Happy Certified Nurses Day! Thank you to everyone who got in touch with us regarding a spring study group. There were not enough people to support a formal study group, but we have individual support set up for two nurses who contacted us, and are registered to write the May exam. As of March 19th,
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Get ready for our next Calgary Chapter event! We invite RNs and LPNs to join us for a session to discuss professional development in Gerontological Nursing. We will focus on low-cost and free resources to support your knowledge and practice, including strategies to maintain CNA Certification and work toward your continuing competence goals. If you
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We invite AGNA members to join us for an interesting evening of learning and discussion about vaccines, on Tuesday, October 29th. Our guest speaker is a vaccine educator, and will review the most common types, and what’s new this season. We will follow with a walkthrough of the competencies for a gerontological nurse, including the
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Happy August to our peers across the City of Calgary, as well as those across the Province. It is again the time of year when we look forward to Fall, and plan our professional development. The Calgary chapter of AGNA will again offer a Gerontology Peer Study Group for 8 weeks, with weekly meetings through
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We would like to invite all our Calgary Chapter members (and anyone else interested) to join us for our next event, on April 10th. We are excited to welcome speaker Kendra Kovacik to discuss Home design to support aging in place. We will also hold our AGM, during which we hope to recruit new Chapter
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Dear AGNA members, we are so thankful for the support and interest shown for our certification study group in Calgary! There was not enough nurses requesting the spring session to create a full group, but we have been able to pair a few individuals preparing for the exam with mentors and access to help. For
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Greetings to our AGNA members, there continues to be a lot of interest in Gerontology study groups, both for those pursuing CNA Certification in May, as well as for those wishing to pursue professional development in this specialty area. We are using the competency areas listed on the CNA website. We are looking for those
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Congratulations go out to all the Fall 2018 Study group members who joined our pilot project in Calgary. Although we intended to start with just local peers, we were thrilled when a few members from other parts of the province joined us as well. I am so pleased to announce all 10 of our dedicated
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Dear fellow AGNA members, As many of you may recall, our Calgary Chapter offered a small Gerontological Certification study group this fall, trialling an online meeting form as an option for our participants. I am happy to report that this worked better than we had hoped, and over the course of two months, we were
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Greetings to our Calgary AGNA Chapter members! To celebrate Canadian Patient Safety Week, the Calgary Chapter held a joint event with the Alberta Association on Gerontology and the Kerby Centre on November 1st, with a presentation and discussion on safe medication use for seniors. We were thrilled to have a group of 13 seniors and
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