2009 Conference Presentations

Workshop Presentations:

Frontline Mental health Nursing:Caring for Canadian ForcesMembers in Kandahar. Lieutenant Commander Rose CollinsRN BScN CPMHN©23 October 2009
PTSD in the Community Setting, Halifax Oct 2009LCol Rakesh Jetly MD FRCPC

Presentations:

Session: 1A1 Fostering Hope: An Evidenced-Based Nursing Guideline to Promote Wellness and Healing in Suicidal Individuals - Josephine Muxlow
Session: 1A2 Connecting with Hope, A Care Plan for Suicidal Persons - Petra Taylor
Session: 1B1 A Vision of Hope, Health and Healing - Nancy Brookes
Session: 1B2 A Multidisciplinary, Solution-Focused, Healthy Lifestyle Education Group for Persons with Mental Illness - Lisa Murata
Session: 1C1 A Pre-admission “Readiness” Support Group for Eating Disorders Patients - Kirsti Weekes
Session: 1C2 A Best Practice Guideline as a Strategy for Suicide Risk Education and Prevention - Elaine Santa Mina
Session: 1D1 Mental Health Consultation Liason Nursing: Mind over Matter - Kris Lischynski
Session: 1D2 Quality of Life.. Defined by people living with schizophrenia & their families - Florence Budden
Session: 2B2 Innovative and Integrative Health Practices in Mental Health - Shari Vogler
Session: 2C2 The theory of protective empowering as a lens for health, healing and hope with individuals in acute psychiatric-mental health settings - Rosalina F. Chiovitti
Session: 2D1 Narrative and Solution Focused Approaches ‘Supporting change through a helpful conversation’ - Marina Johnston
Session: 2D2 "A Day in the Lives of Experienced Registered Nurses as Case Managers with the Supportive Community Outreach Team (SCOTeam)" - Lorenna Rose-Hines
Session: 3A1 Evaluating an Innovative Partnership Between a Community Mental Health Agency and a Hospital Inpatient Program - Brenda Moore
Session: 3A2 DHA Collaboration - Community Partnership - Consumer Empowerment A Unique Combination for Rural Psychosocial Rehabilitation - Maureen Jones
Session: 3C2 SEEI Phase 2 Study, An Evaluation of Community Based Discharge Planning - Elisabeth Jensen
Session: 3D1 Emergency Department Diversion (EDD) Project - Mary Compton
Session: 3D2 Diverting Psychiatric Crises in Emergency Departments: An innovative model of shared care delivery - Lorraine Schubert
Session: 4A1 Advanced Practice Nursing: CNS Role with Child-Youth Mental Health, First Nations & Inuit Health, in Atlantic Canada - Barbara Broom
Session: 4A2 Aboriginal Mental Health: Government Policies in Canada and Australia–Have they Helped or Hindered Healing ? - Arlene Kent-Wilkinson
Session: 4B1 Exploring Immigrant Women’s Mental Health Experiences using a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective Inquiry - Joyce O'Mahony
Session: 4B2 Addressing Social Justice in the Context of Mental Health Nursing and Suicide Risk Reduction and Prevention Best Practice Guidelines - Victoria Smye
Session: 4C2 Newcomers’ Experiences with Accessing Mental Health Services: An Ethnographic Study - Kamini Kalia
Session: 4D1 Health, hope and healing: Mental health nurses and the environment - Nancy Brookes
Session: 4D2 Nurses Caught in the Middle of Psychiatric Patients’ Smoking - Debra Scharf
Session: Round Table A “Continuing Education for Collaborative Mental Health Care: An Interprofessional Education, E-Learning Approach” - Ann Greene
Session: Round Table B Bringing the 10 Essential Shared Capabilities for the Whole Mental Health Workforce Across the Ocean - Nancy Brookes
Session: 5A1 Hope for the Future: A Clinical Innovation for Advanced Psychiatric Nursing Practice - Lydia Ritchie
Session: 5A1 Hope for the Future: A Clinical Innovation for Advanced Psychiatric Nursing Practice - Gillian Strudwick
Session: 5B1 Advancing the Role of the Community Mental Health Nurse in an Isolated First Nations Community - Bernadine Wallis
Session: 5B2 Building Collaborative Practice To Promote A Healthy Work Environment Facing Challenges- Building Solutions - Susanne Sferrazza-Swayze
Session: 5C1 Creating Inpatient Access for Mental Health Clients in a Large Community Hospital by Reducing Inpatient Length of Stay and Enhancing Community Services - Susan Engels
Session: 5C2 Mental Health Nursing and Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Evidence Evidence-Informed Practice to Support Healing and Recovery - Victoria Smye
Session: 5D1 Creating Hope by Working Differently - Deborah McInnis
Session: 5D2 Monitoring for Metabolic Problems in Clients with Serious Mental Illness through the use of The Metabolic Health Monitor. - Elizabeth Budd
Session: 6A1 Breaking Down the Barriers One Client at a Time: An Ethical Approach to Challenging and Changing Our System - Anne-Marie Baker Devost
Session: 6A2 Managing Symptoms by Reducing Restraints: Promotion of a Philosophy - Karin Doan
Session: 6B1 Nursing Practice and Continuity of Care for the Dual Diagnosis Population - Gillian May
Session: 6B2 Intimacy in First Episode Psychosis - Graham McLean
Session: 6C1 Practicing What We Preach - Ann Greene
Session: 6C2 Integrating Mental Health Theory & Practice Into a Concept-Based Curriculum - Leigh Blaney
Session: 6D1 The Pre-Admission/Post Discharge Collaborative Care Program - Carolyn Carlisle
Session: 6D2 Coping Through Connections: Adolescents With Mood Disorder - Robert Meadus
Session: 7A1 Meeting Mental Health Service Needs Through Collaborative Partnerships - Marlene Gogal
Session: 7A2 Abuse & Mental Illness: Moving Toward a New Hope for Better Health - Lisebeth Gatkowski
Session: 7B1 “ Fighting Stigma: From Learning to Action” - Cathy Graham
Session: 7B2 Addressing Social Stigma in Early Episode of Psychosis: An Innovative Program Approach - Tara Tourloukis
Session: 7C1 Trauma as a Health Promotion Construct: What is The Role of Critical Incident Stress Management (CSIM) - Leigh Blaney
Session: 7D1 The Lived Experience of Resilience: Promoting Valuable Social Practices - Melanie Nguyen
Session: 7D2 Key Mental Health Issues for Women in the Early Years After Leaving an Abusive Partner: Improving Our Clinical Focus - Marilyn Merritt-Gray

CONFERENCE BROCHURE
2009 Conference Brochure