Mental Health Nursing Interest Group Annual General Meeting 2022

Three Educational Sessions:

1. Anti-Human Trafficking by: Kelly Tallon, Founder and Chief Executive Director of Courage for Freedom

With Introduction from Racheal Radyk, Indigenous Nurses and Allies Interest Group Chair
Brief Objectives:

• Create specific modules for nurses who have some trauma-informed care experience and doctors also.
• Potential presentations and triggers in your care. 
• Entrenched behaviors and how they can affect the capacity to communicate and professionals understanding of patients, information
• Safety for both patients and staff with respect to secondary persons and activities
• Protocols and procedures that may cause difficulty in system navigation for victims/survivors.
• Difference between support for domestic or partner violence victims and sex trafficking and sexual exploitation victims
• Making sense of what you are seeing, hearing, and sensing without giving you more work to do

2. Nurses and Forensic Psychiatric Review Board Hearings by: Jean-Laurent Domingue 
Objectives:

• Review the functioning of the forensic psychiatric system, particularly how Review Board hearings operate.
•  Understand and problematize the role of nurses in Review Board hearing processes
• Discuss the implications of the study’s results for the practice of nurses

3. Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Building Resiliency by: Mary-Lou Martin
Objectives:

• Describe stress, compassion fatigue and its relevance to resiliency.
• Describe the key components and process of building and fostering resiliency.
• Reflect on your own abilities, values and beliefs about the connection between resilience and well-being.
• Describe evidence-based ways to support resilience in yourself and other nurses in creating a healthy work culture.