinar series is a joint collaboration between McGill University’s Office for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the McGill Department of Psychiatry, and will welcome family physicians and other medical specialists, residents and medical students, nurse practitioners and … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 28, 2021 – Toronto In 2018, when Jill Andrew, MPP for Toronto-St. Paul’s first championed Bill 61, to get Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) proclaimed officially in Ontario, it didn’t make it through the house. Thanks to her tenacity, and over many years, that of the co-founders of National Initiative for … Read more
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) has partnered with the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) to help healthcare workers and organizations select and compare available suicide risk assessment tools in Canada. For every death by suicide, 15-30 people are profoundly affected – this toolkit can help inform and strengthen the suicide risk assessment process. The … Read more
An interdisciplinary, multi-university research team led by Dr. Bourgeault at the University of Ottawa has contacted our organization, asking us to inform you about an important study they are conducting. The team is exploring the mental health experiences of professional workers, and how these experiences are affected by their personal, work and family life. This … Read more
Practice How expansion of remote monitoring was a win-win for patients and care providers Alberta’s success story in increasing virtual assessments of cardiac devices Nursing ethics provides guidance during the pandemic crisis The COVID-19 pandemic has created new and complicated moral dilemmas for many nurses. The author addresses some of the ethical issues that nurses … Read more
You’re invited to our third Fireside chat with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and the 2020 Faces of Mental Illness Wednesday, January 27 at 1:00pm E.S.T. EST via Facebook Live @CAMIMHACMMSM
Jan 18, 2021 By Kim M. Mitchell , Breanna L. Sawatzky On March 6, 2020, I (K.M.) had my first encounter with someone who refused to shake my hand. She was a nurse from British Columbia, where COVID-19 cases were being diagnosed daily. In Manitoba, COVID-19 was still a problem happening in other communities. Over the next week … Read more
Happy New Year! The Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses is starting to plan a virtual conference for Fall 2021. To create the conference that meets your needs, we need to hear from you! Please complete this 7 minute survey monkey as soon as possible. Deadline January 20, 2021. We hope to hear from you! … Read more
