Open Forum for the CNA Emerging Group CFPN: Canadian Family Practice Nurses

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Open Forum for the CNA Emerging Group CFPN
Canadian Family Practice Nurses

• Friday, June 6, 2008

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AGENDA

• An overview of progress since 2006 to date
• CNA and Emerging group status
• Naming this Association
• Our Executive

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Family Practice Nurses at Work
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Next steps decided on in 2006

• Increasing our profile
• The drafting of a CFPC policy statement
• The drafting of a paper describing the role of FP
  nurses building on the work done in Halifax.
• Contact the CNA
• Encourage FP nurses across Canada to join the
  Ontario Association as a way to begin to develop
  a network of FPNs across the country
• Explore opportunities within FMF 2007 for FP
  nurses to participate.

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We met our goals and more

• June 2006 OFPN Conference meeting and open forum
  with Dr Louise Nasmith CFPC
• Sept 2006 President message Dr Nasmith article
• Oct 2006 Teleconference with CFPC
• Hon. Carolyn Bennett (St. Paul's, Lib.)gt C.N.A.
• Winnipeg conference Carol Todd and Ann Alsaffar
  co presented with the CFPC a collaborative care
  workshop
• Organized the Booth at the Family Medicine Forum
  ASA Winnipeg Oct 2007
• Vision Statement CFPC and the C.N.A.

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The CFPC and CNA Vision Statement onInter -
Professional Care

• (i) All people in Canada will have access to a
  family practice/primary care
• setting that offers each person the opportunity
  to have his/her care provided
• by each of the following
• A personal family doctor and
• A registered nurse and/or a nurse practitioner

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Our Vision Statement

• To be nationally recognized as nurses committed
  to excellence valuing quality outcomes,
  professionalism, collaborative practice and a
  patient/family centered approach to care from
  birth to end of life.
• To promote and support family practice/primary
  health care nursing as an inspired profession of
  a lifetime.

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• May 26, 2008
• Ann Alsaffar
• President
• Canadian Family Practice Nurses
• 302 168 Carlotte St.
• Ottawa ON K1N 8K6
• Dear Ann Alsaffar
• I am pleased to inform you, that based on our
  recent review of the application
• form and documents you have submitted, we have
  determined that the
• Canadian Family Practice Nurses (CFPN) meets the
  criteria for first-year
• financial assistance as an Emerging Member group.
  Therefore, a cheque for
• 500 for this purpose will be mailed shortly. In
  return, the Canadian Nurses
• Association (CNA) would appreciate receiving an
  updated report of your
• groups activities within one year (including
  Bylaws).
• On behalf of the CNA Board of Directors and
  staff, I wish to extend our best
• wishes to you and the members of your Executive
  Committee for success
• in all your planned activities.

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C.N.A. ListServ

• family_practice_at_lists.cna-nurses.ca

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Family Practice Nurse certificate

• I am in the process of pulling together the
  Program Advisory Committee (PAC) for the Family
  Practice Nurse certificate.
• Currently the membership is as follows 
• Dr. James Meuser
• Ms. Judie Surridge
• Ms Judith Manson
• Ms. Jan Kasperski
• Dr. Ivy Oandasan
• Ms Ann Alsaffar
• Patsy Smith 
• Dr. Cory Ross, Associate Dean, IPE
• Gay Kapelus, Faculty IPE Geoerge Brown College
• Dianne Diniz, Acting Director, Centre for Health
  ciences
• Connie Barbour, Faculty, Lead Year 2, BScN
  program
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• Curriculum Development Team
• Julie Gaudet, Faculty, Lead of Team
• Christine Houston, Faculty
• Iris Epstein, Faculty 
• Joy Garmaise, Faculty

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Publications

• Perceptions of the nurse role in an
  interprofessional family practice setting The
  importance of role understanding and
  trustworthiness.
• Jen Akeroyd Ann Alsaffar Ivy Oandasan , Lorelei
  Lingard, Cynthia Whitehead
• Ottawa Life Magazine June 2008
• Ann Alsaffar and Patsy Smith

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What is an Associate Member?

• An associate member of CNA is
• any group constituted in Canada which has a
  majority of regulated nursing personnel and whose
  application for membership has been approved by
  the Board of Directors.

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Budget

• Expenses 2008-2009
• Teleconferences 200
• Marketing 150
• Stationary 50
• Postage 50
• Long Distance Calls 50
• Sub-Total 500
• Revenue   CNA Emerging group fund 500
• Sub-Total 500
• Variance  0

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Terms of Reference for an Associate Member

• a) The majority of regular membership in the
  associate member consists of registered nurses
  who meet the group's membership criteria and
  there are members in at least four
  provinces/territories.
• b) More than fifty percent of registered nurses
  of the group are CNA members.

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Terms of Reference for an Associate Member

• c) The Constitution and Bylaws have been adopted
  by members of the group and the objects are
  compatible with CNA's corporate objects.
• d) The group's constitution and bylaws have
  provision for the election of officers and
  independent policy-making power.
• An associate member shall assume such obligations
  and be accorded such privileges as may, from time
  to time, be established by the Board of Directors
  of CNA.

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Family Practice Nurses at Work
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Who are we?

• Canadian Family Practice Nurses CFPN
• National Nurses in Family Practice NNFP
• National Family Practice/Primary Health Care
  Nurses NFPHCN
• Canadian Nurses in Family Practice CNFP
• Canadian Association of Family Practice
  Nurses CAFPN

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Executive

• President
• Vice president
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Membership
• Public relations political action

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