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Issue 1: March , 2022

Report From Council

The Council welcomed Ms. Damilola Iduye to the role of Public Representative representing the African Nova Scotian community. Ms. Iduye is a Senior Instructor at the School of Nursing, a Research Scholar at the Healthy Population Institute, and a member of the Joanna Briggs Institute Aligning Health Needs and Evidence for Transformative Change, Dalhousie University. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, a Master of Nursing with a focus on Health Policy from Dalhousie University, and a Bachelor of Nursing Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

At its meeting the Council approved the following professional standard:

The standard establishes the professional, ethical and practice requirements for physicians in relation to prescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in outpatient community settings. The standard does not address prescribing for palliative or end-of-life patients, acute seizure disorders, akathisia, and alcohol withdrawal. The College undertook extensive stakeholder consultation in the development of this new standard.

The Council also approved the 2021 Audited Financial Statements.

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