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Family Practice Nurse - West Durham FHT (Pickering)

Job Summary

The Family Practice Nurse will work in close collaboration with physicians and other interdisciplinary health professionals including Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Social Workers, Dietitian and Pharmacist.  As a vital member of the team, the Registered Nurse is responsible for delivering quality nursing care to patients with a focus on assessment, health education, disease prevention, as well as the early identification and support for chronic health conditions.

Education:

  • Certificate of Co

Queen's FHT & Belleville NPLC join community partners in prescribing exercise

Inside Belleville article published October 28, 2016. Article in full pasted below. Erin Stewart, Quinte West News

Prescription to exercise, doctor’s orders

A new health care prescription has made its way to the Quinte region; it’s not actual medicine, but a 60-day pass to the YMCA to get people moving.

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Getting started on a registry for patients with depression

This document explains how to use standardized queries in your EMR to start building chronic disease registries. The instructions below focus on Depression. Depression affects about 5 percent of the Canadian population aged 15 years and over during any given year, and affects 12% of Canadians at some point in their lifetime [Statistics Canada’s 2012 CCHS]. The Conference Board of Canada said in a report released in September 2016 that depression costs the Canadian economy at least $32.3 billion annually in lost productivity.

Powassan and Area FHT wins Poster of Distinction award at HQT

Congratulations to Anna Gibson-Olajos and Meghan Peters, who were awarded Poster of Distinction at Health Quality Ontario's Health Quality Transformation conference on October 20, 2016. Their poster Because You Care: Using Your EMR Data to Save Lives tells the story of how D2D helped the Powassan and Area Family Health Team (PAAFHT) identify a serious issue in their data quality for colorectal cancer screening rates.

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Announcing the AFHTO 2016 Bright Lights Award Winners!

AFHTO has named eight innovators as winners of the organization’s annual Bright Lights Awards for their work in making meaningful improvements in patient health, how patients experience their care, and how efficiently healthcare resources are used. The awards recognize individuals for their leadership and for the work being conducted to improve the value of services delivered by primary care teams in Ontario. The winners were selected by a panel of judges from more than 60 nominations.

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Minister Hoskins has signed compensation funding letters

Today the Minister’s Office confirmed that funding letters regarding the compensation increases promised in the 2016 provincial budget are signed and will be going out within the next week. Click here to read the Minister’s announcement. Dates for web briefings with Ministry staff are being arranged. We expect to have further information out to you shortly.