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"Unison nurses even requested that International Nurses Day, celebrated on [Florence] Nightingale's birthday (May 12), be moved to a different date." (Unison is Britain's largest trade union representing nurses and other public service workers), Good Night, Florence: With Nursing in Crisis, Some Say It's Time to Retire Nightingale as a Symbol, Nursing Leadership (CJNL), 16(2) 2003: 46-50
Call for Nominations
The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) public processes to advance the research ethics standards and practices of the Tri Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS). Call for Comments, Request for Proposals, Call for Nominations, Public Forums
Call for Papers
Urban Health / Healthy Cities: Call for Expression of Interest to Publish Ideas, Policies and Best Practices
Researchers and authors interested in exploring/publishing papers related to Urban Health / Healthy Cities are invited to contact the publisher at Longwoods. For an overview of topics of interest please visit this page of Urban Health Topics.
Publish or perish: knowledge translation opportunities for institutions and researchers
How Dilbert just "thought myself into a corner." Download PDF
The standing room crowd in Vancouver could not get enough of the conversation between Richard Alvarez and Penny Ballem. -- Now its Richard Alvarez in conversation with Matt Anderson in Toronto. Registration for Breakfast with the Chiefs: May 15, 2007 Richard Alvarez & Matt Anderson. (restricted to selected subscribers and corporate collaborators).
Are pharmacists content to contribute directly to the epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes? Or is this an opportunity demonstrate their commitment to good health. Visit the Longwoods Blog to find out.
OHA HealthAchieve2007: Book the time slot now: November 5, 6 & 7, 2007
Listen to some of the most dynamic leaders like General Colin Powell and humanitarian Queen Noor . . .
For the first quarter of 2007 – web site stats from Longwoods
Over the first three months of 2007, some 383,577 visitors opened 1,456,985 pages on our website. Thank you!
Video Learning
Saint Elizabeth Healthcare presents videos on the leading edge of knowledge and exchange.
Partners for Aboriginal Health
Action, not words: Supporting a different course for Aboriginal health care
Conference Proceedings from Baycrest
Behavioural Problems in Dementia — Late-Life Depression: Connecting Research & Clinical Care.: Download PDF
Queen's University Emergency Syndromic Surveillance Team (QUESST)
A project to generate statistical alarms, monitor disease indicators in real-time or near real-time to detect outbreaks of diseases earlier than would otherwise be possible with traditional public health methods. For details click here.
National Cancer Statistics 2006 Download PDF
eLetters
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Healthcare Quarterly
Reducing Hip and Knee Replacement Wait Times: An Expanded Role for Physiotherapists in Orthopedic Surgical Clinics
Alice B. Aiken, Marg Atkinson, Mark M. Harrison and John Hope
Opinions: The Whistle-Blower in Healthcare
Ronn Goldberg
Opinions: Don't Look South for Answers: The Role of Cultural Imperatives in Canadian and US Healthcare
Peter Nord
Quarterly Change – what’s going on across the country
CHSRF Knowledge Transfer: Broadening the Dialogue to Include Quality
Jennifer Thornhill, Steeve Vigneault and Dave Clements
CIHR Research: Growth in Rehabilitation: Dr. Geoff Fernie's Continuous Efforts to Make Injured Lives Worth Living
Peter Maitland
Cambridge Memorial Hospital's Least Restraint Policy
HealthcarePapers
Reflections on Canada's Public Health Enterprise in the 21st Century
Larry W. Chambers, Shannon M. Sullivan
Healthcare Policy
Determinants of Unacceptable Waiting Times for Specialized Services in Canada
Claudia Sanmartin, Jean-Marie Berthelot and Cameron N. McIntosh
Nursing Leadership
Informatics: Emerging Concepts and Issues
Lynn M. Nagle
Electronic Healthcare
Developing an Electronic Incident Report: Experiences of a Multi-site Teaching Hospital
Anita Tepfers, Hannah Louie and Marc Drouillard
World Health and Population
The Obstetric Pathology of Poverty: Maternal Mortality in Kep Province, Cambodia
Amitha Kalaichandran and David Zakus
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Toronto: May 15
Richard Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Health Infoway in conversation with Matthew Anderson Vice President & Chief Information Officer, University Health Network. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 155 College Street.
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, Agfa HealthCare, Kronos, CGI, and Microsoft
To register for the Toronto dialogue please click here: Registration for Breakfast with the Chiefs: May 15, 2007 Richard Alvarez & Matt Anderson
Mr. Anderson will have his own agenda as he engages Mr. Alvarez but if you have any questions you would like him to ask on your behalf please email these to QuestionsforAlvarez@longwoods.com
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
The June 2007, Evidence-based nursing workshop Download PDF will be held at McMaster University in Hamilton.
May 11-12, 2007: Ottawa, ON. Leadership – understanding the communication challenge. The 9th annual conference of the Canadian Society of Physician Executives. Increasingly physicians are seen as instrumental participants in the management of Canada’s health care system. For more details click here.
Why physicians should not miss this conference Click here: WAIT TIMES: Alan Hudson, MD, OC, Lead, Access to Services and Wait Time Strategy with Jack Kitts, MD, President and CEO, The Ottawa Hospital. REGIONALIZATION: Robert Cushman, MD, CEO, Champlain Health Integration Network; David Mador, MD, Associate Vice-president, Medical Affairs, Capital Health, Edmonton; Judy Kazimirski, MD, Vice President, Medicine, Capital District Health Authority, Halifax. STRATEGIC LEVERS: David Levine, President and Executive Director, Montreal Health and Social Service Agency and much more. Click here.
May 14-16, 2007: Sudbury, ON. Tools, strategies, and stories of using evidence in rural and remote health services delivery and policy development. While the desire to consult research often exists, decision makers frequently face challenges in doing so. Come and learn with other managers and policy makers about a variety of research use tools and resources to help. For details click here.
May 15, 2007: Toronto, ON. HPME Grad Society Education Day. Leadership is no longer simply about visioning, planning and problem solving - today's leaders also need to be inspirational, motivational, emotionally intelligent and capable of building sustainable relationships and partnerships. Get set to hear about effective leadership competencies in a changing healthcare context, with Bob Murphy, a Studer Group National Speaker and Coach, as our keynote speaker. For details click here.
May 25, 2007: Toronto, ON. Showcasing Successes in Health-care Change, Framing Future Challenges. The symposium will recognize the recipients of this year’s Award Program for Innovation in Nursing Human Resources, showcase Foundation-funded projects that have resulted in improvements in health care, and share the Foundation’s fundamental shift in direction, which includes a focus on health integration and quality improvement. For details click here.
May 30-31, 2007: Richmond, BC. Health Quality & Safety: An Inconvenient Truth. Featured speakers: Dr. Peter Norton, Dr. Michael Dector, Francesca Grosso, Dr. Dan O’Connell, Sue Iles & Helen Lingham, David Welton & Dr. Jennifer Yessis, Ryan Sidorchuk, Dr. Art Hister, & David Granirer. Approved for 11 CCHSE MOC Category I credits. For details click here.
June 7-8, 2007: Toronto, ON. Completing the Vision: The Second Stage of Medicare The first in a series of AOHC initiatives to engage and excite Canadians about Tommy Douglas’ original two-stage plan for Medicare. Join Community Health Centres. Envision – and create – the future. For details click here.
June 8, 2007: Toronto, ON. Clinical and Ethical Issues in Geriatric and Long-Term Care. Lectures and workshops focus on geriatric practice for family physicians and allied health care professionals involved in the care of the aged. For details click here.
June 11-12, 2007: Toronto, ON. The National Healthcare Leadership Conference presented by Canadian College of Health Service Executives and the Canadian Healthcare Association. The theme of the conference is Innovation in Health Services: From Local Leadership to National Performance. For details click here.
June 12-14, 2007: Toronto, ON. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. Join Canada’s top health services and policy researches at the annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. This year it is being held June 12-14 in Toronto and is linked with the National Health Care Leadership Conference. Plenary speakers include: Roy Romanow, Tom Noseworthy, Bob Evans, Terry Sullivan and Adalsteinn Brown. Over 100 sessions on groundbreaking research. For details click here.
For our complete list of conferences and events go here.
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Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.
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