Professional Development: Upcoming Events
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February 20, 2025
General Meeting
Shaping Our Future: Constitution and Bylaws Draft Consultation
4:00-5:30
Session Summary
Join us as we present CNSABC's updated draft constitution and bylaws, crafted with member feedback and best practices, and engage in dialogue to shape our organizational processes and values.Session Description
CNSABC has been working diligently to update our organizational constitution and bylaws, incorporating member feedback and research into best practices. This session invites all members to review the draft, address outstanding questions such as the attributes of voting members and decision-making processes, and explore our proposal to shift from Robert's Rules to a more inclusive approach using democratic rules of order and consensus decision-making. Your voice matters—help shape the future of our organization!Member only meeting from 4:00-5:30pm
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April 17, 2025
General Meeting
4:00-5:30
Speaker: Lisa Maks, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Diabetes, Providence Health Care
Update on Diabetes Management
You do not have to be a member to join the presentation!
Presentation from 4:00-4:45; member only meeting from 4:45-5:30pm
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AGM June 19, 2025
4:00-5:30
Speaker: Shannon Paul-Jost
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Measuring Quality of Care in Long Term Care
You do not have to be a member to join the presentation!
Presentation from 4:00-4:45; member only meeting from 4:45-5:30pm
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September 18, 2025
General Meeting
Speaker: to be announced soon
You do not have to be a member to join the presentation!
Presentation from 4:00-4:45; member only meeting from 4:45-5:30pm
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November 20, 2025
General Meeting
Speaker: to be announced soon
You do not have to be a member to join the presentation!
Presentation from 4:00-4:45; member only meeting from 4:45-5:30pm
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Specialty and CNS Led Conferences
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2024 National Conference Leading Change: The Future of Mental Health and Substance Use Nursing in Canada
November 19-22, 2024
Ottawa-Gatineau | Hilton Lac-Leamy
Conference Objectives: The overall goal of the conference is to provide a forum for highlighting innovations in practice, education, research and policy development in mental health and substance use nursing in Canada and globally.
CNS submission: Cynthia Russell, RN, MN, CPMHN, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Mental Health, FNHA
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Pacific Pain Forum 2025: New Horizons in Pain Care
April 4, 2025
Join us at the Pacific Pain Forum! An incredible interdisciplinary pain conference welcoming all healthcare professionals and individuals with lived experience!
Keynote Presentations from Dr. Nel Wieman and Canadian Pain Society President Dr. Hance Clarke
Don’t miss out, Register today!
CNS Led: PJ Matras, CNS Pain Management, PHC
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Let us know about your Specialty & CNS led conferences here
contact PJ Matras @ webmaster@cnsabc.ca
Past Events
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Mary Ann Maclean, CNS Skin, Wound and Ostomy
Speaker: Mary Ann Maclean, Clinical Nurse Specialist Skin, Wound and Ostomy Interior Health
Standardization of Wound Care Across a Health Authority
Thank you for such a great presentation! Please check back here for link to presentation shortly
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A CNS Led Strategy Improving Serious Illness Conversations (SIC) and a Palliative Approach to Care in a Canadian Health Authority
Thank you so much for an amazing presentation!
Past Event: September 19. 2024
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On the Learning Journey: Indigenous Cultural Safety in Practice
Join CNSABC as we learn from Jessica Key and Atussa Behnam-Shabahang about the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Indigenous Cultural Safety and how we all can work to make our healthcare system a safer environment.
Past event June 20, 2024
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Transforming Healthcare Systems Together: Nursing Leadership and Reconciliation
Presented by: Becky Palmer, PHD, MsN, RN, Chief & VP People, Nursing and Health Professions Officer and Harmony Johnson, MHA, BA, VP, Indigenous Wellness Reconciliation, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC
Please take the opportunity to view this can’t miss presentation.
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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.
Past event: January 2024
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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!
Past Event: November 25, 2023
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RN/RPN Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Therapy in Interior Health, BC
CNSABC March 2023 Webinar
Amanda Lavigne, CNS Substance Use Team, MHSU Network, IHA
Past event March 2023
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Patient-Centered Rehabilitation in the ICU
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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.
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Redeployment & Team Nursing. How we restructured Critical Care Services to Adapt to a Pandemic.
Vininder K Bains, CNS Critical Care PHC
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How Clinical Nurse Specialists Can Promote Anti-Racism in the Health Care System
Dr. Dzifa Dordunoo RN, PhD & Natania Abebe RN, MsN/MPH(c)