CNA Survey on Nursing Care Delivery Models

We are posting this message from the Canadian Nurses Association with a request to complete a survey on nursing care delivery models. Please click on the survey link below for more details and to start the survey.

Help shape your nursing practice environment

We need your expertise. Please take the time to make a difference by completing this second Delphi survey on nursing care delivery models, including staff mix. The first survey, which took place in May 2011, asked for opinions about the importance of principles. Questions were based on existing literature and the results of a round table meeting and a staff mix working group. This second survey is based on items from the first survey that were rated as very important or important by more than 90% of the respondents.

NOTE: This survey is open to everyone, including those who did not participate in the first survey.

This second survey builds on the results of the first survey and will help us finalize a list of guiding principles to inform policy-makers and administrators in making decisions about nursing care delivery models, including staff mix, for Canadian health-care organizations.

This survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. We encourage you to share the survey with colleagues by forwarding this e-mail to them. The survey deadline is July 3, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Norma Freeman at 1-800-361-8404, ext. 219 or send her an e-mail.

Thank you.

ICN urges you to lend your voice to the demand for a reprieve of the unjust and unacceptable prison sentences for Bahraini nurses

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has denounced the unjust and unacceptable prison sentences handed down to 20 Bahraini health professionals, including nurses, from the Salmaniya Medical Complex. The sentences range between 5 and 15 years, including a disgraceful 15-year sentence given to Rula Jassim Mohammed Al-Saffar, a leader of the Bahrain Nursing Society. ICN has called for the charges against the health professionals to be dropped and for them to be reinstated in their positions, so they can continue to care for all who need them.

ICN also calls on its member national nurses associations and all those concerned with protecting health workers in the exercise of their duty to care for all in peace time or during times of conflict, to speak out and to write directly to authorities in the Kingdom of Bahrain demanding that charges be dropped and sentences reprieved.

Please write immediately. You may wish to consider including the following points:

• The critical importance of protecting health workers to the exercise of their duty to care for all in peace time or during times of conflict.
• Concern that the 20 health professionals were sentenced by a military court after what appears to have been an unfair and politically motivated trial.
• Call for the charges against the health professionals to be dropped and for them to be reinstated in their positions, so they can continue to care for all who need them.
• Urge the authorities to immediately set up an independent investigation into the alleged torture or other ill-treatment of some of the defendants, to make its results public, and bring to justice anyone responsible.

CNA Survey on Nursing Care Delivery Models

Creative Nonfiction is seeking essays by and about nurses for a new collection, Becoming a Nurse: Real Stories of Nurses, Their Lives and Their Patients. We're looking for stories from a variety of viewpoints, and we are hoping you will help us reach your members. Most Americans will be hospitalized at some point in their lives, and nurses will be their most consistent point of contact with the health care establishment.

While doctors have long been the subjects of the more glamorous pop culture depictions of medicine, nurses provide the day-in, day-out care for patients and families. But what motivates nurses to enter, and to stay in, this demanding profession, and how are their daily lives affected by ongoing changes in the healthcare system? Becoming a Nurse will present readers with the world of medicine from the perspective of nurses in hospitals, in-home care programs, long-term care facilities, hospices, and the armed forces as they tell stories that recall and recreate the most salient moments of their careers. We are looking for writers who can write dramatically and vividly about this profession for a collection of essays, which will be published by Creative Nonfiction. Essays can be from 2,500-5,000 words but should be written in a narrative form, with scenes, description, vivid characters and a distinctive voice.

To submit, please send your manuscript to:
Please include a word count on the first page of the essay, as well as your contact information and an SASE or email address for response. Any additional questions can be directed to information@creativenonfiction.org. Submissions must be postmarked by November 30, 2011. Thanks for your time. I appreciate any help you can provide in sharing this announcement. Please don't hesitate to be in touch with any questions.

Nursing Consultant Notice

ARNBC is looking for an experienced nursing consultant, on a short-term contract basis, to assist in a province-wide consultation process.

The intent of the consultation is to:

• Gather ideas for the primary functions of the ARNBC
• Determine the optimal structure and governance that will serve the organization's functions
• Explore preferred methods of communication and engagement
• Investigate how the ARNBC could achieve financial sustainability into the future

The contractor's role will involve facilitation of consultation sessions with nurses and close collaboration with our Board of Directors and project staff in planning and carrying out the consultation from January to March, 2012.

Candidates should posses the following competencies:

• Proven group facilitation skills
• Experience in conducting widespread consultation processes
• An understanding of current nursing issues in British Columbia
• Knowledge of the structure and mandates of nursing organizations

Please submit a cover letter and a resume by December 15, 2011 to:

Nora Whyte, ARNBC Project Manager: nwhyte@shaw.ca

For additional information, please call Nora at: 888-289-8534

ARNBC Welcomes CNA Delegation

December 10, 2011

The Board of ARNBC is pleased to welcome CNA President Dr. Judith Shamian and a team of senior CNA personnel when their Cross-Country Tour comes to British Columbia from December 11 to 14. Accompanying the president are Rachel Bard, Chief Executive Officer, Margot McNamee, Senior Nurse Advisor and Barb Wright, Parliamentary Relations Coordinator.

The purpose of the tour is member and government engagement on nursing and health policy topics. The tour will create opportunities for registered nurses and nurse practitioners to share ideas with CNA and to learn about major initiatives, including the National Expert Commission.

The BC tour begins in Kamloops on Sunday and Monday. The CNA team will participate in a meeting with students and faculty at Thompson Rivers University and will also connect with Interior Health nurses during site visits and meetings. The team travels to Victoria for meetings at the Ministry of Health on Tuesday followed by a luncheon meeting with representatives of the Vancouver Island Health Authority and faculty members from the Schools of Nursing at Camosun College and the University of Victoria. The final day will be spent in Vancouver making site visits to Vancouver Coastal Health facilities and Providence Health Care.