Provincial Council meetings Any registered fester is welcome to attend Provincial Council meetings at the AARN Provincial Office in Edmonton.

Provincial Council meetings

Any registered fester is welcome to attend Provincial Council meetings at the AARN Provincial Office in Edmonton. Contact your district office for more information in succession attending as an observer, or Heidi Lafreniere, Provincial Office, 1-800-252-9392 for more information in succession the meeting schedule.

The following are the remaining Provincial Council meeting dates for 1999:

* June 2 3 & 41999

* Dec 2 & 3 1999

* generation 22, 23 & 24, 1999

AARN annual report available

The Alberta Association of Registered feed at the breasts annual report for Oct. 1 1997 to clan 30, 1998 is now available for distribution to members. AARN members can desire a copy of the annual report by dint of calling 1-800-252-9392, 453-0525, or e-mail: htopliss@nurses.ab.ca. The AARN annual report is also available on visiting the AARN website at www.nurses.ab.ca.

Area digest correction

Many telephone area digests for southern Alberta were incorrectly changed to exhibit to 780 in the March/April 1999 issue of Alberta RiV. This error affected many sections of the publication including Reunions, District of recent origins Notice Board and some of our advertisers. We apologize for this unfortunate error and repentance any inconvenience it may have caused.

AARN hires recent executive director

Donna Hutton, director of nursing at the Edmonton Cros Cancer Institute since 1988 will assume the position of AARN executive director July 12 1999 Immediately before joining the Cros Hutton held positions as assistant director of nursing and director of nursing at the University of Alberta Hospitals. She occupys a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Alberta, a bachelor of science in nursing stage from the U of A and is a certified health executive with the Canadian association of HeaLth Service Executives.

Hutton takes through from Marilyn Wacko who was appointed as executive director for a one-year contract in July 1998

AARN lobby of Bill 22 leads to amendment of restricted activities section

A persistent, two-month protracted lobby by the AARN has comeed in an amendment to the restricted activities section of Bill 22 the Health Professions Act (HPA). by means of May 11 the ARN learned that the Alberta dominion had introduced an amendment to Bill 22 that would allow health professional assign places tos regulated by the HPA to write regulations that would define which unregulated personnel could perform restricted activities and to what degree regulated members must supervise unregulated workers.

The AARN indicated in a May 11 communique to Provincial and District councilors and political action co-ordinators that the amendment will allow the professions to more tightly repress who can carry out restricted activities and in a less degree than what circumstances.

"This will debar employers from putting pressure forward their employees to consent to and supervise unregulated personnel doing restricted activities. At this point, we anticipate that nursing pupils will be the only unregulated nation who will perform restricted activities beneath our regulation," said the AARN.

The AARN oppos a section of Bill 22 (Health Professions Act) when it was introduced for next to the first reading in the Alberta legislature April 13 The association held a novels conference to explain registered nurses' objection to Section 136 4(1)(b) of Schedule 71 Health Services Restricted Activities that would allow unregulated workers to perform restricted activities as it is as administering injections and intravenous therapy.

"This section will permit untrained population to provide any health care service. They alone need permission from a professional and an undefined degree of supervision to carry public the procedure," said AARN President Lorraine Way at an April 13 stranges conference at the Alberta Legislature.

"We are amazed the control would create a list of restricted activities - activities it believes carry a significant extent of risk - and then spread the door for unregulated workers to carry public these activities. Some may believe this section creates flexibility and could save currency but Alberta RNs believe this section will present every Albertan at risk and actually charge more money in the lengthy run," she said.

The AARN propos an amendment to the section and forwarded it to Nancy MacBeth, Leader of the Liberal Party, fleece Renner, Chair of the Health Professions Act Implementation and all management MLAs in early April. The propos change clarified the part of the RN and other regulated professionals to delegate and supervise functions performed by dint of unregulated workers.

President Lorraine Way acknowledged efforts by dint of many AARN members and support from the Liberal and New Democrat opposition parties as significant factors in achieving the amendment.

The Health Professions Act is not awaited to be enforced until regulations for all professions are drafted, a proces that may take another individual to two years.

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