Nursing BC back issues from June 2006:
COLUMN ONE
Jun 01, 2006; ... Building Public Confidence The following is excerpted from the President's address at the 2006 Annual General Meeting. This is a landmark event. After 94 years of coming together annually to deal with matters that reflect the self-regulation of nursing, this is the first Annual ...
From the Board
Jun 01, 2006; ... SCOPE OF PRACTICE LIMITS AND CONDITIONS Provincial legislation authorizes CRNBC to establish standards, limits and conditions related to registered nurses' scope of practice. Standards for registered nurse activities were approved by the Board in 2005. These standards set out ...
CRNBC-Certified Practices Nurse Practitioner PLAR
Jun 01, 2006; ... CRNBC-Certified Practices CRNBC-certified practices refer to activities that a registered nurse cannot initiate and/or carry out until the registered nurse has been certified by CRNBC following successful completion of an educational course established or approved by or under the CRNBC ...
Is it within the scope of RN practice or is it delegation?
Jun 01, 2006; ... Q I work in an emergency department and we currently do defibrillation as a delegated act or function. Now that registered nurses have a new scope of practice, would this still be a delegated medical act? A The simple answer to your question is no. Defibrillation is an intervention ...
2006 CRNBC Annual General Meeting
Jun 01, 2006; ... CRNBC's first Annual General Meeting was both a time to reflect and a time to consider the future. Since 1918, nursing has been a self-regulating profession in British Columbia, beginning with the Graduate Nurses Association of British Columbia, which in the 1930s became the Registered ...
Vision With Action
Jun 01, 2006; ... The following is excerpted from the Executive Director's address at the 2006 Annual General Meeting. It was almost 100 years ago that nurses came together in New Westminster to form the Graduate Nurses Association. It was their vision of achieving a registration act for nurses that ...
LETTERS
Jun 01, 2006; ... Duty to Provide Care In reference to You Asked in Nursing BC (Duty to Provide Care, February 2006), I am writing to express my concern regarding advice given when a registered nurse accompanies a patient to another facility for a clinical procedure and, while at that facility, is asked ...
2006 CRNBC Awards
Jun 01, 2006; ... Award of Merit This award is presented to registered nurses who have made outstanding contributions to the nursing profession at provincial, national and international levels. This is the most prestigious honour granted by CRNBC. Rob Calnan, RN Some people are born ...
Complementary and Alternative Health Care: The Role of the Nurse
Jun 01, 2006; ... CRNBC has recently published a Practice Standard entitled Complementary and Alternative Health Care that sets out requirements related to nurses' practice. The primary obligation of a nurse (includes registered nurses, licensed graduate nurses and nurse practitioners) is to provide safe ...
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Jun 01, 2006; ... STRATEGIC LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT (Course Code: CE_06SLD) A series of three workshops in Nanaimo, BC Dates to be announced - check the CRNBC website www.crnbc.ca Helping clients, family, colleagues and students learn is an inherent part of clinical nursing ...