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N4 / SPU IEHPs Online Program
Fostering Canadian Integration for IEHPs: From Learning to Action
This 12-week program is designed to accompany and support IEHPs with the challenges of finding their place in Canada. It is based on an integrated development model that focuses on knowledge, skills and identity-making.
The program's content will allow you to develop non-clinical skills and knowledge to support your successful integration in Canada while forming a learning community through exercises of personal development and reflective practice (circle of support, reflective learning journals, discussion forums). It is training that welcomes you and helps you leverage your expertise in a new cultural context.
September to December 2023 · Free (funded by IRCC) · Certificate of Attendance · Limited Spots · 100% Online · Peer-to-Peer Mentorship · Live Sessions (recorded for watching anytime, anywhere)
New Members
Health and social service professionals across Canada join N4 to ensure equity for our newcomers. Here's some of the cities where our newest members have joined from.
Burnaby, BC · Calgary, AB · Charlottetown, PEI · Edmonton, AB · Fredericton, NB · Halifax, NS · Kingston, ON · London, ON · New Westminster, BC · North York, ON · Oakville, ON · Oshawa, ON · Ottawa, ON · Red Deer, AB · Saskatoon, SK · Scarborough, ON· Toronto, ON · Vancouver, BC · Vaughan, ON · Winnipeg, MB
Featured Webinar
Informed Decision-Making and Consent: Who Decides and How? Professional Roles and Responsibilities
Should a patient be told if they are nearing end of life? Who can decide whether a person receives life sustaining treatment or will have an autopsy after death? What governs how complex issues like MAiD and abortion are discussed appropriately? This webinar will include an ethicist’s presentation on the legal and ethical frameworks for decision-making and the roles and responsibilities of health professionals. There will be small group discussion of cases to explore these challenges and their management. Group reflections be guided and facilitated by experienced ethics coaches. Finally, these reflections will be shared with the full participant group and key take-home practice messages will be provided.
Facilitator: Dr. Michelle Mullen, Bioethicist, CHEO
July 5 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Upcoming Webinars
July 19 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
The Welcome Collaborative: Supporting Internationally Trained Physicians Who Are Newly Licensed in Nova Scotia
Speakers: Rhonda Kirkwood, Director of Physician Performance, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia · George Chimdi Mbara, Program Manager, Welcome Collaborative at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia · Priya Patel, Administrative Assistant, Welcome Collaborative at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia
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Featured Member
Cindy Dawson is the Clinical Manager of 1Call1Click.ca, an initiative of the Kids Come First Health Team, providing mental health, addiction and substance use health care for children and youth based out of CHEO. Cindy has two decades of experience working in the children and youth mental health space and shares this expertise as an N4 subject matter expert.
Featured Organization
Rainbow Railroad is global not-for-profit organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever before, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm.
Temporary Foreign Worker Positions Over Time, Citizenship and Study Permit Holders
Our Latest Organizational Partnerships
Cape Breton Island Centre for Immigration, Sydney, NS
Nova Scotia College of Nurses, Bedford, NS
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON
YMCA/YWCA, Ottawa, ON
N4 meets regularly with stakeholder organizations to ensure we support their efforts to create equity for newcomers.
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ITP and IEN Recommendation Reports
N4 has recently published recommendation reports, designed to serve as a roadmap to successfully integrate and retain ITPs and IENs into the Canadian health care workforce.
Assessments as Information: A Solutions Perspective on Competency Equivalent Evaluations of Internationally Educated Nurses
During a time when we could no longer ignore an inevitable nurse shortage crisis, the pandemic shifted the perception of assessments, particularly those designed to assess competency equivalence, from gatekeepers of public protection to ironically barriers to public protection. In our current post-pandemic climate where the nurse shortage still exists and much emphasis has been placed on IENs as a key resource, the time is ripe to once again shift our thinking surrounding assessments. We invite you to this webinar as we begin to reframe thinking surrounding assessments within an IEN landscape to that of a solutions-based model.
Speakers: Karen Coetzee, Director, Research & Analysis, Touchstone Institute | Alex Tran, Director, Exam Administration, Touchstone Institute | Luxshi Amirthalingam, Data Analyst/Coordinator, Touchstone Institute
Resources
What Members Say About N4
"I have learned that the important thing is to commit to improving and taking actions to make it happen. Thank you very much to everyone involved in the program: the lessons were very informative, and the material provided was very interesting."
Diana Sá, Internationally Trained Physician (ITP) Participant in the N4/SPU IEHPs Online Programm
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IRCC: You're Invited to a Virtual Learning Session
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) recently announced the implementation of category-based selection in Express Entry... Read MoreTouchstone Institute: Practice Ready Ontario (PRO)
Touchstone Institute is working with the Government of Ontario and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) and others to administer a practice ready assessment... Read MoreIRCC: Canada is addressing current and emerging labour demands in health care
In recent years Canada’s health care workers have been challenged like never before and this has led to unprecedented... Read MoreCAMH: NOW OPEN! Registration for the Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Online Courses
The Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project (IRMHP) offers online training, tools and resources... Read More
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