If you recently received a Patient Enrolment Form in the mail, please complete it as soon as possible and return it to our office. If you have any questions in regard to the completion of these forms please feel free to call me at 613-332-1565, ext. 229.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Labour Day Weekend
The offices of the Bancroft Family Health Team, Clarissa Townsend (NP), Kathy Hardill (NP), and Drs. Cooper, Brown, & Griffin will be closed on Monday, September 5, 2011. As this is a statutory holiday registered patients with the Bancroft Family Health Network can call the Telephone Health Advisory Service (THAS) at 1-866-553-7205 with any medical issues, questions, or concerns that they may have during our closure. Have a safe holiday weekend!
Changes to NP Practice
Changes are coming to the scope of NP practice
The Ontario government has approved amendments to the Controlled Acts regulation under the Nursing Act, 1991, which were proposed by the College of Nurses of Ontario.
The regulatory amendment and related changes to the Nursing Act will take effect on Oct. 1, 2011 and will result in the following key changes to practice:
1. The NP drug list will be discontinued. With the exception of controlled substances, NPs will have the authority to prescribe medication as appropriate for client care. (This amendment does not affect the lists of X-rays and ultrasounds that continue to govern clinical aspects of NP practice.)
2. NPs will be able to dispense, sell and compound medication in specified circumstances (for example, when the client does not have reasonable access to a pharmacy).
3. NPs will be able to set and cast fractures in specified circumstances (for example, closed and un-displaced stable fractures).
4. NPs will be able to give client care orders to RNs and RPNs for procedures that they previously could not. For example, venipuncture to obtain blood samples.
A revised Nurse Practitioner practice standard, which includes new expectations for practice associated with the regulatory changes, will be available on the website when the regulation takes effect on Oct 1, 2011.
For more details, click here
The Ontario government has approved amendments to the Controlled Acts regulation under the Nursing Act, 1991, which were proposed by the College of Nurses of Ontario.
The regulatory amendment and related changes to the Nursing Act will take effect on Oct. 1, 2011 and will result in the following key changes to practice:
1. The NP drug list will be discontinued. With the exception of controlled substances, NPs will have the authority to prescribe medication as appropriate for client care. (This amendment does not affect the lists of X-rays and ultrasounds that continue to govern clinical aspects of NP practice.)
2. NPs will be able to dispense, sell and compound medication in specified circumstances (for example, when the client does not have reasonable access to a pharmacy).
3. NPs will be able to set and cast fractures in specified circumstances (for example, closed and un-displaced stable fractures).
4. NPs will be able to give client care orders to RNs and RPNs for procedures that they previously could not. For example, venipuncture to obtain blood samples.
A revised Nurse Practitioner practice standard, which includes new expectations for practice associated with the regulatory changes, will be available on the website when the regulation takes effect on Oct 1, 2011.
For more details, click here
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Great Idea!
What a fantastic idea!!! I think it will provide our patients and staff with another means of communicating ideas, program availabilitiy, what's working and what's not. Good work Dr. Griffin....
Salt Awareness
Salt is one of the major health issues facing Canadians today. The Ontario Medical Association has started an awareness campaign:
Cutting Back on Salt Can Save Your Life: Ontario’s Doctors
Cutting Back on Salt Can Save Your Life: Ontario’s Doctors
First post
Hi everyone,
We are going to try a new thing on on the web - a blog. I think that this is the best and easiest way for us all to post useful, interesting, or just plain fun stuff on the web for us and for our patients!
Everyone is free to contribute to the blog. It will replace the current news list on the website. The website will remain for more stable information (who's who, direction, hours).
So, let's see what happens.
Steve
We are going to try a new thing on on the web - a blog. I think that this is the best and easiest way for us all to post useful, interesting, or just plain fun stuff on the web for us and for our patients!
Everyone is free to contribute to the blog. It will replace the current news list on the website. The website will remain for more stable information (who's who, direction, hours).
So, let's see what happens.
Steve
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