Professional Development: Upcoming Events

  • CNS Think Tank Forging Role Clarity, Credentials, & Title Protection

    Thank you to all who attended CNS Think Tank. The work has begun!

    Check back here for our AGM coming June 2024

Specialty and CNS Led Conferences

  • Let us know about your Specialty & CNS led conferences here

    contact PJ Matras @ webmaster@cnsabc.ca

  • Integrating Pain Care

    April 12, 2024

    Join us at the Pacific Pain Forum! An incredible interdisciplinary pain conference welcoming all healthcare professionals and individuals with lived experience!

    Keynote Presentations from Honourable Adrian Dix, Minister of Health (BC) and Canadian Pain Society President Dr. John Pereira.

    UBC CPD Accredited for 5.5 Mainpro+ credits

    Register today at: Pacific Pain Forum

    CNS Led: PJ Matras, CNS Pain Management, PHC

  • 2024 Spotlight on Diabetes Conference

    Self-Management Strategies

    April 12, 2024

    Are you a healthcare provider who wants to learn more about diabetes? This is your conference!

    Target audience: RN, RPN, NP, CNS, RD, Pharmacist, Kinesiologist, social Work, Speech Language Pathologist, Physiotherapist, Occupational therapist (in and out-patient).

    Register today at: eventbrite

    CNS Led: Lisa Maks, CNS Diabetes, PHC

Past Events

  • Victoria Casas-Alcuaz, MSN, RN, CCRP, IHI Fellow

    Elevating the CNS Role in System Changes Across the Care Continuum.

    Victoria Casas-Alcuaz, MSN, RN, CCRP, IHI Fellow

    Amazing Presentation from Victoria in January.

    Recordings available soon.

    Check back here for access to this incredible presentation.

    Past event: January 2024

  • Jacqueline Forman, CNS Heart Rhythm Program PHC

    Promoting research and knowledge translation competencies of clinical nurse specialists: Strategies to close the gap between practice and evidence

    Jacqueline Forman, CNS Heart Rhythm Program, Providence Health Care

    Thank you for such an amazing presentation!

    Recordings will be available soon! Check back here!

    Past Event: November 25, 2023

  • CNS Canadian Conference May 2023

    Check out the conference brochure

    Thank you to our speakers, elders, delegates and organizers. Let’s continue the work to Change Health Care Systems to Embed Cultural Safety and Humility; Acting to Decolonize Healthcare Systems together.

    From lessons learned, please review the In Plain Sight Full Report.

    Special thank you to the Syilx/Okanagan peoples for hosting us on your traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan peoples.

  • RN/RPN Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Therapy in Interior Health, BC

    CNSABC March 2023 Webinar

    Amanda Lavigne, CNS Substance Use Team, MHSU Network, IHA

    Recording available

    Past event March 2023

  • Patient-Centered Rehabilitation in the ICU

    Allana LeBlanc RN, MSN, CNCC(C), CNS ICU and HAU, VGH

    Recording available

    Past event Jan. 2023

  • The toxic drug poisoning crisis and caring for people who use substances: Innovation in nursing care

    Dr. Elizabeth Dogherty, PhD, CNS Substance Use Program & Naomi Watt, Substance Use Nurse Educator at Providence Health Care.

    Past event Nov. 2022

  • Redeployment & Team Nursing. How we restructured Critical Care Services to Adapt to a Pandemic.

    Vininder K Bains, CNS Critical Care PHC

    Past event Sept. 2022

  • How Clinical Nurse Specialists Can Promote Anti-Racism in the Health Care System

    Dr. Dzifa Dordunoo RN, PhD & Natania Abebe RN, MsN/MPH(c)

    Past event Mar. 2022