Schedule
Thursday April 23
Friday April 24 continued
1430-1500 Coffee, browse Exhibitor tables and
Posters
1500-1600 Breakout Sessions
1800-2100 Registration, Meet & Greet Wine
and Cheese Event with door prizes
Saturday April 25
0800-0900
Friday April 24
0730-0900
0900-0915
0915-1000
1015-1030
1030-1200 1200-1300
1300-1315
1315-1330
1330-1430
Registration, Breakfast, browse
Exhibitor Tables and Posters.
Welcome and Door Prizes
Isobel Mackenzie-”Charting New
Waters, the first year as BC’s Seniors
Advocate”
Stretch and Breathe
Breakout Sessions
Lunch and browse Exhibitor Tables
and Posters
Door Prizes
Stretch and breathe
Dr. Edith Blondel-Hill- “Urinary
Tract Infection or Asymptomatic
Bacteriuria? Knowing the
Difference Could Make all the
Difference”
0900-0915
0915-1015
1015-1030
1030-1100
1100-1145
1130-1145
1145-1200
1200-1300
1400-1730
Breakfast and Browse Exhibitor
Tables and Posters
Welcome Back to Day 2 and Door
Prizes
Dr. Barb Mildon “Advancing
Quality of Care for Seniors:
Nursing Advocacy in Policy,
Practice and Research”.
Stretch and Breathe
Coffee and browse Exhibitors Tables
and Poster
Janice Vance Presentation
Stretch and Breathe
Closing remarks and Final Door
Prizes.
Annual General GNABC Meeting Please stay as we need a quorum.
Distinctly Kelowna Wine Tour (For
those who signed up but they may be
able to take last requests if still room)
Opening Remarks: April 24
ISOBEL MCKENZIE,
BC’s First Seniors Advocate
18 years of experience working on behalf of seniors at
a local, provincial and national level.
Almost two decades working directly with seniors,
their families and their care providers learning about
the individual issues that affect seniors as they age
and recerive care a strong voice for British Columbia’s nearly 700,000 seniors
The Office of the Seniors Advocate will monitor
seniors’ services, promote awareness and work collaboratively with seniors, families, policymakers, service
providers and others to identify solutions to systemic
issues and make recommendations to government on
ways to improve care for our aging population.
Opening Remarks: April 25
DR. BARBARA L. MILDON
Barbara Mildon’s nursing expe-
rience spans the domains of clinical
care, clinical education, research, regulation and administration. A certified health executive (Canadian
College of Health Leaders) and a certified
community health nurse (Canadian Nurses Association), Mildon has held progressive clinical practice
and management positions in Ontario and British
Columbia. She is currently vice president of professional practice and research and chief nurse executive
at the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ontario.
While president of the Community Health Nurses
of Canada (2000-2004), she led the development of
national standards of practice for community health
nursing, which resulted in the recognition of community health nursing by CNA as a specialty practice and its
inclusion in the CNA Certification program.
Mildon has published and presented widely and is the recipient of several awards. She
became president of CNA in June 2012.
Keynote Speaker
EDITH BLONDEL-HILL, MD, FRCP
Dr. Edith Blondel-Hill trained at the University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and received
specialty training in internal medicine, infectious diseases and medical microbiology. She started her career
at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton as an
infectious diseases consultant and medical microbiologist and moved to Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories in 1997.
She moved to British Columbia in 2003 where she
worked as a microbiology/infectious diseases consultant at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver until 2008. She is currently the microbiology lead and
medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship
Program for Interior Health and is located at the Larissa Yarr Microbiology Laboratory at the Kelowna
General Hospital in Kelowna, British Columbia. She
has a long interest in antimicrobial utilization, chairing various antimicrobial advisory committees in Alberta and British Columbia as well as being involved
in guideline and policy development for antibiotic
use and prescribing. She is co-author of the Bugs and
Drugs – Antimicrobial/Infectious Diseases Reference Book
(currently in 5th edition) and the medical director of
the Do Bugs Need Drugs? an educational program to
address antimicrobial resistance.
Registration Information
Deadline: March 20, 2015
to ensure room rate and wine tour.
Registration Fee:
GNABC Members $185.00;
non-members $199.00; students $100.0
Cheque Payable to: GNABC Kelowna
Mail completed registration and cheque to:
Michelle Earl - 2210 Sunview Drive,
West Kelowna, BC V1Z 3X9
Cost includes: Meet & Greet, Breakfast, Keynote
Speakers, Breakout Sessions, Coffee, Access to Exhibitor
Tables and Posters.
Registrants are responsible for booking their own hotel
accomodations. The beautiful Coast Capri Hotel will have
rooms available for $96.00 single/double occupancy 3 days
pre and post the Conference. A free shuttle to and from
Kelowna Airport is available.
If you would like to sample and savour wines on a Wine
Tour you must provide a pre-paid cheque made out to “Distinctly Kelowna Tours” in the amount of $88.20 at the
time of conference registration. Distinctly Kelowna Wine
Tour Sat. April 25/15 from 2 pm -5:30 pm. Tour includes
transportation to and from Coast Capri Hotel, fully escorted
private tour at 3 winery’s fun and informative Tour Guide,
private Go Vino winery tour, wine tastings, water and snacks.
Location: Coast Capri Hotel and Conference Centre
in Kelowna Telephone numbers-1-800-663-1144
or direct 205-860-6060 - Free shuttle to and from
Kelowna Airport available.
Name:
Address:
Email Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
GNABC
member
YES
NO
Student
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Wine & Cheese
Reception
(Thursday
April 23, 2015)
YES
NO
We are in this together:
SENIORS ADVOCACY -
What is your role?
www.gnabc.com
Multidisciplinary Conference:
Gerontological Nurses Association of BC
Where: Coast Capri Hotel, Kelowna BC
When: April 23-25, 2015