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S U M M E R 2014 VolUME 70 No 2 CARNA Provincial Council 2013–2014 President Shannon Spenceley, PhD, RN Lethbridge 780.909.7058 president@nurses.ab.ca President-Elect Sheila McKay, MN, RN Red Deer 403.358.6428 smckay@nurses.ab.ca Northwest Region Jerry Macdonald, BScN, CCN(C), RN Grande Prairie 780.978.1348 jmacdonald@nurses.ab.ca Northeast Region Carrie Rosa, RN Caslan 780.689.9401 crosa@nurses.ab.ca Edmonton/West Region Alison Landreville, MN, RN Medicine Hat 403.878.4700 alandreville@nurses.ab.ca Lisa McKendrick-Calder, MN, BSc, RN Edmonton 780.633.7591 lmckendrick@nurses.ab.ca Trevor Small, MHS, BScN, RN Edmonton 780.863.1727 tsmall@nurses.ab.ca CentRAl Region Amie Kerber, BScN, RN Blackfalds 403.877.6010 akerber@nurses.ab.ca Sheila McKay, MN, RN Red Deer 403.346.1994 smckay@nurses.ab.ca Calgary/West Region Jeanne Besner, PhD, CM, RN Calgary 403.771.0069 jbesner@nurses.ab.ca Dory Glaser-Watson, BScN, CLNC, PNC(C), RN Calgary 403.241.3865 dglaserwatson@nurses.ab.ca Kevin Huntley, MN, NP Calgary 403.875.6061 khuntley@nurses.ab.ca South Region Janet Lapins, BScN, RN Lethbridge 403.381.1397 jlapins@nurses.ab.ca CARNA Staff Directory Public RepresentativeS Michael Dungey Calgary 403.483.4710 mdungey@nurses.ab.ca George Epp Taber 403.223.3170 gepp@nurses.ab.ca Margaret Hunziker, BA, MA Cochrane 403.932.2069 mhunziker@nurses.ab.ca Marlene Pedrick, BA, BSW Sherwood Park 780.504.7889 mpedrick@nurses.ab.ca Doug Romaniuk, BEd St. Albert 780.951.3142 dromaniuk@nurses.ab.ca All staff can be reACHed by calling: 780.451.0043 or toll-free 1.800.252.9392 Chief Executive Officer: Mary-Anne Robinson Complaints Director/Director, Conduct: Sue Chandler Director of Communications and Government Affairs: Margaret Ward-Jack Director of Corporate Services: Jeanette Machtemes Director of Policy and Practice: Carolyn Trumper Registrar/Director, Registration Services: Cathy Giblin Deputy Registrars: Terry Gushuliak, Steven Leck, Loreta Suyat, Barbara Waters Deputy Complaints Director: Betty Anderson Registration Consultants: Carrie Gronau, Nan Horne, Shelley MacGregor, Nancy MacPherson, Michelle Morrison Conduct Counsel: Gwendolyn Parsons Policy and Practice Consultants: Debra Allen, Donna Harpell Hogg, Debbie Phillipchuk, Penny Davis, Pam Mangold Program and Evaluation Consultant: Trish Paton NEPAB Consultants: Lori Kashuba, Margareth Mauro Regional Coordinators: Northwest: Kim Kimpe 780.978.7781 Northeast: Barb Diepold 780.826.5383 Edmonton/West: Barb Perry 587.523.5498 Betty McMorrow 780.710.3316 Central: Heather Wasylenki 403.782.2024 Calgary/West: Lisa Tran 403.919.8752 Beverlie Johnson 403.625.3260 South: Pat Shackleford 403.394.0125 Valerie Mutschler 403.504.5603 Alberta Registered Nurses Educational Trust: Margaret Nolan CONTENTS 4 New Provincial Council Members 5 Letters to the Editor 6 What’s new at renewal 9 Call for committee volunteers 12 Can decreasing antipsychotic use lead to growth in mental and emotional health? 15 Assignment of Client Care document revisions 16 New national assessment service Vascular risk reduction 17 Interview with Deputy Minister Janet Davidson 20 Publications ordered by Hearing Tribunals 23 Family of nurses share a remarkable bond 24 CARNA Awards of Nursing Excellence recipients 33 ARNET scholarship recipients 34 In Memoriam 35 NoticeBoard and Reunions 46 Closing Perspectives: Every nurse a leader Alberta RN is published four times a year by: College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta 11620-168 Street Edmonton, AB T5M 4A6 Phone: 780.451.0043 Toll free in Canada: 1.800.252.9392 Fax: 780.452.3276 www.nurses.ab.ca Managing Editor: Margaret Ward-Jack Editor: Rachel Champagne Assistant Editor: Kyla Gaelick Designer: Julie Wons Advertising Representative: Jan Henry, McCrone Publications Phone: 800.727.0782 Fax: 866.413.9328 mccrone@interbaun.com Please note CARNA does not endorse advertised services, products or opinions. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Circulation Dept., 11620-168 Street, Edmonton, AB T5M 4A6. albertarn@nurses.ab.ca WILLIAM AU PHOTOGRAPHY 2 Alberta RN Summer 2014 Volume 70 No 2 www.nurses.ab.ca
President’s Update Leading the Way in Primary Health Care I was at a meeting not long ago where it was brought to my attention that the messages out of the government around primary health care seem to be losing steam. I have wondered about this, too – I know that it is the nature of politics to “move on” in order to catch the public’s attention in new ways – but primary health care can’t be the flavour of the month – it’s just too important to lose sight of. Furthermore, every discussion of primary health care seems to start and stop with primary (medical) care. Don’t get me wrong: primary care is really important – and I am passionate about community-based, comprehensive, person-centred primary care delivered by interdisciplinary teams… but that is NOT the same thing as primary health care! Primary health care can’t be the flavour of the month – it’s just too important...” Primary care is one part of a community, and the place where most people first interact with the health-care system. So primary care is a place, and an opportunity to engage people around what matters to them in terms of their health. To be sure, care for medical problems is an important service in such places – but it’s the engagement and relationship with people that really matters. If that relationship is informed by the principles of primary health care as envisioned in the Alma Ata in 1978 (http://www.who.int/ publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf), then you really do have an opportunity to influence health – and to see it in action is humbling. Primary health care in action is what I saw during a recent visit to the Boyle McCauley Health Centre. The Boyle McCauley Health Centre (BMHC) has been serving Edmonton’s inner city population for 30 years. The very first thing I heard from the BMHC team was this: “this place arose from the community for the purpose of meeting the needs of the community”– they are proud of their community roots. They are prouder still of their philosophy around meeting need: it isn’t about following the funding, it’s about doing the right thing for their population. When they have a chance to meet an emerging need in their community, they don’t say “well, that’s not really about health.” Instead, they find a way to meet the need either directly, or in a partnership with others. They have established networks of influence and communication across many sectors – housing, income supports, education, policing, victims services… wherever they need to link and partner to assist their clients – and can you guess where the biggest disconnect is for them in meeting their client’s needs? You guessed it: the rest of the health-care system. This is the population that few want to pay attention to or talk about. They are the homeless, the impoverished, the displaced, the addicted, the mentally ill, and often the victims of violence – in short, the truly vulnerable. The nurses I met shared stories of how their clients are treated in other parts of the health-care system – it’s as though the rest of the system doesn’t think primary health care has anything to do with them. That’s the danger of thinking that primary care and primary health care are the same thing. Primary health care isn’t “out there” somewhere… it should live, breathe and inform everything we do in health care, everywhere we do it. Primary health care requires a major shift in focus, “[Primary health care] is where the full scope of nursing practice meets the full scope of the human health experience.” attitude and behaviour. It isn’t simply about rearranging the services we can provide – it’s about reorienting the whole system – and ourselves. It starts with the client/community – and requires working together to discover what is getting in the way of being healthy. In other words, health is what the client says it is. Then, it’s working in partnership to find a way to meet the need. As one of the team members said to me: it’s never just a medical problem – in fact, that might be the thing the client is least worried about. Primary health care and its principles are truly at the core of nursing knowledge. This is where the full scope of nursing practice meets the full scope of the human health experience. As leaders in health care, RNs have an important role to play in shifting the conversation about primary health care in the direction it needs to go. Primary health care isn’t a place, and it isn’t about health-care providers. It’s an approach that’s led by the population we serve, wherever we serve them. The team at Boyle McCauley not only shows how it can be done… they inspire all of us to remember to speak up for the vulnerable, and to continue to advocate for a primary health care approach that doesn’t leave anyone behind. RN Shannon Spenceley, PhD , RN 780.909.7058 president@nurses.ab.ca Connect with Shannon: @SSpenceley expertcaringmatters.ca www.nurses.ab.ca Summer 2014 Volume 70 No 2 Alberta RN 3
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