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In the post-pandemic world, healthcare professionals face unprecedented uncertainty and labour shortages, impacting schools, educators, and healthcare leaders. They must quickly prepare and educate tomorrow's workforce without optimal strategies.

To ensure a successful future for our healthcare system, educators require innovative curriculum designs to support and promote practice-ready nurses committed to person-centred care. During this edition of the Gerri MacEwen Memorial Lecture in Nursing, we will start the discussion to consider how nursing at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ will capture the art of the possible to cultivate these leaders of the future.

¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ the speakers

Dr. Shelley Cobbett

Shelley Cobbett has been a nurse educator for over 35 years. Her clinical background is maternal child nursing, and her doctoral work focused on curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation. Most of her research for the past 15 years has been related to the scholarship of teaching and learning, face-to-face, online, hybrid, and virtual simulation, and student experiences of learning in various modalities within an active learning paradigm.

Dr. Cobbett is currently the Site Administrator, Dalhousie University School of Nursing, Yarmouth Campus. 

Dr. Mary van Soeren

Mary van Soeren has been a nurse for over 45 years working in a variety of clinical (critical care, hemodialysis, diabetes education), administrative and academic positions. She has focused her research on implementation of nurse practitioner roles in acute care environments and interprofessional education. Working with teams of nurse educators in a variety of settings, she has developed and revised undergraduate and Master degree programs. 

Currently she is a part-time faculty member at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University focusing on graduate teaching, curriculum development and quality improvement.

The Gerri MacEwen Memorial Lecture in Nursing

Established by Dr. Pete MacEwen, MD'73, in memory of his wife, Gerri MacEwen, the Gerri MacEwen Memorial Lecture in Nursing brings speakers to the School of Nursing on a variety of topics, including nursing education, research, scholarship, clinical expertise and innovation.

The Gerri MacEwen Memorial Lecture in Nursing is pleased to partner with the Queen’s Lecture Series. The Queen’s Lecture Series showcases several donor-funded lectures from across the university throughout the year and provides alumni and the broader Queen’s community with increased access to some of the university’s top researchers and internationally respected visiting scholars.

Accessibility

All floors of the School of Medicine Building can be accessed by elevator and have accessible washrooms. Some doors do not have automatic openers. Visit Building Accessibility Features for more information. This lecture is also available on Zoom with optional live closed captioning. We invite you to contact us specifying any needs we may have overlooked, or which are not already in place.