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Quebec Chapter Report

January 2012

Bonjour du Québec,

First, I want to commend the British Columbia Chapter for hosting a truly memorable 42nd Annual Meeting last June that was much enjoyed by the ten CANN Quebec members who attended. I am looking forward to the 43rd Annual Meeting in Ottawa that is only a few months away (June 5–8) and want to remind everyone that the 2013 meeting will take place in my beautiful city of Montreal.

The CANN Quebec Chapter has been working hard since my last report. Over the summer, a very effective Organizing Committee of nurses in the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) got together to plan our second Neuro Nursing conference in French for nurses and allied health colleagues working in and around the Montreal area. The target audience included nurses at rehabilitation centres and regional hospitals who have few opportunities for updates in French on neurological illnesses and treatments. The workshop took place on September 28th and was called “The impact of neurological illness on patients and their families”. The program comprised talks on brain tumours, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, movement disorders as well as pediatric neurology. The conference was attended by an audience of 32 nurses and nursing assistants from 12 different centres. Their feedback was very positive and there was much interest in CANN. The success of the conference was due to the many contributions of the Organizing Committee, our gifted presenters and Genevieve Tousignant who obtained sponsorship for the refreshments and lunch. Thanks to you all we were able to raise funds to support nurses to attend the Ottawa meeting in June.

We have found that breakfast meetings work very well to bring us together before the work day begins. We have held two of these over the fall, with a much larger turnout than afternoon meetings, and with everyone contributing to a delicious breakfast while we planned our next fundraiser in February 2012. A real recipe for success!

Respectfully submitted,
Martha A. Stewart, RN, MSc(A), CNN(C)
Quebec Councillor


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