Are there any Health Staff out there that want to specialize in medicinal cannabis?

buckets

buckets

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Hi:

I'm a registered nurse situated in Australia and I would like to talk with healthcare staff that are interested in specializing in medicinal cannabis. There are 18 states in the USA, and Canada has a program as well. I am actually from Canada and I hope to go back there, do my RN qualifications over there and either run a commercial grow operation or a dispensary or both.

I've written into universities asking about where there medicinal cannabis programs are for those nurses wanting to specialize in this specialty area in several of those american 18 states. I got replies that said basically, that's a bloody good idea. Nothing has happened yet though as far as I am aware.

Would anyone like to comment about what should be in a medicinal cannabis specialty training program for healthcare staff? This is assuming you already have gone through an RN degree or a doctors degree or whatever your profession is...

Experienced growers and horticulturists should definitely put in their two cents here...

My thinking is that if the government wants healthcare workers in this area, they have to have training programs designed specifically for medicinal cannabis. That hasn't happened yet. Hence my creation of this thread.

Would anyone like to comment?

Have a good day.

Buckets
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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Hmm How is this News? You posted in the News section LOL

Back to your topic, I'm thinking about why a therapeutic regimen should be treated as a professional specialty?
 
buckets

buckets

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that's a valid point. I'm not saying that medicinal cannabis should be only a professional specialty. Anyone in those places where programs are allowed should be allowed, but there should also be a pathway for people with health qualifications to work and own in this sector. Why? Because it's all falling under health and that means people with health quals need to be able to learn and work in that area too. The funny thing about health professionals is that they want to train in specialty pathways but they need to have programs designed and implemented. If some nurses quit their jobs in hospitals as many do these days, by allowing them to work in the community either growing or selling medicinal cannabis, you'd start a new pathway for them, they'd earn more money than they ever had before, and you'd retain more nurses in the work force I would argue.

Sorry that I posed this in the wrong section. There should be another section for health professionals so they can start to talk and unite and pressure government. I don't know if you realize but in 2014 a worlds first happens in Canada. Nurse practitioners will become able to prescribe medicinal cannabis. That's huge for the nursing community.

Have a good day.

Buckets
 
Figong

Figong

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buckets said:
Hi:

I'm a registered nurse situated in Australia and I would like to talk with healthcare staff that are interested in specializing in medicinal cannabis. There are 18 states in the USA, and Canada has a program as well. I am actually from Canada and I hope to go back there, do my RN qualifications over there and either run a commercial grow operation or a dispensary or both.

I've written into universities asking about where there medicinal cannabis programs are for those nurses wanting to specialize in this specialty area in several of those american 18 states. I got replies that said basically, that's a bloody good idea. Nothing has happened yet though as far as I am aware.

Would anyone like to comment about what should be in a medicinal cannabis specialty training program for healthcare staff? This is assuming you already have gone through an RN degree or a doctors degree or whatever your profession is...

Experienced growers and horticulturists should definitely put in their two cents here...

My thinking is that if the government wants healthcare workers in this area, they have to have training programs designed specifically for medicinal cannabis. That hasn't happened yet. Hence my creation of this thread.

Would anyone like to comment?

Have a good day.

Buckets
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If you plan a dispensary and want to grow your own so you don't have to buy then mark it up.. highly recommended that you hammer down horticulture en masse. That will be the building block for everything else. Start with the basics(by basics I mean beginning horticulture, intermediate, and advanced books that exist on Amazon or your local library), then work into the physiology of plants, management, handling of, storage, plant biochemistry...plant breeding/genetics, pests, chemicals used to control pests (natural fixes for pests vs systemic), how to read MSDS, test equipment depending on soil vs hydro, nutrients... and the list goes on and on. I could write a 5 page list of everything needed to ensure your sanity and make sure things go off with no issues, but this is a decent start. The dispensary side (other than the handling/storage/management I mentioned) is a whole other subject.

I agree that more qualified doctors need to be in the field to facilitate these changes that are slowly trickling into the US, without question. Did you happen to write the University of Michigan about the program you're proposing out of curiosity?
 
buckets

buckets

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Hello Fi Gong:

No I didn't write to them. Only the west coast in washington state. Thank you very much for giving me some idea about what we should be looking at for course content. Once again I apologize for putting this thread in the news section. I can't find any email contact for roll it up to ask for a health care people section.

Have a good day.

Buckets
 
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