CASN is seeking full time nursing faculty members to fulfill this important role for baccalaureate, nurse practitioner, internationally educated and practical nurse accreditation programs. Potential accreditation reviewers for this call are:

To apply, please review the information and complete the application form in the accreditation section of the CASN website and send it with your CV to Joni Boyd, Managing Director, Accreditation & Evaluation. Orientation sessions will occur in the winter of 2021.

APPEL DE CANDIDATURES 

Pour soumettre votre candidature, veuillez remplir le formulaire qui se trouve à la section Agrément du site web de l’ACESI, et le faire parvenir avec votre CV à l’attention de Joni Boyd, directrice principale, agrément et évaluation. Les séances d’orientation auront lieu à l’hiver 2021.

The Digital Health Interest Group would like to invite you to join an upcoming webinar titled "Canadian Nurse Educators Shaping the Future of Digital Health" on April 7 from 12:00 to 13:00 PM EST.

Le groupe d’intérêt de l’ACESI sur la santé numérique vous invite à vous joindre au prochain webinaire (offert en anglais) intitulé « Les infirmières enseignantes canadiennes qui façonnent l’avenir de la santé numérique », qui aura lieu le 7 avril de midi à 15 h, HNE.

The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing is conducting an evaluation of the five virtual simulation games developed in partnership with the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators Using Simulation (CAN-Sim). The games present five scenarios that include the use of personal protective equipment and practice modifications currently in use to prevent and control COVID-19 infections. Topics presented include care of a ventilated patient, multiple organ dysfunction, fluid volume deficit in a geriatric patient, respiratory distress, and cardiac arrest. Click here to access the COVID-19 skills games.

If you have completed at least one game, we would appreciate if you could take 15 minutes to share your feedback in an evaluation survey. The survey will be open until Monday, April 5, 2021.

Click here to complete the survey.

L’Association canadienne des écoles en sciences infirmières procède actuellement à l’évaluation des cinq jeux de simulation virtuelle créés en partenariat avec la Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators Using Simulation (CAN-Sim). Ces jeux présentent cinq scénarios qui impliquent le port d’équipement de protection individuel (EPI) et des modifications aux pratiques usuelles en lien avec la pandémie de la COVID-19 et les infections associées. Les scénarios concernent diverses interventions, incluant : soigner un patient ventilé, syndrome de défaillance multiorganique (SDMO), déficit hydroélectrique en gériatrie, détérioration respiratoire et arrêt cardiaque. Cliquez ici pour accéder aux jeux virtuels en lien avec la COVID-19.

Si vous avez terminé au moins un jeu de simulation virtuelle, nous vous serions reconnaissants de prendre une quinzaine de minutes pour nous donner votre opinion dans le cadre d’un sondage. Le sondage sera ouverte jusqu’au lundi 5 avril 2021.

Cliquez ici pour participer au sondage.

CASN is pleased to announce that a free, open-access e-resource that will address the learning outcomes contained in the Guidelines for Undergraduate Nursing Education on Climate-Driven Vector-Borne Diseases will be released this spring. Ultimately, CASN aims to support nurse educators in preparing future nurses to care for individuals, families, communities, and populations affected by, or at risk of being affected by, climate-driven VBDs. More...

L’ACESI est heureuse d’annoncer qu’une ressource électronique gratuite à accès libre pour aborder les résultats d’apprentissage figurant dans les Lignes directrices de formation infirmière de premier cycle sur les maladies à transmission vectorielle liées à la variabilité climatique sera diffusée ce printemps. L’objectif de l’ACESI est de soutenir les infirmières enseignantes afin qu’elles puissent préparer les infirmières futures à soigner les individus, les familles, les communautés et les populations touchés ou risquant d’être touché par les MTV liées à la variabilité climatique. Suite...

This comprehensive text offers essential information for excelling in the Canadian academic nurse educator role. Experienced academic educators, as well as novice instructors in nursing education, will find foundational and current practice concepts that include philosophy, learning theories, course and curriculum development, program evaluation, teaching-learning strategies, simulation, interprofessional and intraprofessional approaches, diversity and the indigenous learner, assessment and evaluation techniques, leadership, mentorship, and scholarship. The content reflects the Canadian Association Schools of Nuring (CASN) standards for excellence for undergraduate and undergraduate academic nurse educators and assists the reader with preparing for the Canadian Certified Nurse Educator (CCNE) Certification examination.

This is our first opportunity to update CASN members about what is happening at Nursing the Future (NTF)! NTF provides a national support platform for newly graduated practical, psychiatric and registered nurses, and those who support their educational and occupational needs! Funded by the Canadian Nurses Foundation COVID19 Nurses Fund, and with administrative support from the Canadian Nurses Association, we are able to offer all our resources FREE of charge to subscribers! Our mandate is to have students, graduates, and supporters understand the experience of professional role transition for new nurses and feel supported in overcoming the challenges of professional role transition, especially given the barriers of COVID-19.

Since our launch in November 2020, we have worked to engage our subscribers with over a dozen distinct support strategies. To date, one of our most popular strategies with students and new graduates has been our synchronous CONNECT sessions on the topic of licensing exam preparation, with hundreds of students from all scopes of practice in attendance each session! Upcoming sessions include optimizing resilience and dealing with stress as a student and new nurse and NCLEX and CPNRE examination preparation (including licensing preparation for Quebec graduates). These sessions, presented by industry professionals and facilitated by NTF, are available for practical and registered nurses. Attendees have reported high levels of satisfaction with all the sessions, emphasizing their appreciation for the ability to ask questions of those in the know. Finally, please NOMINATE a new graduate supporter for the TORCH Award (click on above poster to see enlarged version)!!!

For more information, please visit www.nursingthefuture.ca to explore our full range of resources, get involved, and subscribe!

These 5-days workshops are designed to prepare health sciences researchers, clinicians, librarians, graduate students and other individuals involved in quality and practice portfolios to develop, conduct, and report systematic reviews of evidence. The two workshops will be offered online, in April and in June.