National Group
Nursing Now Canada was officially launched on 2nd June 2019 at a multi-stakeholder, international colloquium in Vancouver BC co-hosted by the Canada Nurses Association (CNA) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). We are pleased to announce that Canada was successful with its application and acknowledge the important partnership with the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association.
The kickoff included brief remarks from Nursing Now’s Executive Director Barbara Stilwell, and key members of the Nursing Now Canada team: Claire Betker, President, Canadian Nurses Association, Robin Buckland, CNO of Indigenous Services Canada, and Marilee Nowgesic, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association.
Nursing Now Canada is based on a strong three-point action plan with a nursing leadership pillar, a Chief Nursing Officers (CNO) pillar, and an Indigenous pillar – please find versions of the plan linked here: English version, French version. Each pillar has a distinct goal and activities and will form the basis of the work of Nursing Now Canada. For more information or comments on the plan, please contact: NNCanada@cna-aiic.ca
Local Groups
Local Nursing Now groups are springing up across Canada, so check back here for updates if there isn’t yet one listed near you.
- SE Health – Contact Kaiyan Fu: KaiyanFu@sehc.com
- NursEd – Contact Gillian Elmes: gillian@nursEd.ca
- Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario – Contact Heather McConnell: hmcconnell@RNAO.ca
- University of British Columbia School of Nursing – Contact Elizabeth Saewyc: elizabeth.saewyc@ubc.ca
- University of the Fraser Valley – Contact Catherine Smith: catherine.smith@ufv.ca
- York University – Contact Meredith Weaver: meredithweaver16@gmail.co
- Veterans Affairs Canada – Contact Donna Davis, National Nursing Officer: donna.davis@canada.ca
- Thompson Rivers University – Contact Heather Correale, Faculty Lecturer: hcorreale@tru.ca
- Association of Registered Nurses of Manitoba – Contact Mary Smith, Executive Director: msmith@arnm.ca
- BCIT – Contact Amanda Egert, Faculty: amanda_egert@bcit.ca
- Mount Royal University – Contact Elizabeth Van Den Kerkhof, Director of School of Nursing and Midwifery: evandenkerkhof@mtroyal.ca
- Sturgeon Lake First Nation – Contact Norma Rabbitskin, Midwifery Program Lead: nrabbitskin@slhc.ca
- Quebec Nurses Association (Association Québécoise des infirmières et infirmiers) – Contact Natalie Stake-Doucet, President: natalie.stake-doucet@mail.mcgill.ca
- Mount Royal University – Contact Elizabeth Van Den Kerkhof, Director of School of Nursing and Midwifery: evandenkerkhof@mtroyal.ca