2025-2026 Academic Year

Collective Memory and Narrative Repair: Bearing Witness to Nurses’ Moral Identity, Agency, and Experience amid the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Mock PhD Defence by Kristina Ma

April 23rd, 2026, from 2:00pm-3:30pm EST

This PCNE Hub gathering featured a mock PhD thesis defence for hub trainee, Kristina Ma, on her work entitled “Collective Memory and Narrative Repair: Bearing Witness to Nurses’ Moral Identity, Agency, and Experience amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.” 

Designing an Undergraduate Nursing Palliative Care Course

Facilitated by David Kenneth Wright, RN, PhD

February 3rd, 2026, from 12:30pm-2:00pm EST

This PCNE Hub featured a few of our academic mentors presenting the context and drafted course objectives for an undergraduate nursing palliative care course. The remainder of the session will be an interactive discussion to brainstorm together and contribute ideas related to learning activities, evaluations, and other elements of the curriculum.

Quality Improvement (QI) in Healthcare: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis Examining QI through the lens of Advanced Practice Nurses

Mock MScN defence by Katelyn Bouffard

January 23rd, 2026, from 10am-11:30am EST

This PCNE Hub gathering featured a mock MScN thesis defence for hub trainee, Katelyn Bouffard, on her work entitled “Quality Improvement (QI) in Healthcare: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis Examining QI through the lens of Advanced Practice Nurses.”

Exploring the Landscape of Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada: Past, Present, Future

Presented by Liana Bailey, RN, PhD(c) and Lauren Hanes, MD, FRCPC

October 15th, 2025, from 12:30pm-2pm EST

This PCNE Hub gathering featured a mock keynote presentation offering a preview of their upcoming talk at the Pediatric Palliative Care Symposium, part of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) conference in Nanaimo, BC. They shared stories from their qualitative descriptive study, where they interviewed pediatric palliative care program representatives from across the country, and highlighted findings pointing to the past, present, and future of pediatric palliative care in Canada.