May 24, 2024
UCalgary Nursing brings large contingent to Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing conference
Next week, nursing educators, researchers and students from across Canada will be in Calgary for the 2024 CASN Biennial Canadian Nursing Education Conference and representation from UCalgary Nursing is stronger than ever.
In addition to being a prestige sponsor for this year’s conference, the faculty’s graduate students, alumni, faculty and staff are prominent presenters at CASN. Dr. Heather Bensler, assistant dean, academic partnerships, is co-chair of this year’s conference and Dr. Sandra Davidson, dean, is also a volunteer and moderator.
This year’s theme is Transforming Nursing Education: Unlearning, Disrupting, & (Re)Learning.
“Our goal is to create a forum for nurse educators to critically reflect on the ways things have been done and dismantle and disrupt beliefs, practices, and structures that uphold colonial violence, oppression, and power,” says Bensler.
This event, held at the Westin Calgary May 27 to 28, will bring together those working in nursing education to share research, innovations and best practices, all with the goal of transforming the education of the next generation of Canadian nurses.
Sessions at the conference will explore dismantling harmful colonial legacies, taking action to promote social justice and equity, fostering diversity and inclusion and re-imagining nursing within an evolving societal and technological context.
Several Indigenous Elders affiliated with UCalgary Nursing including Doreen Spence and Herman Yellow Old Woman will be onsite to open the conference and to provide cultural care support and a few undergraduate nursing students will volunteering in Elder support roles. On both days, Amanda Loates and Dr. Jacqueline Smith from UCalgary Nursing’s Mental Health and Wellness Clinic are also offering conference attendees mental health support.
Here’s a summary of the presentations offered by the UCalgary Nursing community:
Monday, May 27
- Welcome Indigenous opening prayer
Elder Doreen Spence and Elder Herman Yellow Old Woman
Presentations by UCalgary Nursing faculty and students
- Academic Success in Non-University-Affiliated Polytechnic Nursing Programs
Harroop Sharda - Exploring the Evaluation of Leadership Competencies in Undergraduate Nursing Education: A Scoping Review
Jodie Steffan - A virtual caring competency framework for nursing education
Lorelli Nowell
Sara Dolan - Improving students’ confidence to support mental health: An interprofessional virtual simulation for therapeutic communication
Amanda O’Rae
Michelle Cullen
Melissa Eastveld - UPLIFT (Undergraduate Peer Leadership in Family Nursing Teams): a cross institutional educational innovation in peer mentorship
Diana Snell - This Storied Place: From pre-contact to resurgence, a participatory activity
Michelle Scott
Heather Bensler - Examining the experience of recurrent acute coronary syndrome in younger men
Nancy Clark
Tuesday, May 28
- Two-Eyed Seeing in Nursing Education: Understanding the experience of stigma in Métis mothers with Alcohol Use Disorder
Melissa Eastveld - Iiyikinaami: Lessons learned from the BN Program at Old Sun Community College
Heather Bensler
Michelle Scott
Debbie Smith, Old Sun Community College
Kim Halliday - Building the case for co-collaborative case studies: connecting family nursing to students lived experiences
Diana Snell
Amanda O’Rae - A Peer Mentor Program for Undergraduate Nursing Students' Mental Health
Jodie Steffan
Kimberly Shapkin
Amanda Loates - Grounded theory about nursing students learning transfer from classroom to clinical practice: implications for nursing education
Sandra Carless-Kane
Lorelli Nowell - Transforming teaching and learning experiences in nursing education using Turk Talks Tanis Robinson, University of Regina
Michelle Cullen - Transdisciplinary work integrated learning: An innovative approach to virtual clinical practice
Stacy Oke
Amanda O’Rae - Embodying Kisêwâtisiwin
Michelle Scott
Heather Bensler
Grandmother Doreen Spence - Educating for an evolving context at Alberta Health Services: the registered nurse prescribing initiative
Kirnvir Dhaliwal, Alberta Health Sciences
Julia Hews-Girard, Alberta Health Sciences - The Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA): The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Platform and Women’s and Girls’ Health Hub
Nicole Letourneau - Addressing increasing acuity in healthcare: an innovation in intravenous skills education
Megan Keszler