Program

7:00 am

• Opening Remarks by Dr. David Eidelman, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs); Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
• Word of Welcome from the McGill Nursing Collaborative Partners

Keynote Address: Vanessa Burkoski, RN, PhD, Chief Nursing Executive, Humber River Hospital 
Reforming Patient Safety - Nurses in Action
Patient safety is at the core of Nursing. To elevate patient safety, nurses need to develop and enhance formal and informal advocacy strategies. Dr. Burkoski will share her thoughts, ideas, and impressions about the skill set nurses can develop to more confidently take action to reform patient safety.

Keynote Address: Régine Laurent, RN, Analyst, TVA
Le pouvoir aux infirmières! Utiliser notre rapport de force pour changer les choses et améliorer les soins

Keynote Address: Mike Villeneuve, RN, CEO, Canadian Nurses Association 
Better Health, Better Care, Better Value — A Nursing Call to Action
Public polls tell us that Canadians have higher expectations of health care than any other public service. And the vast majority expect health care professionals to exert a strong role in improving health systems. The public has high trust in nurses but also very high expectations: they want attentive, communicative, engaged and individualized care—as well as informed political action—from their nurses. Steven Lewis has argued that nursing’s combination of numbers, reputation and reach should translate into power and influence over how health care is financed, organized and delivered. Yet politically, he says, the profession punches below its weight, and the country is the worse for it. In his multi-media presentation today, Michael Villeneuve will use evidence, humour and experience to push all of us in nursing to act as an effective political force in the effort to achieve better health, better care and better value for Canadians

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Scholarly Poster Session

Keynote Address: Barbara Sattler, RN, MPH, Professor of Public Health, University of San Francisco
Nurses Shaping the Health of Our Environments

Interactive Panel Discussion 
Moderator: Royal Orr