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The Canadian Sleep Society (CSS) selected Bloomberg Nursing assistant professor Dr. Robyn Stremler as the recipient of the 2011 Roger Broughton Young Investigator Award. Stremler is a nurse scientist, specializing in sleep research. Her work aims to improve sleep and health outcomes for parents, infants and children, through pregnancy and beyond. Few health care professionals are trained in sleep research, and nurses are especially underrepresented in this field. Notably, Stremler developed a behavioural-educational sleep intervention to improve maternal and infant sleep in the postpartum period and published evidence of its effectiveness in the journal SLEEP. Read more

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awarded Dr. Louise Rose, Bloomberg Nursing assistant professor and Lawrence S. Bloomberg Professor in Critical Care, a knowledge synthesis grant to examine mechanical ventilator weaning and contribute to efforts to guide practice and improve outcomes. Read more

The Mayday Fund selected Bloomberg Nursing associate professor Dr. Jennifer Stinson, 0T6 PhD, to be a fellow under the Mayday Pain & Society. She is one of six experts in pain management to receive the honour. Read more

Dean Sioban Nelson joins the Canadian Nurses Association's National Expert Commission

View the photo gallery from our Nursing Health Services Research symposium

The Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing hosted the regional Canadian Nursing Students' Association (CNSA) 2011 Ontario Regional Conference October 21st - 23rd, 2011. This was made possible by our nursing students' regional planning committee, who were successful in their bid to bring the event to U of T. The annual conference brings together hundreds of students from nursing faculties across the province, providing an opportunity to visit local facilities, network and explore a variety of professional opportunities. Students also had the opportunity to hear from some of the field's most influential leaders, including keynote speaker Dr. Sean Clarke, Bloomberg Nursing associate professor and RBC Chair in Cardiovascular Nursing Research. Read more

Each year, after having about a month to settle in to the program and their initial clinical placements, first-year BScN students are invited to the dean's welcome breakfast so everyone can get to know each other on a personal level. View photo gallery

Hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Professional Practice, the Alumni Lifelong Learning Series calls on the expertise of our outstanding researchers and consists of three professional development/continuing education seminars for the Faculty's alumni, as well as current students. The first instalment featured a presentation by Assistant Professor Dr. Amy Bender about "realizing the potential of e-mentoring for nursing students in Addis Ababa Ethiopia." The second was by Associate Professor Dr. Jan Angus about "gender and habitus in cardiac rehabilitation." Click here to view the summaries or RSVP to Dr. Doris Howell's upcoming lecture on chronic disease self-management in cancer.

The Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing is delighted to announce the 13 members of the Faculty who earned peer- and student-nominated 2011 Teaching Awards. The awards were presented to the winners September 21, 2011 by Elizabeth Peter, Associate Dean, Academic Programs. Click to view the list of winners or photo gallery from the presentation.

This three day institute provides a focused, educational opportunity for nurses interested in learning more about informatics. The program will be of particular interest to nurse educators responsible for the integration of informatics into entry level nursing programs, nursing practice leaders, or nurses currently working in or considering a future career in informatics. EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS: November 30, 2011. Click here for more information.

The latest issue of Pulse magazine is now available. This edition is about "Translational practice: The researcher-clinician partnership." Read about Dean Sioban Nelson's thoughts on knowledge translation; the Cochrane Collaboration; Grand Challenges Canada's Rising Star in Global Health award winner LaRon Nelson; and much more. Click here to view Pulse online.

As of the beginning of this fall, bottled water will no longer be sold at the majority of locations on the St. George campus, while sales at U of T Mississauga and Scarborough will be phased out over the next three years. The move away from bottled water and the promotion of the return to tap water is the result of a campaign begun about three years ago by the Public Water Initiative, a campus student group committed to the issue for environmental and social justice reasons. Read more

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