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Contents
April 7/21 Guest Speaker............ 2 OASC AGM Meeting .................. 2 OASC March 3/21 Minutes......... 3 VeganOstomy
Community Forums ..................... 8 Spring Birds ................................. 10 Just for Laughs ........................... 12 Shower Curtain Concerts ......... 13 Clostridium Difficile.................... 14 OASC Spring Speakers ............. 18 Stay Informed ........................... 18 Cook House ............................... 18 Do You Have a Nurse?...............19 Ostomy Suppliers........................19 Everyone You Meet....................20
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No Professional Advice – the content of articles and other projects is for informational purposes only and does not consti- tute professional advice.
Ostomy Association Simcoe County
Be sure to meet on Zoom on Wednesday, April 7/21 at 7pm Guest sPeAker:
JeNN BreWer
RN BScN CETN (c) Enterostomal therapy nurse
Jenn Brewer works hard to support all of us as our ostomy nurse in the Simcoe area. She is based at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital where
she works with Dr. Michael Lisi, CGMH’s chief of staff. Jenn is a dedicated nursing professional who really knows the health care system from the inside out. She graduated as a registered nurse from Georgian College in 1999 and completed a BScN at York University in 2007, while working as a visiting nurse for Bayshore Home Health and then as a case manager in Oncology and Palliative care with the North Simcoe Muskoka Community Care Access Centre (CCAC). In 2008, she joined Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie as a staff surgical nurse and went on to qualify as an enterostomal therapist in 2011. She’s worked as an ET for St. Elizabeth Health Care and for Muskoka’s Closing the Gap Healthcare as well as CGMH.
Join our virtual
meeting.
We will briefly to review our financial picture and confirm our leadership team going forward before opening the floor to your ostomy QA with our enterostomal nurse Jenn Brewer.
All leAdeRshiP Positions ARe oPen.
President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, membership, communications, director. (Elected members generally serve a 2-year term.)
You can also nominate candidates ‘from the floor’ at the AGM.
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