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infoVOLUME 48 ISSUE 1 SPRING 2017 nursing All Members Vote! Help shape the next 100 years by electing NANB’s President-elect — 14 15 NANB 2017 ELECTION: 33 SAVE THE DATE: 35 DON’T MISS THIS YEARS’ MEET YOUR NANB’S AGM AGM KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON CANDIDATES MAY 31, 2017 COMPASSION FATIGUE NANB 2017 An evening of celebration, recognizing nursing excellence at NANB’s Awards Banquet will follow the AGM, May 31, 2017. Limited tickets are available for $60 Awards(taxes in), which includes a four-course Banquet meal and entertainment. Tickets can be purchased online at www.nanb.nb.ca. 14 Help Shape the Next 100 Years 15 NANB 2017 Election: Meet Your By Electing NANB’s Candidates President-elect Cover All members vote! Help shape the next 100 years. Details on how to cast your vote can be found on page 14. 33 Save the Date: NANB’s AGM 35 Don’t Miss this Years’ May 31, 2017 AGM Keynote Speaker on Compassion Fatigue 2 INFO NURSING SPRING 2017 12 29 12 NANB Participates in CNA’s Annual Parliament 25 Five Legislative Changes in New Brunswick Hill Lobby Day for Nurses 21 Get Involved! 27 Proxy Voting Play an Active Role in Your Association What You Need to Know 23 Continuing Competence Program 29 Informal Caregiving in New Brunswick and the Audit Results Future of Homecare in Canada By Dawn Torpe By Susanne Priest the pulse 5 Message from the President 31 Ask a Practice Consultant 5 Message from the Executive Director 32 Professional Conduct Review Decisions 7 Boardroom Notes 34 Calendar of Events SPRING 2017 INFO NURSING 3 Info Nursing is published twice annually by the Nurses Association of New Brunswick, 165 Regent St., Fredericton, NB, E3B 7B4. 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DESIGNER ROYAMA DESIGN a professional regulatory organization that exsits to protect the TRANSLATION JOSÉ OUIMET EDITOR JENNIFER WHITEHEAD Tel.: (506) 458-8731; Fax: (506) 459-2838; public and to support nurses by promoting and maintaining 1 800 442-4417; Email: [email protected] Canada Post publications mail agreement number 40009407. Circulation 10,000. ISSN 0846-524X. Copyright standards for nursing education and practice and by promoting © 2017 Nurses Association of New Brunswick. Executive Office LAURIE JANES healthy public policy. Executive Director Email: [email protected] PAULETTE POIRIER Executive Assistant, Corporate Secretary 459-2858; Email: [email protected] Regulatory Services LORRAINE BREAU Regulatory Consultant: Professional Conduct Review 459-2857; Email: [email protected] The NANB Board of Directors MINDY PANASKY Administrative Assistant: Regulatory Services 459-2866; Email: [email protected] STACEY VAIL Administrative Assistant: Registration 459-2851; Email: [email protected] ERIKA BISHOP Administrative Assistant: Registration 459-2869; Email: [email protected] Practice LIETTE CLÉMENT Director of Practice 459-2835; Email: [email protected] Brenda Kinney Karen Frenette Joanne Jillian Ring VIRGIL GUITARD President President-Elect LeBlanc-Chiasson Director, Region 2 Nursing Practice Consultant Director, Region 1 783-8745; Email: [email protected] SUSANNE PRIEST Nursing Practice Consultant 459-2854; Email: [email protected] DAWN TORPE Nursing Practice Consultant 459-2853; Email: [email protected] JULIE MARTIN Administrative Assistant: Practice 459-2864; Email: [email protected] Corporate Services SHELLY RICKARD Amy McLeod France Marquis Thérèse Thompson Annie Boudreau Director of Corporate Services Director, Region 3 Director, Region 4 Director, Region 5 Director, Region 6 459-2833; Email: [email protected] MARIE-CLAUDE GEDDRY-RAUTIO Corporate Services Assistant 459-2861; Email: [email protected] Communications and Government Relations JENNIFER WHITEHEAD Manager, Communications and Government Relations 459-2852; Email: [email protected] STEPHANIE TOBIAS Administrative Assistant: Communications 459-2834; Email: [email protected] Lisa Keirstead Rebecca Butler Joanne Sonier Edward Dubé Johnson Public Director Public Director Public Director Director, Region 7 4 INFO NURSING SPRING 2017 Message from THE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Building the Foundation for The the Next 100 Years ‘Cost of Caring’ As your President, I was honoured to experience a truly remark- As a nurse, we are all too familiar with symptoms of difficulty able Centennial year, celebrating 100 years of nursing practice concentrating, and feelings of discouragement, exhaustion, and in New Brunswick. The accomplishments and recognition by irritability; which can be described as compassion fatigue, or our stakeholders and peers, reflected in the Centennial Memory the ‘cost of caring.’ (Figley, 1982) Recognizing this as a condition Book, certainly reminds me how proud I am to be a registered most nurses face daily, NANB has partnered with NBNU to nurse. deliver two educational workshops in September, led by experts With months remaining of my mandate, I am confident in this field. Launching this discussion, NANB’s AGM keynote NANB is building a strong foundation to lead us through the speaker will address this topic. I encourage all members to save- next 100 years. The recently approved three-year Strategic Plan, the-date: Wednesday May 31st and register online via NANB’s informed by members, staff and Board will guide the operations, website (www.nanb.nb.ca). as well as communications plan, with immediate action and In addition to addressing this important theme, the Board implementation. With momentum building, I am excited to of Directors recently approved a Strategic Plan that lays the witness such strength and interest in this year’s Board election foundation for change, and will determine the next three-year (see candidate profiles on page 15). I ask all members, to take operations and communications plans. Elements of the Plan, two minutes and vote online or by phone during the two-week and initiatives moving forward will be shared at the AGM. election in mid-April. This is your chance to influence who Thank you, to those members who responded to the Strategic champions the Association’s voice over the coming years. Plan Survey circulated last Fall. We look forward to embarking Thank you for entrusting me as your president, providing an on this new journey with all members. opportunity to represent registered nurses and nurse practitio- ners, strengthening regulation in the public’s interest. BRENDA KINNEY LAURIE JANES President Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] SPRING 2017 INFO NURSING 5 contributors this issue 23 29 31 DAWN TORPE, RN, MN SUSANNE PRIEST, RN, MN VIRGIL GUITARD, RN Nursing Practice Consultant, NANB Nursing Practice Consultant, NANB Nursing Practice Consultant, NANB Call For Entries Do you have a story idea or article you’d like to see in Info Nursing? Do you have someone you’d like to see profiled or an aspect of nursing you’d like to read more about? Please submit your ideas and sugges- tions to Jennifer Whitehead, Manager of Communications and Government Relations: [email protected] 165 Regent St, Fredericton, NB E3B 7B4 6 INFO NURSING SPRING 2017 BOARDROOM Notes The Board of direcTors meT he meeting began with a full-day Tstrategic planning session facili- tated by Elaine Leclerc, HCS Training on ocToBer 17–19, 2016 aT and Consulting. Review and Monitoring of The NANB headquarTers in Board Policies The Board approved a new process to review and monitor Board policies on a fredericTon. monthly basis thereby increasing direct contact between meetings providing more time for project initiatives and departmental reports, environmental scans, and Board development. Committee Appointments Resolutions Committee The Board approved three nurse members from the Bathurst region to the Resolutions Committee for a SPRING 2017 INFO NURSING 7 BOARDROOM Notes two-year mandate beginning Complaints, Discipline and Review NANB Document Review/Approval November 1, 2016 through August 31, The Board received an activity report The Board approved the following: 2018. Members are: Susan LeBlanc, containing hearing and committee Chair; Caroline Hachey; and Rachel statistics for the period of January 1– Revised Document(s) Boudreau St-Éloy. September 30, 2016. • Entry-Level Competencies for Nurse Practitioners Nominating Committee Internationally Educated The Nominating Committee assists the Nurses (IENs) • Guidelines for the Recognition and Board in fulfilling its responsibility to The Board received a report indicating Management of Problematic Substance Use obtain nominations for election to the statistics respecting the number of in the Nursing Profession Association’s Board of Directors and is applications of initial registration composed of the President-elect as Chair received from internationally educated All NANB documents and position and two nurse directors. nurses since the year 2006. statements are available on the website or call toll-free 1-800-442-4417. The Board approved Joanne LeBlanc- The report indicated increasing Chiasson (Region 1) and Lisa Keirstead applicants between 2008–2011 with a Next Meeting Johnson (Region 7) to support Karen peak of 161 applicants in 2010. The next Board of Directors meeting is Frenette (President-elect), Chair, for a Applicants have continued to decline scheduled for March 16, 2017 at the one-year term beginning October 2016.