"Re-Thinking Nursing Workforce Strategies - Exploring the History of Registered Psychiatric Nursing Education in British

CFMHN Educational Webinar: "Re-Thinking Nursing Workforce Strategies - Exploring the History of Registered Psychiatric Nursing Education in British Columbia"

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the social, political, and economic events that contributed to the development of Registered Psychiatric Nursing in BC.
2. Define the role Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) played in the development of Registered Psychiatric Nursing.
3. Describe the development of RPN education and how it relates to trends in psychiatric nursing in the broader historical context of the 20th century.
4. Determine how and when the deinstitutionalization movement in BC occurred and the effect on the RPN role in the BC mental hospital.

Presented by:

Michelle C. Danda, PhD RN CPMHN (C)

Biography:

Michelle C Danda is a Registered Nurse who lives on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Halkomelem speaking peoples includig Qayqayt First Nation (qiqéyt). She works in the unceded stolen territory of the Musquem, Squamish, and Tseilwatuth people also known as the Lower Mainland British Columbia. She graduated from the accelerated track nursing program at the University of Calgary in 2008, after completing degrees in sociology and psychology. She recently finished her PhD in nursing at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation focused on the history of psychiatric nursing education in B.C. She works in the area of nursing professional practice with a focus on acute adult inpatient mental health and substance use in Vancouver, BC. She has four beautiful children and a partner who is also a Registered Nurse.