Longwoods eLetter February 21, 2006

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Longwoods eLetter February 21, 2006
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein

NURSING LEADERSHIP
Illuminating the Clinical Nurse Specialist Role of Advanced Practice Nursing: A Qualitative Study
Connie Canam

ACEN’s Annual Report: September 2004 to November 2005
Mary Ellen Jeans

A Sabbatical Journey of Discovery: The Liberation of Nursing
Mary Ferguson-Paré

ERRATUM: Researchers please note.

The page numbers in the table of contents of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, Volume 18, Number 4, 2005 do not accurately reflect the actual page numbers. Any references made to material in this journal should reflect the actual page numbers, not the table of contents.

PUBLISHER’s RELEASE | meet the new nurse graduates
Longwoods, in collaboration with the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses, will be supporting Canada’s student nurses in a variety of ways. For starters they have selected the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership as a journal of choice and we will provide them unlimited access. The Canadian Journal of Nursing Research joins us. The students have also agreed to support initiatives for mentoring, recruiting and continued education. If you have ideas for us write: grads@longwoods.com. Let us know if and how we can introduce you to this year’s graduates.

journal of Nursing research
Impact Factors and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Laurie N. Gottlieb and Sean P. Clarke
Do nursing research journals have impact, influence, or importance?

Aboriginal Health and Nursing Research: Postcolonial Theoretical Perspectives
David Gregory
An unfulfilled vision

HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Application of Lean Six Sigma for Patients Presenting with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: The Hamilton Health Sciences Experience
Ayad Aldarrab, Christopher MB Fernandes, James Velianou, Madhu Natarajan, Rosanne Zimmerman, Rhonda Smith, Teresa Smith and Jennifer Pickering

Advancing Health System Integration through Supply Chain Improvement
Mike Rosser

LAW & GOVERNANCE
A Brave New World of Hospital Board Governance
Louise Shap
The Ontario healthcare sector — where fragmentation and duplication are endemic to its structure..

Patient Wait Times: A Benchmark Issue in Healthcare
William P. Georgas and Lynne Golding
Health Services Research after Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General): New Inspiration, New Challenges

READERSHIP SURVEY
How many journal readers go online? How many don’t?
A survey designed to set benchmarks to measure the impact of a new collaboration with Google.

Healthcare POLICY
Knowledge Translation to Advance the Nurse Practitioner Role in British Columbia
Marjorie MacDonald, Sandra Regan, Heather Davidson, Rita Schreiber, Jane Crickmore, Lesley Moss, Janet Pinelli, Bernadette Pauly

Experiencing Difficulties Accessing First-Contact Health Services in Canada
Claudia Sanmartin and Nancy Ross

Inclusivity and Dementia: Health Services Planning with Individuals with Dementia
Kyle Whitfield, Susan Wismer

Reflections on Conversations with Robert Bell and Michael Guerriere: What Is Relevant Research?
Anton Hart

LONGWOODS oNLINE
The Wait List List. Check it out here. If you can add to it please send additional link(s) to waitlistlist@longwoods.com

Profiles of People and Place. For example: Judith Shamian | Joan Shaver | Esther Green | Dr. Patricia Petryshen | Rob Calnan, Michael J. Villeneuve & David Gregory

BREAKFAST WITH THE CHIEFS
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
Focus: BC Policy | BC Politics — one day after the budget.
Speaker: Dr. Penny Ballem. Deputy Minister of Health
Under the auspices of the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations.
Supported by Microsoft, Accenture, Telus, Cerner, 3M and Compass Group. Hosted by the Provincial Health Services Authority. Chan Auditorium, ground level, 950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver. Registration is now closed. Come by chance and join 205 registered guests. We will find you a spot.

February 28. 8 am to 9 am. Breakfast with the Chiefs. Toronto. Dr. Arthur Porter. Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Focus: A model university health centre within the Quebec system of healthcare. A CEO’s perspective on Chaoulli — revisited. Register with LLopez@longwoods.com

March 21. 8 am to 9 am Breakfast with the Chiefs. Toronto. The Annual State of Electronic Healthcare Address | the unvarnished version. Dr. Michael Guerriere, Managing Partner Courtyard Group, Chair, Ryerson University and Editor in Chief of the journal Electronic Healthcare. Get the details from: Lina Lopez at llopez@longwoods.com.

March 22. 8 am to 9 am Breakfast with the Chiefs. Vancouver. BC Women's and Children's Chan Education Centre. Why CIHI gets the front pages of the papers — every time! More and better information to run you organizations. With Glenda Yeates, CEO of CIHI. Get the details from: Rebecca Hart at rhart@longwoods.com.

See past presentations on video here. Brought to you by TELUS

Breakfast with the Chiefs on Video

MORE CONFERENCES & EVENTS
8th Annual Workshop: Call for Ideas. The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation 8th Annual Invitational Workshop - Innovation through Collaboration: Working together for an evidence-informed health system - will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 21-22, 2006. We are currently accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Call for Papers: Due by March 31, 2006. The fifth international, inter-disciplinary Evidence-Based Policies & Indicator Systems Conference to be held in London, UK on the 11th - 13th July 2006. Theme:” What can social science evidence do for policy making and public services?" Please see www.cemcentre.org/eb2006. Recommended by CHSRF.

+ 50 Conferences a year: Review of Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) | Public health and emergency management legislation | Long-Term Care | Bill 123, Transparency in Public Matters Act. www.OHA.com/conferences

Registered Nurses Association Of Ontario | all conferences click here.
February 23, 2006 Regional Workshop, Toronto. Fight or Flight . . . Professional Solutions to Conflict in the Workplace

MORE CONFERENCES HERE
[send your conference details to eletter@longwoods.com]

AWARDS
Healthcare Communicators: How to submit for the Hygeia Awards: Go here now!

International Best Practices Awards – photo story (plus OHA pics well worth a peak)
CHITTA Awards – photo story (plus news and more transitions in electronic healthcare)
CIHR Awards – photo story (plus news and more transitions)

LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS [For the record]
Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown to ADM, Health System Strategy, MOHLTC Ontario
Maureen Adamson to ADM, Health System Investment and Funding, MOHLTC Ontario
Hugh MacLeod to ADM, Health System Accountability and Performance, MOHLTC Ontario
Dawn Ogram, to ADM, Corporate Support, MOHLTC Ontario
Dr. Sheela Basrur to ADM, Public Health and Chief Medical Officer of Health, MOHLTC Ontario
John McKinley, Acting ADM, Community Health Division (MOHLTC) — unchanged
Mary Kardos-Burton, ADM Acute Services Division (MOHLTC) — unchanged
Dr. Josh Tepper, ADM, Health Human Resources Strategy (MOHLTC) — unchanged

Review all recently reported Transitions here (close to 300 reported)

[Send you leadership transitions to eletter@longwoods.com]

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Connecting the Dots: the Health Council’s 2006 videos
Change doesn’t come easily, especially in a system as complex as health care. Yet the Health Council continues to find communities where health care professionals are working together in new ways to provide better quality care. Click here for the full story...

Morris Barer discusses CIHR’s role in the development of Canada’s first evidence-based benchmarks for wait times, and health policy consultant Steven Lewis interviews Claudia Sanmartin about life as a wait times researcher. In the latest (say it with an booming echo) Research Spotlight.

LEADERSHIP JOBSITE
Organ and Tissue Donation On-Call Support Team Members - Trillium Gift of Life Network
Director, Professional Support Services - Clinidata Corporation
Senior Advisor, Health Human Resource Planning - BC Ministry of Health
Director, Health Services Information (Toronto-based) - (CIHI)
Executive Director, Atlantic Canada - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Clinical Manager, Urology, Plastic Surgery & General Surgery - The Ottawa Hospital
Nursing Student and New Grad Program - Vancouver Coastal Health
Care Coordinator - West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto
Challenging Opportunities - Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Perioperative Nursing at Royal Columbian Hospital
New BC Graduate Nurse (RN/RPN) Program - Deadline to Apply is April 30th, 2006
Undergraduate Nursing Program - Deadline to Apply is March 15th, 2006
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Managers - Burntwood Regional Health Authority
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Fraser Health
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Healthcare Quarterly Careers - NEW - (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers - NEW- (PDF)
Live and Work in Canada
Leadership Careers in nursing

Visit our portal of 78 participating recruitment centres

[Send your career opportunities to Susan Hale at shale@longwoods.com]

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