MHNIG Annual General Meeting: January 28, 2022

Posted on Dec. 14, 2021, 9:53 a.m.

Join us for our AGM!
January 28, 2022 from 0930 - 1630 via Zoom.

Three Educational Sessions:

1. Anti-Human Trafficking by: Kelly Tallon, Founder and Chief Executive Director of Courage for Freedom
    With Introduction from Racheal Radyk, Indigenous Nurses and Allies Interest Group Chair


Brief Objectives:

  • Create specific modules for nurses who have some trauma-informed care experience and doctors also.
  • Potential presentations and triggers in your care. 
  • Entrenched behaviors and how they can affect the capacity to communicate and professionals understanding of patients, information
  • Safety for both patients and staff with respect to secondary persons and activities
  • Protocols and procedures that may cause difficulty in system navigation for victims/survivors.
  • Difference between support for domestic or partner violence victims and sex trafficking and sexual exploitation victims
  • Making sense of what you are seeing, hearing, and sensing without giving you more work to do

2. Nurses and Forensic Psychiatric Review Board Hearings by: Jean-Laurent Domingue 
   
Objectives:

  • Review the functioning of the forensic psychiatric system, particularly how Review Board hearings operate.
  • Understand and problematize the role of nurses in Review Board hearing processes
  • Discuss the implications of the study’s results for the practice of nurses 

3. Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Building Resiliency by: Mary-Lou Martin

Objectives:

  • Describe stress, compassion fatigue and its relevance to resiliency.
  • Describe the key components and process of building and fostering resiliency.
  • Reflect on your own abilities, values and beliefs about the connection between resilience and well-being.
  • Describe evidence-based ways to support resilience in yourself and other nurses in creating a healthy work culture.

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