2010 Program

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Keynote Presentations

Getting to Maybe: Nurses as Social Innovators - Brenda Zimmerman;, Director of the Health Industry Management Program and Associate Professor of Strategy/Policy, Schulich School of Business, York University

Nursing: Where to From Here? - Mary Ferguson-Pare; Vice President, Professional Affairs and Chief Nurse Executive, University Health Network

Plenary Workshop Strategies

Moving Forward Strategy #1

Moving Foward Strategy #2 

Concurrent Session Presentation

Transitioning from Student to Graduate Nurse: Perspectives of new graduates and employers - C Anderson, A Brennan-Hunter & N Snow 

We're All In This Together: A collaborative approach to enhancing nursing leadership skills - L Barbour, S Bellaire, R DiBiase, V Wynn, M Marchand, K McCann & J Simanovski

Fostering Leadership Amongst New Nurses: Reflections from the New Nurses Leadership Group (NNLG) - I Gobin, A Harris, M Kubura, V Vikmanis & E Zhang 

Better Together: The potential for peer support in nursing transition to practice - H Hall, SG Ardley, J Haywood-Farmer, C Liston, L Smyth & KM Tompkins

Enhanced Orientation and Transition for New Graduate Nurses in Nova Scotia - J Hazelton, J Brown, J Kaffer, S Christie, V Eden & P Bellefontaine

Research to Action: Applied workplace solutions for nurses - lessons learned from the Nunavut Mentorship Program Pilot Project - M Malott & F Montpetit 

Second Life: An ideal learning environment to provide transition knowledge - C McPhee, A Wood & C Mallette 

Interprofessional Collaboration and the New Graduate Nurse - K Pfaff

Take a Walk in My Shoes - M Recchia, J Windsor & M Simas 

Sense of Belonging for Undergraduate Nursing Students Marked by Significant Events: A qualitative descriptive study - M Sedgwick & J Rougeau

New Graduate Transition and Support - T Sheppard, L Mackeen, J Williams, J Gerrits & A Dunphy 

New Nurse Partnerships: The role of the Clinical Resource Nurse - C Simonson & C McGeough 

GPS (Growing Practice Specialists): An innovative strategy for integration of new graduate nurses into mental health and addictions - L Slodan & R Srivastava 

Strategies to Ease the Transition of Newly Graduated Nurses - J Wells, M Manuel & G Cunning

Student Organized Career and Leadership Development Initiative - J Woodward & J Vince

New Graduate Workshops

The New Grad: Lack of experience, not lack of ability - H Dickie & P Nguyen

Nursing Practice: Shift happens - J Foley & N Nanowski 

Fitting In, Being Heard - R Fraser & A Khan

Been there...Done that...But have you got the picture? - K Harris & S Andre 

Finding the Right Job for You - M Wheeler, J Waddell & A Harris

Poster Presentations

Demystifying APA through E-learning - S Andre, G Low & W Kelly

A Welcoming Orientation to Nursing in the ER - AM Cohen

An Innovative Approach to Integrating New Graduate Nurses into Perinatal Nursing - L Glaude, R Macleod, A Gilmour & MA Beduz

Cardiac Nursing Continuing Education: Development, implementation, and evaluation of an E-learning module in a hospital setting - C Kangudie, L Fowler, V Dovgan & L Toth

Developing Leadership Amongst Generation Y Nurses Through Formal Research Opportunities - M Kubura, L Ciobotaru, L Jovanovic & R Espiritu

Leading the Transformation of Care at the Bedside to Reduce Falls - K McCullough, R Petrakos & G Bulcke

Using Simulation to Integrate New Graduates into the Workplace - C Morash & A Ryzynski

Preceptors' Emotional Intelligence and the Socialization of New Graduate Nurses during a Preceptorship Program - M Lalonde, L McGillis Hall, D Doran & S Cote

Patients and Families First: Partnering to Advance Patient-Centred Care - R Longmoore & L LeMoal

Preparing the Preceptor: Fostering an interprofessional multigenerational approach to integrating new clinicians into practice - MT Reyes, E Budd, A Martin & A Giallonardo

Practice Education Plan (PEP): A pathway linking the transitional gaps between academic knowledge and clinical competence by clarification of the scope of practice and core competencies of the interprofessional team to meet practice setting expectations - MT Reyes & O Vuksic

Enhancing Leadership Roles - S Ryan & GMW Kwan

How Union Activism and Nursing Professionalism Go Hand in Hand - J Shannon & R Haynes

An Orientation Handbook for New Hires - B Won & C Markin

Research to Action: Applied workplace solutions for nurses projects - A Wortsman