September 22

Interactive Workshop

• A pan-Canadian conversation: advancing nursing scholarship strategies to promote nurse retention
• Dr. Alyssa Indar, RN, PhD
• Dr. Breanna Lloy, DN, RN-NP, FNPAC
• Melanie Dunlop, MN, RN-NP, FNPAC
• Sarah Crowe, MN, PMD-NP(F), CNCC(C), NP
• Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener, PhD, RN-NP
• Valerie Tan, RN, MN
• Sarah Colgan, NP, PhD(c)

Panel

• Enhancing sickle cell disease education through simulation
• Oluwamisimi Oluwole, BNSc student
• Empowering nurses to transform health: advancing clinical excellence through a comprehensive simulation program and mobile simulation innovation
• Amrutha Kumar, RN, BN, CPHQ, MHM, CHE
• Dr. Charissa Cordon, RN, BScN, MN, EdD, CHE

Panel

• Nurses’ perceptions and experiences that influence decision-making when encountering violence in medical and intensive care units
• Sarah Sutanto, RN, BSN
• Deanna Waslewsky, MN , RN
• MENDERS: A study of Manitoba emergency nurses: discovering effective solutions for work-related challenges
• Dr. Brenda Peters, RN(NP), PhD
• Improving nurse well‑being and care quality through minimum nurse‑to‑patient ratios: early evidence from British Columbia
• Kelly Charters, RN
• Applying the Canadian Nursing Retention Toolkit in a regional health system: a nurse-HR co‑led summit model to strengthen retention and workforce well-being
• Jacqueline Gordon, BN, DipUT, MN
• Christie Ruff, MM, BIS, CPHR, CHE

PechaKucha presentations

• Muslim nurses’ experiences of Islamophobia in Canada
• Zahra Upal, BA, RN, BScN, MN
• Creating vibrant communities: an organic and inclusive approach to person-directed living culture evolution
• Dr. Genevieve Thompson, RN, PhD
• Dr. Deanne O’Rourke, RN, PhD
• From strategy to the bedside: a nurse-led, community-anchored palliative care model supporting workforce well-being and retention
• Lisa Matthews, RN, BScN, MPH, CHE
• * The power of a vascular access team: tangible impacts on improving quality of care
• Marie Daphnée Bérubé, RN, BScN
• Camille Gavois, Bs. Inf., CSI
• Emergency department nurses’ experiences with suicide risk screening and assessment: a qualitative phenomenological study
• Adam Webster, RN, BScN
• Where potential meets possibility: how nurses can reimagine mental health and neurodevelopmental care
• Ms. Manalo
• A PRIME example of innovative programming that supports seniors as they age in place
• Gabrielle Demers, RN, BN, MSc(A), CGN(C)
• Lessons from Blue Door Clinic: building low-barrier HIV primary care for people from uninsured communities
• Sarah Ionson, RN, BScN, PDTN, ACRN
• Eileen Murphy, PHC-NP, MScN
• More care. Less NOISE. Reducing notifications interrupting safe and effective care
• Kaitlyn Vingoe, RN, BScN, MN
• Illuminating mentorship principles and approaches for racialized nurses
• Ann Pottinger, RN, MN, PhD (student)
• Dr. Rani Srivastava, RN, PhD, FCAN, FTNSS

• Lieutenant Colonel (LCol) Paula Walbourne
• Lieutenant Colonel (LCol) Marie-Julie Levesque

Interactive Workshop

• Policy is a practice domain: equipping nurses to lead systems change using policy tools and levers
• Dr. Leigh Chapman, RN, PhD, FCAN
• Angela Wignall, RN, BA, BSN, MA (Policy), PhD(c)

Panel

• Keep climbing mountains: supporting new graduate nurses across milestones at Scarborough Health Network
• Rachael Young, BScN, RN, MN
• Sherry O’Connor, BScN, RN, MN
• The new age of mental health: a transformative residency model for new graduate nurses in Canada’s largest mental health and addiction centre
• Kelyang Tenzin, RN, MN, CPMHN(C)
• Dawne Huang, RN, BScN, CPMHN(C)
• Addressing anti-Black racism: organizational mentorship as an important strategy
• Dr. Bukola Salami, RN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN
• Building community to close the equity gap: establishing a support group to support Black and racialized nursing students
• Val-King Akubuobi (student)
• Shakerah Jones Hall, RN, BScN, MSN ed, CCNE

Panel

• Meeting complex needs close to home: the power of specialty nursing in the community
• Pauline Therrien, RN, BScN, MN
• Michelle Pothier, RN, BN, MN
• Nurse practitioner-led outpatient wound care clinic for individuals living with spinal cord injury in Ontario
• Marynell Laguna, RN, BScN, MN/NP
• Empowering community health nurses: a national Delphi study to update the Canadian community health nursing standards
• Dr. Cheryl Cusack, RN, PhD, FCAN
• Driving systemic change: strengthening specialty community nursing practice through entry-level competencies
• Dr. Cheryl Cusack, RN, PhD, FCAN

Panel

• Bridging the information gap: how nurses can use social media to promote health equity and combat misinformation
• Tina Bitangcol, RN, BSN, PNC(C), CBS
• Mind the disruption podcast: mobilizing stories to advance action on the determinants of health and health equity
• Dr. Claire Betker, RN, PhD, FCAN, CCHN(C)
• Embedding digital professionalism in nursing education: advancing integrity, accountability, and privacy in ethical practice
• Dr. Kateryna Metersky, PhD, RN

PechaKucha presentations

• Exploring the prevalence and magnitude of implicit anti-Indigenous bias among intensive care unit (ICU) health-care workers in Alberta
• Alan Han, RN, BScN
• * From entering the profession to gradual attrition: understanding why Quebec nurses with two to five years of experience leave the profession
• Clément Garceau, RN, MScN
• * Relational health: an underrecognized lever for addressing social isolation and misinformation
• Claudia-Ève Therriault, BSc
• Invisible care: insurance barriers to independent nursing practice in Canada and a call for system-level change
• Janessa DeCoste, RN, MN, BScN, NC-BC, SGAHN
• Kate Shelest, RN, BSN, SGAHN
• Community-based nursing partnerships to support rural seniors aging in place
• Dr. Sarah Kostiuk, BScN, RN, MN, EdD
• A multi-modal simulation training program for emergency airway management: a pilot study for emergency nurses
• Nayoung Kim, BSN, MSN, KOAPN
• Empowering tomorrow’s workforce: nurse-led evaluation of the clinical extern program to strengthen practice readiness and workforce resilience
• Dr. Charissa Cordon, RN, BScN, MN, EdD, CHE
• Empowered health: exploring the digital health journey of First Nations
• Nadia Green, RN, BN, MN
• Caregivers at the table: how caregiver‑centric policy development showcases the full value of nurse leadership and strengthens health systems
• Clara Dyck RN, BSN, MSN, CHPCN(C)

Interactive Workshop

• The evidence doesn’t bleed. The patient does. Forensic nursing beyond the kit: where specialized trauma care strengthens every clinical setting
• Adrienne Olszewski, RN(C), MN, BScN, BA (Hons Psych), AC (Emergency, Forensic), SANE-A, SANE-P, LNC
• Ashley Stewart, MSN, BScPN,  RPN (AP), SANE-A, SANE-P

Interactive Workshop

Welcome Remarks | Concurrent Stream Sponsor

• (C2i) Demystifying the disability tax credit: unleashing nursing leadership in disability justice
• Erica Zacharias, RPN, DPN

Panel

• Nurse leaders applying an AI lens to co-create optimal work environments
• Jessica Burford, PhD(c), RN, R/TRO, BScHK (Hons), MN-LPNP, GNC(C), CCNE, CHE, CNLC(C)
• Virtual reality innovations for distressing auditory hallucination: compassion-focused CBT
• Lisa Murata, RN, BScN, MEd
• Haley Ashe, RN, BScN, MEd
• Reorganizing nursing through technology leadership: an intelligence-enabled community care model
• Dr. Joseph Andrew Pepito, PhD, MAN, BScN
• From mHealth to AI-enabled oncology care: development of a nurse-led digital innovation for women with breast cancer in Canada
• Dr. Oluwadamilare Akingbade, RN, CGNC, PhD

Panel

• From values to practice: developing a harm reduction toolkit to support compassionate, equitable care in hospice and palliative settings
• Felicia Kontopidis, RN, BScN, MN, NP-PHC
• The role of outreach workers for people who use drugs in the Beltline community: a spatial-video narrative analysis from the Strategies for Addressing Needle Debris Study (SANDS)
• Nofar Betzer, BN, RN
• Gabriel Joaquino, BN, RN
• Delivering a harm reduction course at a Canadian university: insights into curriculum and course delivery
• Corey Ranger, RN, BScN, MA
• Vera Caine, RN, BScN, MN, PhD
• Meaghan Brown, RN, BN, PhD
• Centring lived experience as an ethical and social justice imperative in harm reduction education
• Corey Ranger, RN, BScN, MA
• Dr. Vera Caine, RN, BScN, MN, PhD
• Dr. Meaghan Brown, RN, BN, PhD

Panel

• Isolation to influence: revolutionizing B.C. primary care nursing
• Nathalie Méhats, RN
• Caring for the system and caring for nurses: a nurse-led model for primary care transformation
• Karly Crocker, RN, BScN
• Unleashing scope optimization in primary care nursing
• Shannon Moore, RN(c), MSN
• Laying the foundation to optimize the role of the primary care registered nurse within the patient's medical home
• Wendy Singh, RN, BScN, BSc
• Leanne Johnson, RN, PhD

Interactive Workshop

• Conciliation before reconciliation: using digital critical nursography and a seed of good trouble to examine intersections of modern nursing history, nursing education, and critical nursing praxis
• Dr. Margaret Rauliuk, NP(P), MN, EdD, FCAN

Panel

• Designing for disruptive dialogue: flipping the classroom to cultivate student commitment to anti-racism, cultural safety, and social justice
• Andrew Kerr, BSc(N), MSc(A), GCCT
• Affirming and inclusive nursing education for 2SLGBTQIA+ students: from guidelines to action
• Dr. J. Craig Phillips, LLM, PhD, RN, ACRN, FAAN, FCAN
• Dr. Erin Ziegler, PhD, NP-PHC, FNPAC
• Indigenous-nurse led graduate nursing education through a decolonizing policy lens
• Tammy Rogers, RN, MN; Nikki Hunter, RN, MN
• Dr. Vera Caine, RN, MN, PhD
• Nursing education through a cultural lens
• Fabienne Germeil, RN, BScN, MSc(A), PhD student

Panel

• From invisible to indispensable: advancing public health nursing leadership for equity and system transformation
• Dr. Cheryl Cusack, RN, PhD, FCAN
• Childhood immunization reminder preferences among Black parents in Canada and the United States of America: a scoping review
• Matilda Anim-Larbi, PhD student
• Updating the core competencies for public health in Canada: a shared leadership journey
• Dr. Claire Betker, RN, PhD, CCHN(C), FCAN
• Health service use among Black people in Canada
• Dr. Bukola Salami, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN

Panel

• Unifying the nurse psychotherapist role across Canada
• Dr. Siobhan Bell, RN, MN, DNP
• Stacey Roles, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD
• Building forensic mental health nursing competence
• Seonhee McDermott, RN, BScN, MScN
• From asylum to integration: harnessing the power of mental health nursing to lead transformative systems of care
• Dr. Michelle Danda, RN, PhD, CPMHN(C)
• * Preventing together: a participatory action research project to prevent suicide among rural adolescent girls aged 14 to 19
• Claudia-Ève Therriault, (UQAR), Étudiante à la maîtrise en sciences infirmières

Panel

• The role of nurse leaders in strengthening Canadian health systems through standardized and robust nursing workforce data: a multi-method approach
• Dr. Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed, RN, BScN, MSN, PhD
• National Council for Nurse-Patient Ratios implementation: interjurisdictional leadership collaboration for practical policy implementation
• Kerry Morrison, RN, BSN, EMBA
• Uberized nursing: how could gig-work style apps impact nursing in Canada?
• Hilary Hall, RN, MN