Interest Group Email Archive

Ethics in nursing is the foundation of professional practice, guiding nurses in making moral and ethical decisions while providing patient care. It encompasses principles such as respect, dignity, confidentiality, and advocacy, ensuring that patients receive safe and compassionate treatment.  Nurses must continuously educate themselves on ethical principles and apply them to their daily practice to provide compassionate, fair, and ethical care.

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group in welcoming: 

Greetings SNIG members!

Hoping that you are all doing well. 

*I am inviting you to our AGM, taking place via Zoom on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. ET We will have a short reporting of SNIG activities and then Lhamo Dolkar, RNAO president will speak about RNAO priorities and answer questions. We are close to Lhamo as she is the past chair of SNIG. I expect she will speak about the upcoming provincial election. You will receive the registration email soon. 

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group in welcoming our RNAO President and previous chair of SNIG – Lhamo Dolkar NP – for a short AGM and Q and A

Date and time: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET via Zoom

Register via this weblink: https://chapters-igs.RNAO.ca/events/187

It's a great opportunity to get information on upcoming activities and raise any concerns or questions re: RNAO. Are you planning to attend? Anything specific you'd like to bring up or ask about?

Nursing has always got through hard times using our unique sense of humour and yet in today's world laughter is infrequent and smiles sometimes forgotten especially amongst adults. Maybe we need a reminder of the benefits of laughter. 

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group and the Retired Nurses' Interest Group in welcoming:

Neil Stephen CD.RN CNP(Q), a registered nurse and a certified nurse psychotherapist (Q) who worked in paediatric psychiatry and harm reduction before starting his independent practice. Neil will be sharing his thoughts on this topic: 

Have you ever thought of being a travel nurse? The excitement of travel, seeing new places, and experiencing different areas of nursing calls you! But, as with any career choice, there are always two sides of the story. 

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group in welcoming back Adrienne Kappes, RN.   

Adrienne has a military and travel nursing background and can definitely give the pros and cons to anyone seeking to be a travel nurse!  All who attended last year left with a better knowledge of travel nursing!

Greetings SNIG members. 

I am writing this communication just after the Thanksgiving Holiday. I am now retired from the paid workforce so I am able to spend the holidays with my family. I know many of you are at work during festive times and I thank you for doing the important nursing work of caring for Ontarians every hour and every day of the year. 

I attended the RNAO AGM and enjoyed learning some of the stellar advocacy work of our professional organization. I will discuss a couple of issues in which RNAO is doing progressive work based on evidence.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humour and style.” — Maya Angelou

Thriving is much different than just surviving because they offer entirely different experiences. If you only survive in life, you’ll feel like you’re barely getting by, and you won’t experience much joy. However, if you are thriving, you’ll feel like you live a fulfilling and meaningful life. - Author unknown

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group, the Retired Nurses' Interest Group, and the Windsor-Essex and Waterloo Chapters to welcome:

Dear member,

Do you enjoy speaking out for nurses, health and health care?  We are looking for members to join the Staff Nurse Interest Group (SNIG).

The SNIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:

Hi Members!

Please Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group and the Retired Nurses’ Interest Group for a short joint AGM and a hybrid Zumba Gold Session. Join us online via zoom or in person at the downtown Hilton. Wear your comfy clothes. Breakfast will be served for our in person participants!

Saturday June 22, 2024

Hilton Hotel Meeting Room or online via zoom

AGM: 830-9:00 am

Zumba Gold:  0900-1000am with Shaima Rezatada

Nursing Week Greetings to the members of the Staff Nurse Interest Group!

SNIG is offering a Nursing Week $500 bursary for education to any member of SNIG. Please check it out on SNIG Facebook page. It is easy to apply. 

We apologize this webinar has been cancelled.  Please disregard the email below.

Thanks,
Carrie

________________________________________________________________________________________________Why do we need PPE protection today? Worldwide, we have seen an increase in communicable diseases, for example: polio, TB, measles and other diseases that we thought were under control! And, COVID, flu and RSV still continue to be a problem in most communities. 

Spend your lunch break with the Staff Nurse Interest Group and the Retired Nurses' Interest Group and gain valuable knowledge on the environment and what we can do individually to bring about change. 

Rob Samulack, our speaker, will share insights on COP 28 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in late 2023)  and challenge us on how we can make changes that matter. 

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Time and place: 12–1 p.m. ET via Zoom

Don't miss out! 

Join SNIG and RetNIG for a lunch and learn. Guest: Rob Samulack – Chair of the Ontario Nurses For The Environment interest group

Spend your lunch break with the Staff Nurse Interest Group and the Retired Nurses' Interest Group and gain valuable knowledge on the environment and what we can do individually to bring about change. 

Rob Samulack, our speaker, will share insights on COP 28 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in late 2023)  and challenge us on how we can make changes that matter. 

Let's take action! Step by step and hand in hand. Together, using our political voices we can achieve a better and more sustainable health-care system! 

Learn how to make your voice more effective especially as we head to Queen's Park. Nurses know the problems and likely have a good idea of the solutions necessary. We need to get the policy makers to listen!

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group (SNIG) and Retired Nurses' Interest Groups (RetNIG) for a webinar and discussion featuring Dr. Irmajean Bajnok, senior policy analyst at RNAO, 

The International Nursing Interest Group, Nursing Students of Ontario, Durham Chapter and the Staff Nurse Interest Group of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario cordially invite you to its professional development webinar on March 8, 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET.  

Everyone is welcome – share widely and bring a friend! 

Greetings SNIG members.

We, the executive at SNIG,are sending best wishes for the New Year. We know that this is a difficult time for nurses. We believe it is the most serious situation for nursing and the health-care system since I became an RN in 1971. The situation was serious before the pandemic but 92 per cent of nurses – more than other health-care workers – are feeling more stressed by their work during the pandemic (Statistics Canada, 2022). Nurses report having an increased workload as well.

Need to write a first resume? or are you thinking of applying for a new job and don't know what experience to put down? Perhaps you are applying for a part time job or a new job in your field and haven't upgraded your resume for awhile!

Join the Staff Nurse Interest Group and Nursing Students of Ontario Interest Group in welcoming Riek van den Berg to host a

Resume Writing Workshop

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

7–8 p.m. via zoom

Greetings to all members of the Staff Nurse Interest Group (SNIG)!

* I  have been an executive member of SNIG for several years. Since June, I have been the new chair for SNIG. Our past chair is Lhamo Dolkar, who is now president-elect for RNAO and very occupied with that role. Una Ferguson and Paula Manuel are also long-term executive members who are very active in RNAO. Our other executive members are Brad Manuel and two student members, Hannah Booth and Morgan Kennedy. 

Welcome to all the new and returning members of the Staff Nurse Interest Group (SNIG)! It is the fall season – even though the weather lately has us seeing a delayed summer, much to everyone's delight!  We do hope all of you have had some holidays over the summer and have gotten some well-deserved time off. 

SNIG and RetNIG ask you to join us on Saturday, June 24. 

After a short AGM meeting for both SNIG and RetNIG from 8:30 – 9 a.m. we have invited Shaima Rezatada, a Whitby Zumba instructor, to lead us in a Zumba Gold session. Wear comfy clothes and shoes!

Please register using the link below - people who are unable to attend in person can join via Zoom. 

Date: Saturday, June 24

Time: 8:30 – 10 a.m.