Planning for the 2014 AGM is already starting! If you are interested in attending, keep that in mind and look out for the date and agenda in future communications and on the CTNIG website www.rnao-ctnig.org

I had presented the benefits of Healing Touch to approximately 100 people at the Association of Cancer Executives meeting in New Orleans in January 2011. One of the administrators present at that conference remembered me and felt it important that someone with a knowledge of cancer and complementary therapies (CT) be present for a two day thinktank at Presence Healthcare in Chicago where he was now the CEO. Presence Health has multiple sites where cancer care is delivered. The CEO and his team decided that it was time to revolutionize the way cancer care was done through a process called disruptive innovation. The first day of the event invited members of the staff and guests listened to people who had experienced cancer first hand-patients, survivors, family members from behind two way glass. A common theme in what they felt was that they were missing a sense of holistic care. The following day, we went to another site and brainstormed all day on how the cancer treatment experience could be different based on our knowledge, experience and what we had heard the day before. I shared many ideas about all forms of CT and how they could be incorporated into cancer practice based on my experience and research findings . My ideas were received with enthusiasm.

The team is now in the process of working through HOW they will launch the many parts of the wonderful ideas that were brought to the sessions.

I'm not sure where CT will fit in the new vision but I have been asked to come back again. I have also put the group in touch with CT nurses in the Chicago area.

   

 

Legal Issues in Nursing - From CanLNC Education

CanLNC Education has released a new online course, Legal Issues in Nursing.  This course promotes an understanding of nursing responsibility as a way to improve patient safety.

Learn on your own time, at your own pace, in your own place;  desktop, laptop, iPad or iPhone. To register go to www.CanLNC.ca and click on the Legal Issues in Nursing tab.

CanLNC Education courses can be applied towards the annual continued learning (Quality Assurance, Reflective Learning, Professional Development, Competence Assessment, Practice Review) required by your nursing registration and licensing body.  

If you would like to know more about group pricing, or to request a live presentation call 1 855 278-9273.

Integrating Spirituality and Health Care

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Registration 6:45-7:10pm    

Friends House

60 Lowther Avenue (2 blocks north from the Bedford exit of the St George Subway Stn)

The world within and the world without are sides of the same coin.  Starting in the fifteen hundreds we discovered the machine-like quality of the body that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution and a mechanized world.  Now our machines are capable of looking back at us and we are discovering we are not machines, or even solely biochemical systems.  We are resonating quantum systems.  Part of this discovery is the world of epigenetics allowing us to reprogram our cells not only through biochemistry but through emotion, diet, magnetic fields, and sound.  This Age of Resonance is the foundation for devising new health care systems but it also helps us to reexamine the more ancient healing systems and begin to understand why they were embraced for so long and what they have to offer us.

Elinor Dickson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, analyst, lecturer and workshop leader.  For sixteen years she was Chief of Psychological Services at St. Michael's Hospital.  One of her enduring interests is the return of the World Soul in the individual through dreams and through working with the body but also through the science that once banished Her.  Interest in Her return led to co-authoring a book with Marion Woodman entitled: 

Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness.