Professional Development: Upcoming Events

  • April 17, 2025

    General Meeting

    4:00-5:30

    Speaker: Lisa Maks, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Diabetes, Providence Health Care

    What’s Weight Got To Do With It?:
    A Review of Current Obesity Guidelines

    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

    NOTE TIME: 6:00PM-8:00PM

    Speaker: to be announced

    Clinical Nurse Specialist

    Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Policy Recommendations

    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: 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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  • 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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  • February 20, 2025

    Thank you for a great meeting!

    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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Specialty and CNS Led Conferences

  • 2025 Spotlight on Diabetes Conference

    Don’t miss out on this great opportunity! Register Today!

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

    contact PJ Matras @ webmaster@cnsabc.ca

Past Events

  • 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

  • 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!

    View the presentation here

    Past Event: September 19. 2024

  • 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.

    View the presentation here

    Past event June 20, 2024

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Recording available

    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!

    Recording available

    Past Event: November 25, 2023

  • 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