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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
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
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