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Annual General Meeting and Biennial Convention
Canadian Nurses Association
World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
June 16 - 19, 1996
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At the 1996 CNA Biennial convention, you will:
Learn about:
the trends and critical issues that challenges nursing today; changes
in health care policy and delivery - and the implications for nursing
and client care; the role nurses could be playing the future; and the
future of CAN itself.
Learn how to:
take charge of your career; market yourself; develop your leadership
skills; deal with the chaos and the cutbacks; and make a difference in
the midst of reform, shrinking budgets, constant change, and stress.
Find out:
why it's important to ask a nurse (hint: try attending the role-play
plenary session the morning of 18 June).
Connect with:
others who share your concerns and special interests; people who could
help you in your career path, and nurses who have made a difference.
Through the Drop in and Dialogue sessions and other great
networking opportunities.
Deadline for early registration is May 3, 1996. For more
information and/or a registration form, please contact:
Pat Mohr, Conference Coordinator
50 Driveway, Ottawa ON K2P 1E2
Tel: (613) 237-2133 or 1-800-361-8404
Fax: (613) 237-3520 Internet: [log in to unmask]
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Assemblee generale annuelle et congres biennal Association des
infirmieres et infirmiers du Canada, World Trade and Convention
Centre,
Halifax (Nouvelle-Ecosse) du 16 au 19 juin 1996
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Au congres biennal de 1996:
vous en saurez davantage sur:
les tendances et les grands problemes qui touchent la profession
infirmiere aujourd'hui; l'evolution de la politique sanitaire et des
modes de prestation - ainsi que ses consequences pour la profession
infirmiere et les soins aux clients; le role que les infirmieres
pourraient jouer dans l'avenir; et l'avenir de l'AIIC meme.
Vous apprendrez comment:
prendre en charge votre carriere; vous vendre; developper vos facultes
de leadership; resister au chaos et aux compressions; et faire toute
la
differenece en depit de la reforme, de budgets reduits, de mutations
constantes et du stress.
Vous decouvrirez:
pourquoi il est important de demander a une infirmiere (consiel:
essayez dassister au jeu de roles pendant la seance pleniere le
matin du 18 juin).
Vous rencontrerez:
d'autres personnes ayant le memes preoccupations et interets
particuliers;
des gens qui pourraient vous aider dans votre carriere; et des
infirmieres
qui ont deja fait toute la difference.
Pendant les causeries improvisees et a d'autres occasions fort
interessantes.
Vous pourrez economiser si vous vous inscrivez avant le 3 mai. Pour
plus de renseignements, communiquer avec:
Patricia Mohr, coordonnatrice de conferences de l'AIIC
50 Driveway, Ottawa ON K2P 1E2
Tel: (613) 237-2133 ou 1-800-361-8404
Telec: (613) 237-3520 Internet: [log in to unmask]
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University of Ottawa Centre for International Health and Development
(CIHAD) Seminars on Health and Development Issues
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All Welcome at 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mondays in Room 1510 Portable
451B University of Ottawa, Health Sciences Building, Smyth Road.
March 18
Speaker: Peter Dalglish, Your Service Canada
Topic: Access to Health Care in Developing Countries
March 25
Speaker: Judith Sullivan, Manager, International Affairs
Canadian Nurses Association
Topic: Strengthening the Key Human Resource Base for Primary Health
Care in Developing Countries.
April 1
Speaker: Dr. Christine Mills, LCDC
Topic: Cancer Screening in Latin America
April 15
Speaker: Don De Savigny, IDRC
Topic: Changing Prospects for Malaria Control in Africa
April 22
Speaker: Dr. Christine Whalen. LCDC
Topic: TB - International Initiatives
April 29
Speaker: Jacques Berard, CIET Canada
Topic: Surveillance & Transition Health
For more information regarding any of the above sessions, please
contact:
Don & Liz Hillman, Centre for International Health and Development
Tel: (613) 737-8250
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Conferences & Symposia - 1996
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Date: May 3-5
Conference: 9th International Symposium: Low Back Pain in Primary
Care:
Moving Towards Evidence-Based Practice
Sponsors: Physical Medicine Research Foundation, Tel: (604) 684-4148,
Fax: (604) 684-6247, E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: May 11-19
Conference: Toward an Electronic Patient Record '96
Sponsors: Medical Records Institute, Tel: (416) 964-3923, Fax: (617)
964-3926
Location: San Diego, CA
Date: May 16-17
Conference: Designing and Implementing Economic Evaluations in Health
Care
Sponsors: Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster, E-Mail:
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Location: Hamilton, ON
Date: May 19-23
Conference: Quality & Inequality: What Care, Whose Costs, Whither
Health
Sponsors: International Health Economics Association, Tel: (604)
681-2153, Fax: (604) 681-1049
Location: Vancouver, BC
Date: May 26 - June 7
Conference: The Canadian Health Care System: An international
conference
Sponsors: BC Health Industry Development Office, Tel: (604) 370-8691,
Fax: (604) 370-8750, email: [log in to unmask]
Location: Whistler, BC
Date: June 2-5
Conference: Health, A Community Challenge: Joint National Conference
and Exhibition
Sponsors: CHA & CCHSE, Tel: (613) 241-8005, Fax: (613) 241-5055
Location: Hull, QC
Date: 9-12
Conference: 4th Canadian Conference on Health Promotion: Health
Promotion & Population Health: A Meeting of Ideals
Sponsors: Montreal Health Promotion Research Centre, GRIS & the
Montreal Public Health Directorate
GRIS - Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville,
Montreal, QC H3C 3J7
Location: Montreal, QC
Date: June 13-15
Conference: Teaching to Promote Women's Health
Sponsors: Women's College Hospital, Tel: (416) 862-9067, Fax: (416)
862-2238
Location: Toronto, ON
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