Annual Meeting 2011

Resolutions

CNA Resolutions - June 2004

RESOLUTION 10	RECOGNIZING NURSES LOST IN THE LINE OF DUTY
To be discussed at the November 2004 meeting of the CNA Board of Directors

BE IT RESOLVED, That, at the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Biennial Convention, one minute of silence be observed in remembrance of nurses who have died in the line of duty;¹ and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That CNA consider the feasibility, that annually during Nursing Week, these brave nurses who have died in the line of duty be recognized and remembered for their contribution to the health and welfare of the nation by publishing their names in the Canadian Nurse.

Background

In March 2004, the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia’s (RNABC) Board of Directors approved a resolution from the Mount Arrowsmith Chapter to recommend that CNA recognize nurses who have died in the line of duty.

Nursing sisters who have died in the line of military duty historically are honoured on Remembrance Day by laying a wreath at the National Cenotaph and by laying flowers at the Nursing Sisters’ Memorial in the Hall of Honour on Parliament Hill. Fundraising for a monument to Canadian Aid Workers in Ottawa began after Nancy Malloy, a nurse and six of her colleagues with International Committee of the Red Cross, were murdered while on a humanitarian mission in Chechnya in 1996. Other nurses have died in the line of duty, including two registered nurses from Ontario who died of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) last year.

CNA can recognize and honour these nurses who have died in the line of public service by observing one minute of silence at the Biennial Convention and by publishing their names each year during Nursing Week in the Canadian Nurse.

Submitted by the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia

¹ In the line of duty is understood to mean nurses who have died as a result of a disease, accident or violence associated with their work as a registered nurse.