Central Region For more information please contact your Central
Regional Coordinator:
April 2010 Heather Wasylenki, RN, BScN OHNC
Tel: 403.782.2024
hwasylenki@nurses.ab.ca
TAKE NOTE
Did You Know? AARNIPP AOHNA
Education day, Conference and
Protected Titles
Education Day and AGM AGM
May 29, 0930-1530 hours May 26-28 Banff Park Lodge
Nursing professionals have
Kerry Wood Nature Centre www.aohna.ab.ca for information
various titles but did you know
Red Deer. Registration deadline
such titles are protected by law?
May 19. Contact 780.428.7107 or Central Nurses Dinner
In Alberta the word “nurse” is a
info@privatepracticenurses.ca Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse
title which is protected in section
May 11, 2010
128 of the Health Professions Act.
Cocktails: 5:30; Dinner: 6:00
Only a person registered by the
RNs: Expert Caring Makes a Heartland Room, Westerner Park
regulatory college of licensed
Difference Red Deer
practice nurses, registered
Tickets $30.00 available until April
psychiatric nurses or registered
The theme for National Nursing 30.
nurses can call themselves a
Week in Alberta. Celebrate RN’s For information/tickets contact
nurse. No person, who is not
in our province May 10th-16th. If Heather at 403.782.2024
regulated with one of the three
you are organizing a Nursing Week
nursing regulatory colleges, is to
event and would like your CARNA WIN TICKETS!
use the word nurse alone or in
Regional Coordinator to attend, The 2010 Central Nurses Dinner
combination with other words that
contact Heather Wasylenki. will be held May 11, 2010 at
states or implies that they are a
Westerner Park in Red Deer. Join
regulated member. A person who
CARNA, CLPNA & CRPNA your colleagues to celebrate “Once a
contravenes section 128 of HPA is
Release Joint Study Nurse, Always a Nurse. Your
guilty of an offence and liable for
Provincial Councillors have offered
a first offence, to a fine not more
The three colleges that regulate to provide tickets for two RN and
than $2000 and for subsequence
nursing in Alberta have released a two Nursing Students who reside
offences the fine increases and can
report that identifies the similarities in the Central Region to attend. To
involve serious legal action.
and differences in educational enter these draws contact Heather at
preparation among the nursing 403-782-2024 or via mail/email
Regulated members of CARNA
professions. To learn more go to before April 26.
can call themselves a nurse and
www.nurses.ab.ca and check out
may use the title or initials for the
the “What’s New” section. Your CARNA Central
category for which they are
Provincial Council Members
registered: Registered Nurse, RN,
CARNA AGM
Certified Graduate Nurse, CGN,
Tammy Syrnyk – Camrose
Graduate Nurse, GN,
April 29, 2010 1600-1730 Phone: 780.672.8466
Graduate Nurse Practitioner,
Shaw Conference Centre, Tammy.Syrnyk
GNP, Nurse Practitioner, NP.
Edmonton. Go to @albertahealthservices.ca
www.nurses.ab.ca to confirm your Andrea Miller – Camrose
attendance. Phone: 780.608.8598
Andrea.M.Miller
@albertahealthservices.ca