The Class of ’58 Meets the Current Cohort A historic event took place at the UBC School of Nursing in May 2018 when the students in the current cohort met with graduates of the class of 1958. As part of their 60th reunion celebration (planned to coincide with the 2018 UBC Nursing Celebration Gala), the alumni asked for an opportunity to connect with the current class of students to share their experiences of being a nursing student in the 1950s and…read more
The 6th Annual Symposium On May 2nd, 2018, the Graduate Student Nurses Association hosted their sixth symposium, Nurses as Emerging Leaders in Research, Education, and Practice. The symposium provides an opportunity for graduate students to practice their presentation skills by sharing innovative projects, scholarship, and research in a dynamic, interactive, and supportive setting. No project is too big or too small. Students in graduate and undergraduate programs in nursing and other health-related fields presented their posters and oral presentations in the Golden Jubilee Room at the I. K. Barber Learning…read more
The Director’s full announcements are online: bit.ly/touchpointsx Joanne Ricci retired from the UBC School of Nursing after more than 40 years as a faculty member. Joanne likely holds the school record as the longest serving tenured faculty member in our nearly 100 years as a School, and such dedication is worth acknowledging — especially as she continued to work for the School nearly full-time for another five months after retiring on December 31st, 2017! Catherine (Cathy) Ebbehoj is one of our marvellous alumni; having completed both her BSN (1975) and…read more
Dr Colleen Varcoe | Selected as a recipient of the UBC Killam Research Prize in recognition of her outstanding research and scholarly contributions, Dr Varcoe is a renowned researcher in violence against women and equitable health care. She has made substantial inroads in our understanding of the health consequences of violence, including policy and trauma-informed care. She has also informed the measurement of discrimination and advancement of cultural safety in Canadian health care. Dr Varcoe received her prize at an annual awards reception hosted by the Office of the Vice-President,…read more
A Youth Creative Arts Knowledge Translation Project “It’s been really stressful for me, and I think it was really avoidable in a lot of ways.” “We suffer a lot and it’s really, really difficult.” “It absolutely sucks. I don’t know how to put it… it kind of eats away at you.” This is how trans youth describe their experiences when facing barriers to accessing needed hormone therapy in BC. The Trans Youth Hormone Therapy Decision Making Study explores how trans youth and their parents make decisions about initiating hormone therapy…read more
115 BSN graduates tipped their cap to the Chancellor on May 31, 2018. Also crossing the stage were two MPH/MSN grads, ten MHLP graduates, 15 MSN graduates, 16 MNNP Graduates, and three PhD Nursing graduates. Celebrations continued at the Robert H Lee Alumni Centre. This year, each recipient of the Outstanding Completion Project Award receives the J Kirstine Griffith Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Nursing to recognize their outstanding contribution to nursing research and scholarship. The award has been made available through an endowment established by the Estate of Braham Griffith…read more
Student Synthesis Projects The School of Nursing’s Synthesis Project is a course requirement that brings student research out of the theoretical and into the real world. Within an imposed time frame, students design, develop, and sometimes implement (in partnership with health care programs and partners), projects that address challenges of nursing practice and lived experience of patients and families. Each year the students are given an opportunity to display and discuss their projects with one another and with guests. This year’s Synthesis Forum took place in the School of Nursing…read more
Film Festival A full house at the Chan Centre’s Royal Bank Cinema enthusiastically engaged with Elder Roberta Price of the Snuneymuxw and Cowichan First Nations as she opened the second annual Edge Film Festival with her story and her blessings. The films selected for the evening not only reveal work in which the School of Nursing has partnered, but also exhibit striking and dynamic ways of bringing research to life for the diverse audience of academics, artists, and fans. The first film, New Frames, is based on a research study…read more
May 2018 Through an unusual set of circumstances, this year all five awards were given to alumni of the school at the annual gala held at the Robert H Lee Alumni Centre. The 2018 Community Partnership Award, which is normally not limited to alumni, was delivered into the hands of alumna Candy Garossino (MSN ‘91). She has been a long-term visionary nursing leader in Providence Health Care who strongly advocates for our students researching there. Candy has been and continues to be a wonderful champion of our programs, encouraging nurses…read more
5th Annual Nursing History Symposium The 2018 symposium, In Search of Nursing’s History, was held on March 8th in the Woodward Library’s Sherrington Room with panel presentations on emerging research techniques that are currently available to users of the UBC Library system. Each presentation reflected on the ways in which nursing history has been and is preserved, made accessible, and used in research. Geertje Boschma, who, with Catherine Haney, has consistently been the contact and host for the Nursing History Symposium, opened the event and introduced both Katherine Miller, Nursing…read more
