We hope you enjoy this edition of the CCCN newsletter. (Should the images not appear, please right click to download to view the proper format).

You will find information and links relating to the upcoming CCCN Scientific Sessions, held as part of the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress (Oct 26-28).  Please note RSVP requests for our Pre-Conference Workshops and AGM/35th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday October 26th. 

You will also find a variety of information, including recent CNA releases and information for CCCN members relating to the upcoming federal election.  We encourage you to use the 'forward email" link at the bottom of the email to share this newsletter with your colleagues!

 

Please join us!
Sunday October 26, 16:30-18:30
Ballroom, Hilton Hotel


A  special presentation on Women
and Heart Disease by Bobbe Wood, HSFC- BC will be featured as part of the AGM, and a slice of a cake and a champagne
toast will close this special event. 

www.thehearttruth.ca

CCCN members and non-members are asked to RSVP their planned attendance to tdouris@cccn.ca . 

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Sunday October 26, 9am-12pm
Ballrooms, Hilton Hotel

The workshops are open to all CCC delegates, but you are asked to kindly RSVP to  tdouris@cccn.ca  to have your name added to the attendance list for the workshop of your choice. 

• Workshop 1: Behavioural Change: Making a Difference in CV Risk Factors
• Workshop 2: Cardiac Surgery
• Workshop 3: Acute Coronary Syndromes

More information

In 2006, the Canadian Government allocated two million over two years to support the CHHS-AP.  Much of this important initiative is now complete, but it's release is pendant on a newly elected government.  Joint letters signed by the presidents of CCS, CCCN and CACR  were sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and opposition leaders Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Elizabeth May urging them to keep the Canadian Heart Health Strategy on the forefront during the election and to ensure its active support by the new government.

These letters are linked below and our our web site.  CCCN members and all allied health professionals in the cardiovascular field are encouraged to contact your MP regarding this important issue.

 
Letters sent to :  Prime Minister, Liberal Party, NDP, Green Party

The Canadian Nurses Association is pleased to let you know that the Ethics in Practice paper: Nurses' Ethical Considerations in a Pandemic or Other Emergency is now available in English and French on CNA's website (www.cna-aiic.ca) .

 

On October 8 - the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)'s 100th birthday - CNA will be releasing CNA's Preferred Future: Health for All discussion paper.

The document will be released on-line via a 30-minute webcast panel, followed by an online discussion board where nurses can discuss the document and share their points of view. Nurses will also be invited to submit questions about the discussion paper to CNA.

If you can't join in on October 8, the webcast will be available on the CNA web site after the launch. The forums will be available for up to five weeks. The webcast can be accessed by logging on to www.cna-aiic.ca at 1:00 pm EST on October 8, 2008.

CNA is urging affiliates to link to CNA's 2008 Federal Election Toolkit (http://23072.vws.magma.ca/cna/issues/matters/default_e.aspx). It includes information that supports nurses in addressing health care issues with candidates.

All candidates' platforms, as they relate to health care, will be posted soon on the CNA website. It will help you to articulate health issues, and develop questions for candidates.Within the next week, the Canadian Nurse Journal will include an ad for nurses' involvement in this federal election.

 

The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) is pleased to announce its fourth Research Competition to continue its strategic mandate of increasing the scope and scale of research and evaluatino activities in patient safety.

 
More information or visit www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce the launch of a Request for Applications for Focus on Stroke VIII. Doctoral Research Awards, Research Fellowships, and Research Scholarships are available through this initiative (application deadline October 31, 2008). 
 
 The aim of this year's program is:
 
1.       to build stroke research capacity in the later pillars: clinical, health services/systems, or population health;
 
2.       to support stroke research by health professionals including, but not limited to, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, nutritionists, pathologists, pharmacologists, and medical doctors.
 
For more information on this Request for Applications, please visit:
 
www.hsf.ca/research/images/PDF/fos8%20rfa%20v05.pdf .

 

Sandra Lauck, CCCN Secretary/Treasurer Candidate
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Carol Laberge, CCCN Secretary Treasurer Candidate

 

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