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AUGUST 2022

Unshakeable confidence in nursing and midwifery care

 
 
 

Keegan's story: lessons & learnings

We are pleased to share Remembering Keegan: a BC First Nations Case Study Reflection, released publicly and gifted in ceremony on Feb. 21, 2022. Keegan Combes of Skwah First Nation was a high school graduate, a grade-10 pianist, and a chess champion, who was enrolled in a trades college at the time of his death from accidental poisoning.

The case study reflection is the first of its kind shared by B.C. First Nations and is intended to help shape the quality of care for all Indigenous people in B.C. and across the country, and to prevent this from happening to anyone else.

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Learning resources


 

CASE STUDY

Virtual care

Maggie, a registered midwife in B.C., meets with her client Indira who is 23-weeks pregnant with her first baby. Indira has been diagnosed with placenta previa and is awaiting test results for gestational diabetes screening. She tells Maggie she is planning an eight-week trip to Nova Scotia to visit family.

Can Maggie provide virtual care while Indira is traveling outside B.C.?


AUG. 4, 2022

Survey results, next steps

In June 2022, we sent a survey to midwives about the proposed Registered Midwives Medications and Substances: Standards, Limits, and Conditions. We thank everyone who took part in the survey and would like to share a summary of the results with you.

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Are you interested in serving on a BCCNM committee?

We are currently accepting applications for BCCNM's regulatory committees, for terms beginning Feb. 1, 2023. In particular, we are encouraging applications from Indigenous people; members from racialized and marginalized groups; individuals identifying as LGBTQ2S+; and individuals with lived experience of physical, cognitive, or mental health conditions, or their caregivers.

Deadline to apply is Sept. 30, 2022.

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Inquiry, Discipline, and Monitoring updates


BCCNM publishes a variety of professional conduct notices on its website. These notices include consent agreements, Discipline Committee and Inquiry Committee notices, and Inquiry and Discipline hearing notices. While all of these notices are public information, only exceptional outcomes (i.e., Inquiry Committee order, Discipline order, hearing outcome) and circumstances (i.e., discipline hearing) are highlighted in registrant newsletters.

UPCOMING HEARINGS

 

Office closed

BCCNM's office will be closed on Monday, Sept. 5 for Labour Day. We will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

Due to COVID-19, our office is currently closed to walk-in traffic.

 
 
 

 

 

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We acknowledge the rights and title of the First Nations on whose collective unceded territories encompass the land base colonially known as British Columbia. We give specific thanks to the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking peoples the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh-ulh Sníchim speaking Peoples the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), on whose unceded territories BCCNM’s office is located. We also give thanks for the medicines of these territories and recognize that laws, governance, and health systems tied to these lands and waters have existed here for over 9000 years.

We also acknowledge the unique and distinct rights, including rights to health and wellness, of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples from elsewhere in Canada who now live in British Columbia. As leaders in the settler health system, we acknowledge our responsibilities to these rights under international, national, and provincial law.​