“Health starts in our neighbourhoods, our homes, our schools and our workplaces.”

The 46th annual Marion Woodward Lecture, graciously supported by Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward’s Foundation and organized by UBC School of Nursing was held on November 6, 2013 at UBC Robson Square. Dr. Josephine Etowa, an Associate Professor and Loyer DaSilva Research Chair in Public Health Nursing, in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa was invited. Dr. Etowa’s evening talk, “Strengthening Leadership in Community Health Nursing and Collaborative Partnerships” gathered a range of audience members, including alumni, practicing nurses, students and faculty and was part of two events organized for the day by the School of Nursing.

Dr. Etowa’s lecture, examined and discussed the kind of lleadership needed in community health nursing and outlined effective collaborative partnerships including the processes, activities, and relationships necessary to deal with the challenge of collaboration. She concluded with a discussion of
the vital role that community health nurses play in promoting innovation in community health practice and collaborative leadership.

Prior to the evening event, the School hosted an afternoon nursing symposium, “Envisioning the Future: Promoting and Sustaining Excellence in Community Health Nursing,” Five nursing leaders in professional practice shared their varied experiences of community health nursing, followed by a lively dialogue between the panel and audience.

For the 2014 Marion Woodward Lecture, the School of Nursing has invited Dr. Bonnie Stevens, a professor and the Signy Hildur Eaton Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the University of Toronto. Dr. Stevens’ discussion will be related to implementation science and effective knowledge translation strategies and how nurses’ can work to change and maintain health care providers’ behaviours and promote patients and family outcomes. The School of Nursing welcomes all to this event.