Vancouver: Howe st and Pender st.
Plenary speakers for the 5th World Congress include; Kim Barthel - Speaking on “The Neurobiology of Connections”; Michael Howlett, President of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Phil Woods from the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan; and Anna Helewka reflecting on Mental Health Promotion — Shifting Landscapes: From Local Stage to World Arena.
Thirty concurrent sessionswill feature a wide variety of topics and formats that will be of interest to all, while a variety of poster presentations and exhibits will provide visual illustrations of research or practice findings with presenters available to answer questions throughout the congress.
A special theatrical performance of a one-woman show by Elly Litvak entitled, ‘Who’s Crazy Now?’ will provide poignant and humorous insight into what it’s like to live with, and recover from mental illness.
Conference Day 1 - March 18, 2010
1300 RPN Educators Meeting (by invitation)
1730 Open Reception (no host bar)
Conference Day 2 - March 19, 2010
0800 Registration
0900 Official Opening – Ross Stewart, President, Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Canada
0930 Plenary – Dr. Phil Woods: Research Partnerships: Do we want them? Do we need them?
1015 BREAK - Posters and Exibits
1045 Concurrent Sessions “A”
1145 LUNCH - Presentation - Laura Panteluk:
New and Revised!!! National Standards and Code of Ethics for RPNs in Canada
and The John Alex Crawford Scholarship: A New Scholarship to Support Graduate Education in Psychiatric Nursing
1300 Plenary – Michael Howlett - An Update on the Mental Health Commission of Canada
1400 BREAK - Posters and Exibits
1430 Concurrent Sessions “B”
1530 Concurrent Sessions “C”
1630 Poster Displays & Exhibits
2000 Theatrical Performance by Elly Litvak, “Now, Who’s Crazy Now?”
Conference Day 3 - March 20, 2010
0800 Registration
0845 Welcome and announcements
0900 Plenary – Anna Helewka: Mental Health Promotion — Shifting Landscapes:From Local Stage to World Arena
1015 BREAK - Welcome
Manitoba 2013
1045 Concurrent Sessions “D”
1145 RPNC Awards Luncheon
1315 Plenary – Kimberly Barthel: The Neurobiology of Connections
1400 BREAK - Posters and Exibits
1430 Concurrent Sessions “E”
1530 Concurrent Sessions “F”
1630 Thank you and Adjournment
Concurrent Sessions - March 19, 2010
1045 Concurrent Sessions - A
1. Lessons Learned: Online & Distance Delivery of Post-Basic Psychiatric/Mental Health
Nursing Courses
2. Bob: A Tale of a Journey Through Adversity to Independence
3. “We’re all in this together.” Using Feminist Participatory Action Research with Rural Family
Therapy Colleagues
4. Why Collaborate? Collaborative Success Stories from the DD (Developmentally Delayed) World
5. Help for Our Heroes: Recognizing the Psychological Wounds of Military and Police Service
6. MYSPACE, FACEBOOK & BLOGS -- Implications for Professional Practice: Avoiding the Collision Between Your Personal and Professional Life
7. “You’re asking me to testify?” Responding to quality assurance investigations, professional practice complaints, coroner inquiries, subpoenas, court and tribunal proceedings
8. Recruitment and Retention of Psychiatric Nursing Faculty in Canada
9. Physical Health of Residents in Psychiatric Institutions
10. A Need to Know: Early Intervention in Mental Health and Addictions
11. Developing Self-awareness Through the Use of the Six Word Memoir
12. Cultural Competency in Psychiatric Nursing
13. The Lived Experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
14. Health Human Resource Highlights in Canadian Registered Psychiatric Nursing: Workforce, Supply, Demographics, Education and Mobility of RPNs in 2008
15. Shaping Evidence Based Practices to Accommodate the Needs of Clients Within Your Working Area: Emphasizing the Role of Community Validity
Concurrent Sessions - March 20, 2010
1045 Concurrent Sessions - D
16. A Model for Facilitation of Wholeness of Therapists Experiencing Personal Disintegration Due to Secondary Traumatisation in a Specific Private Psychiatric Clinic in South Africa
17. Psychiatric Nursing Research
18. My son is really sick, what do you mean he is going out on a pass? The Role of the Psychiatric Nurse in the Process of Providing Passes to Clients on Acute Adult Psychiatric Units
19. The Importance of Structured Risk Assessment in Psychiatric Nursing Practice: The S.T.A.R.T. (Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability)
20. Connections and Disconnections in Alcohol Treatment for Women with PTSD and a History of Intimate Partner Violence
21. Stigma and Psychiatric Recidivism on the Journey to Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives
22. Identity Commitment and Psychosis: A Grounded Theory Study
23. Treatment of Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder in Rural Communities in B.C., Canada
24. Improving Relationships with Child Protection Services to Create Better Outcomes for Clients with Mental Illness and Their Families: A Project in Melbourne Australia
25. Family Social Support: Lessons Learned from Practice
26. Stigma and Psychiatric Recidivism on the Journey to Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives
(continued from Session 21)
27. RPNs Working to Meet the Needs of Immigrants and Refugees in Rural Areas
28. Evaluating an Emergent Best Practice to Prevent Discharge from Psychiatric Ward to Homelessness
29. Communication in Psychiatric Nursing: Where are we now?
30. “Using Coaching to Enhance Communication Practices and Build a Culture of Patient Safety”
Plenary Sessions
March 19 - Morning -
Research Partnerships: Do we want them? Do we need them?
This plenary will take a look at the trials and tribulations of research partnerships: locally, nationally and internationally. During the presentation the pros and cons of these will be examined to try and answer the questions: Do we want them? Do we need them?
Phil Woods, RPN, RMN, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Innovation, and Global Initiatives
College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
March 19 - Afternoon - An Update on the Mental Health Commission of Canada
The Mental Health Commission of Canada is a non-profit organization created to focus national attention on mental health issues and to work to improve the health and social outcomes of people living with mental illness. The Commission, while funded by the Government of Canada, is a national body, not a federal one. It has been endorsed by all levels of government, although the Commission operates at arm’s length from them. The Commission is currently working on five key initiatives:
1) A mental health strategy;
2) An anti-stigma campaign;
3) Homelessness research demonstration projects;
4) A knowledge exchange centre;
5) The Partners for Mental Health Program.
As a follow up to a presentation given at the 2008 World Congress for Psychiatric Nurses in Regina, Saskatchewan, Michael Howlett, President of the Mental Health Commission of Canada will provide an update on the accomplishments of the Commission to date, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
Michael Howlett, President of the Mental Health
Commission of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
March 20 - Morning - Mental Health Promotion — Shifting Landscapes: From Local Stage to World Arena
Mental health is critical to the well being of individuals, societies and countries. However, current global trends have created a world that is experiencing an explosion of stress-related mental health problems.
Psychiatric nurses can play a significant role in promoting mental health at a global level but this requires a paradigmatic shift from local contexts to the larger world perspective. A shift of this nature will require courage, tenacity and commitment—the courage to step out of our professional comfort zones, the tenacity to remain true to our professional ideals and a commitment to excellence in psychiatric nursing care—all of which can be enhanced through global professional collegiality and partnerships. In this way, psychiatric nurses will be able to influence what is played out on the world stage of mental health.
Anna Helewka, RPN, RN, BSN, MSN
Faculty and Curriculum Coordinator, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Douglas College, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
March 20 - Afternoon - The Neurobiology of Connections
The expanding frontier of neurobiological research is providing mounting evidence of the value of “therapeutic alliance” as a variable changing brain-behavior functions. This session will explore the 2010 research emphasizing the neurobiology of relationship in the context of therapy.
Kim Barthel, BMR, OTR
Principal, Labyrinth Journeys, Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
Concurrent Sessions
1. Lessons Learned: Online & Distance Delivery of Post-Basic Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Courses
Maureen A Mackey, RPN, RN, BSN, MDE (Candidate), Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Douglas College, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
2. Bob: A Tale of a Journey Through Adversity to Independence
Ross A Stewart, RPN, RN, MHSc, Executive Director, Marineview Housing Society, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3. “We’re all in this together.” Using Feminist Participatory Action Research with Rural Family Therapy Colleagues
Annette M Woodhouse, RPN, MFT, PhD (Candidate), Lecturer, Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; and Private Practice Family Therapist, Gilead Downs Family Therapy Centre, Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
4. Why Collaborate? Collaborative Success Stories from the DD (Developmentally Delayed) World
Linda D Moyneur, RPN, RN, BPN, Director, Provincial Assessment Centre, Community Living BC
Brenda Walker, RPN, Outreach Nurse, Provincial Assessment Centre, Community Living BC
Amtul Humayun, RPN, Team Coordinator, Vancouver Coastal Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services, Burnaby, British Columbia
Tina Donnelly, RPN, BHSc, Manager, Fraser Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
5. Help for Our Heroes: Recognizing the Psychological Wounds of Military and Police Service
Laura L Caron, BSN, RPN, Nurse Clinician, Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Carewest/Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6. MYSPACE, FACEBOOK & BLOGS -- Implications for Professional Practice: Avoiding the Collision Between Your Personal and Professional Life
Laura Panteluk, RPN, BSPN, Practice Consultant/Deputy Registrar, College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba
Jennifer Adair, RPN, BScPN, Registered Psychiatric Nurse, St. Boniface Hospital
Pamela Kachur, RPN, BScPN, BA, Registered Psychiatric Nurse, St. Boniface Hospital,
Larissa Medwid, RPN, BScPN, Registered Psychiatric Nurse,
PsycHealth Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
7. “You’re asking me to testify?”
Responding to quality assurance investigations, professional practice complaints, coroner inquiries, subpoenas, court and tribunal proceedings.
Grant Warrington RPN,BA, LLB, MA, (Conflict Analysis) CRM
8. Recruitment and Retention of Psychiatric Nursing Faculty in Canada
Karen Doty-Sweetnam, RPN MEd, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Brandon University
D. Noreen Ek, PhD, Department Chair/Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
9. Physical Health of Residents in Psychiatric Institutions
Peter Hjorth, Nurse, Master of Public Health, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital, Unit for Psychiatric Research, Aalborg Denmark
10. A Need to Know: Early Intervention in Mental Health and Addictions
Linda G. Wowk, RPN, Clinical Nurse Educator, Youth and Young Adult Mental Health and Addictions, Fraser South Early Intervention Project, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
11. Developing Self-awareness Through the Use of the Six Word Memoir
Kathryn E White, RPN, BV/Ted, MV/Ted, Faculty, Psychiatric Nursing Program, Saskatchewan Institute of Technology
Carol Hipfner, RPN, AdvPsychNurs, BHS (Psych Nursing), CV/TEd, MHS, Faculty, Psychiatric Nursing Program, Saskatchewan Institute of Technology, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
12. Cultural Competency in Psychiatric Nursing
Melodie B Hull, RPN, MSC, MED, BA, PID, TESOL,
Nursing Faculty, Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program, College of the Rockies, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
13. The Lived Experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Mary Haase, RPN, RN, BScN, PhD, Instructor, Department of Nursing, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
14. Health Human Resource Highlights in Canadian Registered Psychiatric Nursing: an investigation of the Workforce, Supply, Demographics, Education and Mobility of RPNs in 2008
Robert Pelletier, Program Lead, Health Human Resources, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
15. Shaping Evidence Based Practices to Accommodate the Needs of Clients Within Your Working Area: Emphasizing the Role of Community Validity
Keira Stockdale, PhD, Psychologist, Mental Health and Addictions Services
Garry P Perry, MA, Manager, Young Offender Program, Mental Health and Addictions Services, Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
16. A Model for Facilitation of Wholeness of Therapists Experiencing Personal Disintegration Due to Secondary Traumatisation in a Specific Private Psychiatric Clinic in South Africa
Magdalena J Theron, RPN, RN, MCur, DCur, Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, Fraser Health Authority, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
17. Psychiatric Nursing Research
Melodie B Hull, RPN, MSC, MED, BA, PID, TESOL, Nursing Faculty, Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program, College of the Rockies, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
18. My son is really sick, what do you mean he is going out on a pass? The Role of the Psychiatric Nurse in the Process of Providing Passes to Clients on Acute Adult Psychiatric Units
Ryan J Shymko RPN, BA, Clinical Teacher, Mental Health Program, Grace Hospital
Isabelle Jarrin, RPN, BScPN, BA, Educator, Mental Health Program, Health Sciences Centre
Linda Fey, PEN, BA, Educator, Mental Health Program, Victoria General Hospital
Anne-Marie Brown, RN, BScN, MN (student), Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mental Health Program, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
19. The Importance of Structured Risk Assessment in Psychiatric Nursing Practice: The S.T.A.R.T. (Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability)
Sharon McNulty, RPN, BA, Nursing Professional Practice Leader, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services
Sarah L. Desmarais, PhD, Junior Research Scientist, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, Port Coquitlam; Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Population and Public Health and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
20. Connections and Disconnections in Alcohol Treatment for Women with PTSD and a History of Intimate Partner Violence
Deanna L Mulvihill, RN, PhD, Director, Nursing & Professional Practice, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, Coquitlam, British Columbia
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, RN, PhD, Professor, Arthur Labatt School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
21 & 26. Stigma and Psychiatric Recidivism on the Journey to Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives
Carlyle O London, RMN, RPN, CMHN, BSc (Hons), MSc, PgCertEd, Senior Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, United Kingdom; and Lead Nurse, Education and Training, West London Mental Health NHS Trust
Tennyson Mgutshini, RN, Dip (HE), BSc (Hons), MSc, Pg(Dip) Ed, PhD, Associate Professor of Nursing, Indiana State University, Indiana, United States of America
22. Identity Commitment and Psychosis: A Grounded Theory Study
Mark Philbin, RPN, PhD, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
23. Treatment of Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder in Rural Communities in B.C., Canada
Maxine P Adshead, RPN, RN (Retired), Former ASTAT Team Member, Cranbrook Mental Health, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
24. Improving Relationships with Child Protection Services to Create Better Outcomes for Clients with Mental Illness and Their Families: A Project in Melbourne Australia
Stephen Cochrane, RPN, Shift Leader, Psychiatry Acute, Peninsula Health Network, Melbourne, Australia
25. Family Social Support: Lessons Learned from Practice
Erasmia Grillakis, RN, BScN, Nurse Clinician; and Monica Arnaldi, PCC, Psychiatric Care Councellor, Child Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis- Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada
26 & 21. Stigma and Psychiatric Recidivism on the Journey to Recovery: Service Users’ Perspectives
(continued from Session 21)
27. RPNs Working to Meet the Needs of Immigrants and Refugees in Rural Areas
Katherine S Pachkowski, RPN, BScPN, Instructional Associate, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Brandon University
Renee Robinson, RPN, BScMH, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
28. Evaluating an Emergent Best Practice to Prevent Discharge from Psychiatric Ward to Homelessness
Cheryl Forchuk, RN, PhD, Professor/Scientist, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario / Lawson Health Research Institute
Rebecca Vann, MSW, RSW, School of Social Work, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario
Elizabeth Wilura, BA, Canadian Mental Health Association, London, Ontario
Jeffrey Hoch, BA, MA, PhD, Health Economist and Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
Mo Jeng, PhD, Social Research and Planning, Department
of Community Services, City of London, Ontario
Shani Kingston-MacClure, MSW, RSW, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario
Elsabeth Jensen, RN, PhD, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29. Communication in Psychiatric Nursing: Where are we now?
Briar A Schulz, RN, BSN, RCC, MA, PhD (Candidate), Instructor, Psychiatric Nursing Program, Douglas College
Yvonne Savard, RPN, RN, MEd, Instructor and Facilitator, Psychiatric Nursing Program, Douglas College, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
30. “Using Coaching to Enhance Communication Practices and Build a Culture of Patient Safety”
Teresa R. Belluz, RPN, MA, CEC, Quality and Patient
Safety Leader, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services
Riola Crawford, RPN, Professional Practice Leader, Riverview Hopsital, BC Mental Health & Addiction
Services, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
1. How to Reduce Disparities by the Use of Psychiatric and Psychological Reflection with Patients?
Emilia Virginia Rodriguez-Rico, Juan Pablo Neumaier Castillo
2. Rebonding of the Body
Deanna L Mulvihill
3. Developing Self-awareness Through the Use of the Six Word Memoir
Kathryn E White
4. Registered Psychiatric Nurses Generational Differences
Sarah A Wibberley
5. The Resilient Clinician: Strategies for Preventing Clinician Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Tony Dugbartey
6. The Therapeutic Alliance Between Eating Disorders Patients and Their Nurses: A Mixed Method Study
Kirsti Weekes
7. Taking Wellness to Heart! Fraser Health Mental Health & Addiction’s Metabolic Monitoring Initiative
Jennifer Blatchford, David Chan
8. Connecting with Hope’: A Nursing Care Plan for Suicidal Persons
Petrea Taylor
9. SCY (Smoking Cessation in Youth) Project
Anna Jajic
10. Metabolic Syndrome and Nursing Practice
Helene H Clavet
11. Improving Insight in Patients with Schizophrenia with a New Method Guided Self-Determination
Rikke Jorgensen
12. Sociocultural Tools in a Psychiatric Nursing Program
Caroline L Hunt, Marlene Graveson, Sarah Mellett
13. Work-Ordered Day of the Clubhouse Model Program in Hong Kong: Clients’ Perception
Ka Fai Wong
14. An Appreciative Inquiry of the Theraputic Nurse-Patient Relationship in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital
Deborah J Kinvig
15. Effectiveness of an Information Booklet on Knowledge and Opinion Among Care Givers of Children
with Autism Mannangatti Vijayarani
16. Innovative Curricula: Meeting the Challenges of Mental Health, Well Being and Service Delivery Within
the Framework of Cultural Diversification in Canada
Gamini R Randeni, Keith Best ,Jean Nicolson-Church
17. RAGE: An Effective Clinical Tool for Identifying and Tracking Patient Aggression and Violence
in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
Marilyn Ibraheem, Richard Sanassy
18. Opening the Doors: Incorporating a Recovery-Oriented Approach on a Locked Psychiatric Unit
Tina L Curtis, Deb Melanson
19. Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Programme on the Knowledge About Treatment Adherence
in Clients with Alcohol Dependence
Thamil Selvi Dharmen, Lalitha Krishnasam, Muralidharan Kesavan
20. Family Social Support: Lessons Learned from Practice
Erasmia Grillakis, Monica Arnaldi
