Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice (CCHN ...

Workshop/Presentation
Approximate Time
Intended Audience
Objectives
1. Workshop 1: Introduction
to the CCHN Standards
2 - 2.5 hours, depending on
number of groups, time given
to discussion, and time to
report to full group
Community health nurses
• On staff
• Newly employed
Student nurses
1. Provide background on the development of
the Standards
2. Develop knowledge of specific Standards
with examples from Home, Public, and
Community Health Nursing Practice
3. Identify how the Standards can support
practice, benefit organizations and contribute
to the health of the community
4. Identify the use of Standards in your
community experience
2. Workshop 2: Application
of CCHN Standards in Team
Practice
2- 3 hours, depending on
number of groups, time given
to discussion, and time to
report to full group
Nurses/Nursing teams with
community experience/or with
varying levels of education and
experience (examples relate t
Public Health)
1. Reaffirm knowledge of the CCHN Standards
2. Situate the CCHN Standards in relation to
other professional requirements or
expectations
3. Identify how the CCHN Standards are
presently being used in Public Health
4. Explore specific examples of how teams
currently use the CCHN Standards in
activities, tasks, or programs
5. Develop examples of how teams could
incorporate the CCHN Standards in next
six months
Step 4 Taking action
Workshop 1 introduces the Standards and challenges
participants to find their own examples in order to make
the Standards meaningful for them. The relationship of
the CCHN Standards to provincial/territorial nursing
standards is discussed. As a follow-up activity to the
workshop, participants are asked to consider how the
CCHN Standards can be combined with their regulatory
nursing requirements and asked to report their findings at
the next workshop. An evaluation form is provided.
Workshop 2 encourages teams to apply the CCHN
Standards by developing examples from their practice for
each Standard and planning how to increase use of the
Standards in their practice. Liz Haugh of the Windsor-
Essex County Health Unit contributed a tool showing the
application of each CCHN Standard in Public Health
programs: “Department Practice Example Tool for
Standards” that can be found in the resource section. This
tool can be used to document the team’s initial examples.
Then, as teams begin to define and harmonize their
practice in terms of the CCHN Standards, they can update
the tool on a regular basis to track changes. It might also
be used to record objectives they want to achieve in a
certain area. These characteristics make the tool a
working document that practitioners maintain. The
process of identifying and tracking practice changes
related to each CCHN Standard is as important as the
document itself.
Download the powerpoint presentations from the CD
and adapt them based on the learning needs assessment
for your organization. The resource section provides
additional sources of information for specific areas.
Organizational Policies and Practices.
This section provides suggestions on how to integrate
the CCHN Standards into organizational policies and
procedures: hiring policy; position descriptions or
profiles hiring interview guide; orientation material and
performance appraisal.
Hiring Policy: The organization may want to consider
adding the following statement to recruitment
advertisement for community health nursing positions.
The statement informs potential applicants that they
would be expected to display some awareness of the
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