Conference Agenda

Thursday, April 10, 2025

8:00 – 8:30Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45Welcome Remarks and Conference Opening
8:45 – 9:00Greetings
9:00 – 9:50Keynote Speaker: To be announced
9:50 – 10:10Refreshment Break and Poster/Exhibit Viewing
Concurrent Sessions:
10:10 – 10:40A1: Overhaul of the Nursing Resource Team for a Long Term Sustainable Workforce

Rashmitha Mohanarajah, RN, MScN, BScN
North York General Hospital
B1: Advancing Nursing Practice and Academic Excellence through Clinical Scholarship: The Academic Practice Partnership Model

Charissa Cordon, BScN, MN, EdD
William Osler Health System
C1: A Cross-Functional Approach with Nursing Membership to Better Understand Inpatient Emergency Department Boarding

Paulette Moore, BScN, CON(C), RVH
10:45 – 11:15A2: Advancing Novice Nurse Competency and Building Team Culture Through Mentorship: An NICU Initiative

Lauren Legault, BScN
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
B2: Enhancing Continuing Education in the Intensive Care Unit Using a Simulation-Based Education Program: The Critical Care Mobile Skills and Simulation Cart (CC-MSSC)

Nicole Spence, BNSc, BHSc, MHPE
The Ottawa Hospital
C2: Building from within long-term care and home and community care organizations for retention: Transitions experiences of new graduate nurses

Denise Connelly, PhD, PT
Western University
11:15 – 11:30Stretch Break and Poster/Exhibit Viewing
Concurrent Sessions:
11:30 – 12:00A3: Preparing Canada’s Health Care Systems for Net-Zero: A Nursing Lens

Elizaveta Zvereva, PhD Candidate
Hamilton Family Health Team
B3: Empowering Nurse Educators as Change Agents: A Path to Lasting Impact

Raquel Meyer, BScN, PhD
Baycrest Academy for Research and Education
C3: Advancing Equity and Sustainability Through the Comfort and Safety Bundle

Angie Lim, PhD, MN, BScN, BSc
SickKids Hospital
12:05 – 12:35A4: Supporting Evaluation Capacity: Co-creation of a Logic Model in the Transition Mentorship Program

Kimberly Lawrence, RN, BScN, MN
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
B4: Building Excellence in Clinical Leadership

Sandra Li-James, BScN, MEd.
VHA Home HealthCare
C4: Advancing Safety Through Trust and Psychological Safety: Implementing Just Culture at Osler

Jain, BMRSc, MRT(R), MBA
William Osler Health System
12:35 – 13:35Lunch
Concurrent Sessions:
13:35 – 14:05A5: Going back to basics: Mitigating drive-through care through enhanced documentation standards

Agnes Oriade, BScN, MN
SE HEALTH
B5: A Collective Vision for Home Health: Using the Delphi Process to Update Canada’s Home Health Nursing Competencies

Margaret Saari, PhD
SE Research Centre, SE Health
C5: Leadership in Nursing Education: Addressing the TRC Calls to Action

Corrine Lalonde, BScN, MScN
Georgian College
14:10 – 14:40A6: Speaking Up for Safety: A Leadership Toolkit to Foster a Culture of Communication Openness

Laura Pozzobon, BHSc, BNSc, RN, MScHQ, CHE
University Health Network
B6: Redesigning Home Care Nursing Orientation: A Sustainable, Personable, and Nurse-Focused Approach to Learning in a Practice Area Without Walls

Tammy Rooke, RN BScN MN
CarePartners
C6: Fostering Sustainable Change: Developing an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Champion Program to Address Systemic Inequities

Linda Nguyen, BScN, MN
The Hospital for Sick Children
14:40-14:55Stretch Break
14:55 – 15:25A7: Dissemination Strategies for Home Health Nursing Competencies: A Leadership-Driven Approach to Enhancing Practice

Barbara Chyzzy, RN, PhD
Toronto Metropolitan University
B7: Refining Learning Design Practices for Practice-Based Educators: Implementing ADDIE Training to Support the Redevelopment of Clinical Orientation

Jennifer Reguindin, MScN, RN, GNC(C), CCNE
University Health Network
C7: Advancing Sustainable Leadership in Palliative Care: Nurse Practitioner-Led Model and Community Partnerships for Home-Based Palliative and Supportive Care for Frail Seniors

Karen Lock, BScN, MN, NP-ADULT
North York General Hospital
15:30 – 16:20Keynote Speaker: Gender Matters in Creating Sustainable Nursing Leadership
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa
16:20 – 17:30Poster Reception
17:30- 18:00Free Time
18:00Dinner with Dancing

Friday, April 11, 2025

7:30 – 8:00NLN.ON Annual General Meeting
7:00 – 8:30Networking Breakfast
Concurrent Sessions:
8:30 – 9:00D1: Push-pull factors of New Graduate Nurses’ intentions to remain in the profession

Kateryna Metersky, BScN, RN, MN, PhD
Toronto Metropolitan University
E1: Igniting Minds: Shaping the Future of Nursing Education Days

Rinam Ali, RN, BScN, MscN
The Ottawa Hospital
F1: The Admission Transfer Unit: A Sustainable Solution to Empower Change in Emergency Department Flow

Faisal Khan, MN
William Osler Health System
9:05 – 9:35D2: Sustainable Leadership in Action: Exploring Nurse Managers’ Experiences on Integrating Internationally Educated Nurses into Acute Care Setting in Ontario

Naseem Issani, MN- Student
Toronto Metropolitan University
E2: Reimagining Perioperative Nursing Role Optimization: Considerations for Nurse Leaders

Sherry Espin, RN, PhD
Toronto Metropolitan University
F2: Large Scale Nursing Leadership Re-structure

Josee Duewel, BscN, MBA
Dryden Regional Health Center
9:35 – 9:50Refreshment Break
Concurrent Sessions:
9:50 – 10:20D3: Home Care and Academia: Nurse leaders collaborate to grow the PSW Workforce

Katarina Busija, BN, certificate from Harvard Medical School Executive Education on Executing Healthcare Strategy
ParaMed
E3: Building capacity for nursing leadership in Canada: Lessons learned from a professional doctorate program in Nursing

Samantha Mayo, RN, PhD, FAAN
University of Toronto
F3: Coaching & Mentoring, A Nurse Leaders Path to Resiliencesilience

Anne Campbell, MN
Anne Campbell Consulting
10:25 – 10:55D4: Navigating Crisis: Addressing Workforce Challenges in Canada’s Long-Term Care

Farzana Akter, MPH
McMaster University
E4: Fostering Leadership in Quality Improvement: Enhancing Nursing Capacity Through Targeted Education

Krishna Jain, BMRSc, MRT(R), MBA
William Osler Health System
F4: Nurse Leaders Driving Digital Innovation Through Clinical Informatics

Jacqueline Vlahos, BScN, MHM, CHE
SE Health
10:55 – -11:00Stretch Break
Concurrent Sessions:
11:10 – 11:40D5: Sustainable Leadership in Emergency Nursing: Strategies for Supporting New Graduate Nurses

Michael De Wit, BScN, MHI
University Health Network
E5: Eating interprofessional education strategy for breakfast: Team-Authentic Nurse leadership enabling cultural change

Glenn Barton, BScN, MSN, EdD
The Ottawa Hospital
F5: Change Responsiveness – How to turn ‘Resistance’ into Resilience

Nicole Krywionek, RN, MAL-H, pre-Candidacy DNurs
Windsor Regional Hospital
11:45 – 12:15D6: Workplace retention framework for long-term care

Jen Calver, RPN, BAHSc (hons), MHSc, PhD (Candidate), GPNC(c)
Ontario Tech University
E6: Empowering Nurse Leaders in AI-Driven Emergency Department Transformation

Michelle Ladouceur, RN, BScN, MScQIPS (Quality Improvement & Patient Safety)
Humber River Health
F6: Modified-Delphi Approach to the Development of a Novel Toolkit to Support Nursing Shift Assignments in Acute Care Inpatient Units

Natalie Weiser, MA
Unity Health Toronto
12:20 – 1:10Closing Keynote Speaker:
When Machines Talk Back: Nursing and Leadership in an AI-infused Society
Richard Booth, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University London
1:10 – 1:20Closing remarks
1:20 – 2:20Lunch

POSTERS

Poster 1 Adapting to Change: Nursing Educations Role in Supporting System Transformation and Leadership Development
Jennifer Lovering BHSC, BScN, MN, RN Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Poster 2 An innovative pathway to support the transition of internationally educated nurses into the Canadian workplace: a case report
Dilshad Pirani RN, RM, BScN, MN, MBA, PhD (student) Oakvalley Health

Poster 3 Building Leadership Capacity in Front-Line Nursing Council Members
Claudia Wong BScN, MPP Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Poster 4 Clinical Nurse Educators: A Scoping Review on Job Satisfaction
Kateryna Metersky BScN, RN, MN, PhD Toronto Metropolitan University

Poster 5 Collaborative Patient Care: Developing a Nurse-PCA, Team Based Model of Care in Tertiary Care General Psychiatry Department
Mahlon Akhtar BScN, MN Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Poster 6 Designing an Orientation Program that Promotes Nurses’ Competence, Retention and Satisfaction
Stacey Foster Jackson RN, MScN Cambridge Memorial Hospital

Poster 7 Developing Leadership Capacity in a Clinical Nursing Extern Program through Peer Mentorship
Nicole Bradbury, RN, BScN, MScN(c), North York General Hospital

Poster 8 Impact of a nurse led time efficiency project in the electrophysiology (EP) lab in a cardiovascular investigations’ unit of a quaternary care hospital
Tigist Abrahm-Yazew, BScN, UHN, Toronto General Hospital

Poster 9 Implementation of Core Teams within the Women’s & Children’s Program
Amy Dunford, BScN, currently MScN student, Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Poster 10 Innovative Implementation of Nursing Professional Development Days in Neurovascular Stroke Care
Katrina Lazo, BScN, MN, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Poster 11 Leveraging Transformational Leadership Practices within the Team Leader/Charge Nurse Workshop at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Christina Osowski, BScN, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Poster 12 Making Equitable Nurse-Patient Assignments
Diana Polvanov, BScN, MN, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Poster 13 Quality Improvement as the Driver of Change and Leadership
Candace Cho, BN, MN in progress, North York General Hosptial

Poster 14 Reframing Strategies for Nursing Retention: Sharing Collective Leadership Insights from TAHSN Summit
Jane Merkley, BScN, MScN, Sinai Health

Poster 15 Reimagining Experiential Learning for Graduate Nursing Leaders: Pilot Testing of a Virtual Community of Practice Model
Heather Thomson, RN, PhD, University of Toronto

Poster 16 Transforming Education for New Graduate Nurses: The Transition to Independent Practice Support Program
Lorena Lopez, RN, MN, Trillium Health Partners

Poster 17 Using Conversational Artificial Intelligence to enhance virtual reality reminiscence therapy for people with dementia
Winnie Sun, RN, PhD, Ontario Tech University

Poster 18 Virtual Solutions for Real-World Challenges: Sustainable Onboarding and Placements for Nurses with LIPHA
Raquel Meyer, BScN, PhD, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education