{"id":360,"date":"2021-02-09T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/?p=360"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:27:09","slug":"cnsa-conference-looks-at-crisis-intervention-for-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/cnsa-conference-looks-at-crisis-intervention-for-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"CNSA conference looks at crisis intervention for nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jessica Ritchie and Oluwatosin (Tosin) Daso.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For two fourth-year College of Nursing students, the Canadian Nursing Students Association (CNSA) annual conference held January 19 \u2013 24 was a great opportunity to meet other nursing students from across Canada and learn the importance of taking care of themselves in order to care for their patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNurses are human as well, and this conference could not stress that enough,\u201d said Oluwatosin (Tosin) Daso, the college\u2019s official CNSA delegate. \u201cIt\u2019s so important, because when there is accumulated stress and the nurses aren\u2019t taking care of themselves, they can easily become frustrated and transfer that aggression to patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daso and Nursing Students Association (NSA) senate rep Jessica Ritchie were among six College of Nursing students who attended the virtual conference, hosted by MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI did miss the part about travelling, but it was still good to gain knowledge and meet people virtually,\u201d said Daso, who is originally from Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virtual format also allowed the students to attend workshops while still keeping up with their busy schedules. Ritchie had an exam in the middle of the conference, while Daso was part-way through her practicum at St. Boniface Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe attended as many workshops as we could, and some of them were very interesting,\u201d said Ritchie, originally from Russell, Man. \u201cThere was an ASL workshop where we learned basic medical sign language so we can communicate with the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The topic of the conference was crisis intervention, so we got to learn about how nursing and other health-care professions are impacted in crisis situations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference encouraged students to interact online, and awarded prizes to the students who interacted most. At third place, Ritchie won an $80 gift card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have quite a few takeaways from this conference, but the main one is that I learned it\u2019s ok to ask for help. The stigma of that needs to be addressed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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