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    • Friday, February 21, 2025
    • 11:45 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Zoom Webinar
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    We join our colleagues from the United Kingdom to recognize this International Mental Health Nurses’ Day on February 21, 2025. We invite all mental health nurses, their employers, organizations, associations, unions, scholars, and others to join in celebrating this unique, remarkable, and impactful field of nursing.

    Join the CFMHN for a Special Online Educational Event on February 21, 2025

    The CFMHN will be holding this half day educational event, which will include sessions on:

    1. Nurses Practicing Psychotherapy, presented by Kama Kalia & Stacey Roles
    2. Psychedelics & Nursing Practice, presented by Shannon Dames
    3. Nurse2Nurse Peer Support, presented by Catrina Stephenson
    4. Building Belonging through Community - Breakout Rooms

    This event is free to CFMHN Members!

    Non-Members can attend for a registration fee of $75.00. Not a CFMHN member? Join now for $50.00 and receive even more benefits by visiting https://www.cfmhn.ca/membership

    Accessing the Zoom Link: CFMHN will send the Zoom link to all registrants closer to the date.

    We eagerly anticipate your participation and look forward to seeing you soon!

    • Friday, February 21, 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Zoom Webinar
    Registration is closed
    CFMHN Educational Webinar: "Re-Thinking Nursing Workforce Strategies - Exploring the History of Registered Psychiatric Nursing Education in British Columbia"

    Learning Objectives:
    1. Explain the social, political, and economic events that contributed to the development of Registered Psychiatric Nursing in BC. 
    2. Define the role Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) played in the development of Registered Psychiatric Nursing.  
    3. Describe the development of RPN education and how it relates to trends in psychiatric nursing in the broader historical context of the 20th century. 
    4. Determine how and when the deinstitutionalization movement in BC occurred and the effect on the RPN role in the BC mental hospital.
    Presented by:
    Michelle C. Danda
    PhD RN CPMHN (C)

    Biography:

    Michelle C Danda is a Registered Nurse who lives on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Halkomelem speaking peoples includig Qayqayt First Nation (qiqéyt). She works in the unceded stolen territory of the Musquem, Squamish, and Tseilwatuth people also known as the Lower Mainland British Columbia. She graduated from the accelerated track nursing program at the University of Calgary in 2008, after completing degrees in sociology and psychology. She recently finished her PhD in nursing at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation focused on the history of psychiatric nursing education in B.C. She works in the area of nursing professional practice with a focus on acute adult inpatient mental health and substance use in Vancouver, BC. She has four beautiful children and a partner who is also a Registered Nurse. 

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