Professional Development: Upcoming Events

  • AGM June 19, 2025

    NOTE TIME CHANGE: 3:00-5:00PM

    AGM member only meeting from 3:00-3:45

    Presentation from 3:45-4:45pm - you do not need to be a member to join the presentation

    Presentation: Strengthening CNS Leadership in BC: Advancing Policy Through CNSABC Collaboration

    Speakers:

    Jagbir Kaur, MN, Clinical Nurse Specialist Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation BC Cancer

    Leah Lambert, PhD, Executive Director and Senior Scientist, Nursing and Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation, BC Cancer

    You do not have to be a member to join the presentation!

    Microsoft Teams Meeting

    Meeting ID: 226 080 643 628

    Passcode: g6oi36nC

  • 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

    Save the date!

  • 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

    Save the date!

Specialty and CNS Led Conferences

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

    contact PJ Matras @ webmaster@cnsabc.ca

Past Events

  • Lisa Maks, Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist

    What’s weight got to do with it?
    A review of current obesity guidelines

    Thank you for a great presentation

    Please check back here for the link to the presentation shortly.   

  • 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