tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35240637518201792402024-03-19T01:46:11.065-07:00Health SciencesDean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-35360617102594771242014-02-25T21:13:00.001-08:002014-02-25T21:13:48.790-08:00 A Radical Thought in Dementia Care This is another thought on community. This story outlines a perspective on dementia care where unique communities are built that are for individuals with dementia to live in a way that allows the freedom of community setting with safety. An interesting concept. <br />
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Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com494tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-11470122943007557722013-11-22T11:22:00.000-08:002013-11-22T11:22:34.916-08:00Miles for Mental Health Walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miles for Mental Health Walk/Run was held this past Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following is the speech given by Anna
Helewka to start off the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Helewka, Vicki Shillington and her son Jake, Patricia Juvik, Joan Crisp, Sarah
Mellet, Shana Lund, Maria Bishop and her dog Sadie, Maureen Mackey, Donna Roy, Kathy Potter, and Hazel
Postma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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involvement, along with HR and External Relations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great community involvement !!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Welcome to
3rd-annual Douglas College Miles for Mental Health Walk/Run. This event is
organized by and supports the Simon Fraser branch of the Canadian Mental Health
Association, which serves New Westminster, the Tri-cities, Pitt Meadows and
Maple Ridge. Douglas College is proud to sponsor this event. Today I am here as
part of the Douglas College Dream team. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Our team has dream</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">---that, we will one day live in a
world that is free from the destructive stigma and bias that still exists for
those living with mental health challenges. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">As a young student
nurse I came to understand early the extent of this stigma towards those
suffering mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first
psychiatric patient as a student nurse was a woman who had been a pharmacist
for almost 20 years—she had what was called a nervous breakdown and was
institutionalized and put on some very heavy duty medications with damaging
side effects---when I met her she had been in hospital <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">37 years</i></b>---no one came to
visit her, family and friends abandoned and forgot about her because of the shame----she
was alone in this world except for her co-patients and the hospital staff at
Riverview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">SO</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">, yes we can say we have progressed in decreasing
the stigma towards mental illness from those times—when those with mental
illness were banished to locked institutions BUT we still have a long way to
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Attitudes of stigma
and bias continue to be injurious to those experiencing mental health
challenges but these attitudes are also detrimental to all of us individually
and to who we are as a larger society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I ask the
question---how can a society that has come so far in so many arenas, continue
to engage in, accept and sometimes promote such damaging attitudes? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A favorite quote of mine that illustrates this
is from past US President Bill Clinton: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Mental
health is nothing to be ashamed of but stigma and bias shame us all.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Some things to think about as we
walk/run today</span></u></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">A fifth of Canadians will develop mental illness at
some point in their lives, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that many Canadians will be
affected not only directly but indirectly by mental illness, because their
friends, family or neighbours will develop a mental illness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Mental illness affects people of all ages,
cultures, education and income levels</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Labels of mental illness do not define the
person---no more so than a label such as Diabetes defines the person—there is
so much more to the individual than the label ‘assigned’ to them. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stigma or bias results in a decreased sense of self.
The individual begins to believe they ARE worthless because of how they are
treated. </span></div>
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to hide and not seek treatment resulting in unnecessary suffering, alienation, pain
and often very real feelings of terror so that they choose to escape the pain
through suicide. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Stigma is responsible for many of the barriers that
those with mental illness face in communities, hospitals, workplaces etc. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Aside from accidents and injuries, mental illness
in youth accounts for the second highest reason for hospitalization<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">As we run or walk
today on this beautiful trail, let’s all think about how we can as a community
and individually raise awareness of and conquer the attitudes of stigma that
continue to exist around mental illness. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Let us make a
pledge</span></i></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">
to go further than our 2.5 Km walk or 5 Km run today ….lets strive to advocate
and educate for a change in societal attitudes on a daily basis with everyone
we meet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">LETS WORK TOWARDS A WORLD THAT IS FOCUSED ON MENTAL
HEALTH FOR ALL</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Anna Helewka,
Program Coordinator, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Douglas College Faculty
of Health Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com257tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-59746322861532986582013-11-06T14:51:00.000-08:002013-11-06T14:51:04.942-08:00Education Without Borders 2013 VideoAt long last I am happy to present our video about our Education Without Border Experience 2013. I am hopeful that we will be sending students and faculty to this conference in Dubai in 2015. The 3 students and two faculty members that went were inspiring and inspired.......hope that you consider this opportunity when the opportunity presents................<br />
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Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com405tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-89736882678106805782013-11-06T06:18:00.000-08:002013-11-06T06:18:58.033-08:00Stepping on Cancer - Stair Climb Fundraiser<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}" style="color: black; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">
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Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com298tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-62216442349824833192013-10-31T13:44:00.000-07:002013-10-31T13:44:46.987-07:00New Medication Administration in Nursing Practice Module from CRNBC<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The module provides flexible, self-directed opportunities to
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thinking framework that stimulate reflection and explore the support and
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Please note that Douglas College Health Scienes is forwarding this information for consideration. Health Sciences at Douglas College is not in affiliation with this group, but recognizes the information may be of some interests to students and faculty. <br />
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Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-48828911860396574082013-10-27T18:54:00.001-07:002013-10-27T18:54:25.567-07:00<strong><u>Innovation Award - Health Science Students - Westwood Cycle</u></strong><br />
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In 2014, two new student awards will be presented. These awards sponsored by Westwood Cycle will be presented to two Douglas College Health Sciences Students. <br />
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The awards will be given to two student who present projects that clearly link the benefits of exercise and health. Projects fitting this criteria are eligible for two awards: <br />
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$ 500.00<br />
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Awards will be presented as cash to the student(s). Projects may be individual or group projects with the award being divided amongst the group members. <br />
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The primary emphasis of the project is as noted above, the link between exercise and health. Preference will be given to projects that are implemented in practice, with additional consideration given to projects that demonstrate sustainability and/or a direct link to the Tri-Cities Community. <br />
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Awards are self nominated and are to be submitted by the students initiating the project. Project packages will be available by December 2013. Each project will be required to: <br />
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1. Identify individual or group members (must be a student in good standing in a Health Sciences program).<br />
2. Provide a brief description of the project<br />
3. Identify community or group served by project<br />
4. Identify project budget<br />
5. Identify goal of project<br />
6. Identify implementation plan and/or implementation methods if project delivered<br />
7. Identify evaluation methods for project or evaluation summary if project delivered<br />
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Students are to discuss project with their Program Coordinator or Director prior to implementation If project requires Review by the Ethics Board of Douglas College please ensure that this is completed prior to project implementation. <br />
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Deadline date for projects is May 2014. The awards committe will evaluate and decide on all projects in June 2014, with award presentation occurring in June of 2014. <br />
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If you have any questions please contact <a href="mailto:cawleyp@douglascollege.ca">cawleyp@douglascollege.ca</a> <br />
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Dean Health Scienceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14010225149148195284noreply@blogger.com447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524063751820179240.post-83751073871792524722013-10-25T16:03:00.001-07:002013-10-27T18:35:00.112-07:00Welcome to the Douglas College Health Sciences Blog - for Health Sciences students, faculty and staffThe Health Sciences faculty at Douglas College is committed to current and ongoing excellence in all that we do. To that end we recognise that one area we need to continue to enhance, in particular, for our students is timely and effective communication about education and health matters. <br />
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This blog is intended to be the place to go on a regular basis to find out what's new and more importantly what is new and relevant for Health Sciences students and faculty. It is also a place to share student accomplishments and initiatives. <br />
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Blackboard will continue to be the medium of sending out program and course related information for programs. This blog will send out information such as: <br />
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Student Employment/Volunteer Opportunities<br />
Student Awards<br />
Articles of interest to student, faculty, and staff<br />
Student accomplishments (awards, projects, and initiatives)<br />
Faculty awards, profiles, projects etc. of interest<br />
Speakers Series information<br />
Continuing Education Offerrings <br />
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A comments section is available for discussion and questions, and the blog will be checked on a regular basis. Please note though that if your question is program related that your communication source remains your program. <br />
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If you have an item you would like to contribute directly to the blog, then please send the information to <a href="mailto:dcdeansbloghs@gmail.com">dcdeansbloghs@gmail.com</a><br />
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