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Time to renew your ACEN membership
ACEN membership is open to all Chief Nurses and Director level nurses in all institutions with an academic mandate. Institutions with an academic mandate include teaching hospitals, universities, community hospitals, long term care facilities, community care organizations and public health organizations. Visit the membership page and JOIN NOW!
Cross Country Check Up – March 1st
Join us on Friday, March 1st from 12h30-13h30 EST Katherine Chubbs, President-Elect ACEN and Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Eastern Health will be provide an overview of the Drug Shortage Framework developed in Newfoundland and Labrador and the role of nursing when MANAGING drug shortages.
Cross Country Check Up – December 7th
Join us on Friday, December 7th from 12h30 13h30 EST The topic of the call will be “Developing leadership and management behaviours for implementing clinical practice guidelines". We look forward to hearing from Wendy Gifford regarding her findings on the results of a pilot study, designed to develop and evaluate a leadership intervention on nurses' use of guideline recommendations when caring for patients with diabetic foot ulcers in home care nursing.
ACEN Leadership Paper:
Brief for the Canadian Nurses Association’s National Expert Commission on The Health of our Nation, the Future of our Health System. “Leadership for Health System Transformation: What’s needed in Canada?” Overview The purpose of this brief is to recommend what is needed for health executives and senior leaders to effectively lead health system transformation in Canada. To develop a truly integrated client-centric health system, health leaders are called upon to work across ...
ACEN Cross Country Check Up
Join us on Wednesday, April 18th from 12h00 13h00 EDT The topic of the call will be "Current Status of Health Care Reform Changes Across the Country". We look forward to hearing what is happening in different Canadian jurisdictions.
Submission to the Expert Health Commission
In the fall, the Canadian Nurses Association launched an Expert Health Commission, with the mandate to gather opinions from the Canadian nursing community for a new Health Accord with the Federal government. The Commission is co-chaired by Maureen McTeer and Marlene Smadu. ACEN was invited to submit recommendations on leadership issues in health care to the Commission. The ACEN Leadership/Policy Committee agreed with the request and commissioned Dr. Raquel Meyer (Manager, ...
Changes to ACEN Executive
ACEN now has over 110 senior nursing leaders, representing academic centres, large community hospitals, home care organizations, regional health care organizations, provincial nursing offices and university deans. In August 2011, at the request of the Executive Committee to make sure all sections of the country were represented, the membership supported the creation of advisory positions to sit on the Executive Committee ensuring that the committee represents the views of nursing leaders ...
Nursing Indicator Project
Less than one year ago, ACEN and the Canadian Nurses Association, supported by Health Canada led a Think Tank to create national nurse indicators for all health care sectors. The Think Tank resulted in a National Steering Committee co-chaired by Sue VanDeVelde-Coke (President, ACEN) and Anne Sutherland Boal (Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Nurses Association) along with a hard working research project team co-chaired by Diane Doran (Scientific Director, Nursing Health Services ...
About ACEN
The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses represents the voice of nursing leadership in Canada. Founded ...
