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Practice Summary
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Patricia
L. Thornton R.N.
Registered Nurse Consultant
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Languages |
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English, Intermediate French |
Education
& Certification |
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Registered Nurse, College of Nurses of Ontario
Registration #76-0197 4
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nurse (Certified)
Canadian Nurses Association
Certificate – Progressive Goal Attainment Program
(PGAP)
Certificate - Advanced Palliative Care
Certificate - Adult Education
Certificate - Pain in the Elderly
Palliative Care Institute, Ottawa, ON
Elisabeth Bruyère Palliative Care Unit
Certificate - Palliative Care
The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON |
Experience |
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30 years experience in the discipline of nursing,
including rehabilitation, community/clinic nursing in
hospice palliative care, orthopaedics, homelessness,
psychiatry, surgery and medicine
Expertise in assessing, planning, implementing and
evaluating the options and services to meet the required
rehabilitative needs of disabled individuals including
the provision of services for clients with acquired
brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal
injuries, mental health disorders and chronic pain.
Skilled in using management of chronic pain, and other
symptoms, to facilitate and enhance client function
and quality of life. Extensive knowledge of community
resources, substance abuse, elder abuse and homelessness.
A roster member of the TRAC-Traumatic Brain Injury,
TRAC-Spinal Cord Injury and TRAC-Vocational Programs.
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Professional
Affiliations & Activities |
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PGAP certified
Canadian Nurses Association
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
Community Nurses Interest Group of R.N.A.O.
Palliative Care Nurse Leader for RN/RPN Coaching Education
Program, 2006-2007
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Continuing
Education |
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Seminar: Chronic Pain, November
2007
Workshop: University Centre for Research
on Pain and Disability: Progressive Goal Attainment
Program, January 2007
Seminar: The Addicted Brain, May 2007
Conference: Brain Injury and Beyond:
Looking Back, Thinking Forward”, November 2006
Workshop: Progressive Goal attainment
Program; Intensive Pre-Vocational Program; Cognitive
Work Hardening Program, November 2006
Conference: Foundations of Brain Injury
Rehabilitation: Hospital to Community, September 2006
Conference: Reflecting Reality, Real
Case Management Real Answers, April 2006,
Conference: Practical Strategies for
Effectively Supporting, Treating and Educating Families
After TBI And Other Neurological Disorders, November
2005
14th Annual Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Queen's
University, September 2005 |
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