Third National Conference Introduction

Volume 5 No 1 Winter 2010

by June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c), Editor in Chief

Editorial

I am happy to present the final proceedings of our third CNIA Conference, held November 22 to 24, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario.
The theme for the conference was “Nurse 2.0” and we certainly witnessed this in praxis and action at the Conference. I was not personally able to attend due to illness, but was at the helm organizing the conference throughout 2010 and know that our current President Eithne Reichert, our attending Editorial Board members and our Conference Planners, Jeannie and Donna all worked hard to make it a grand success.

Many fundamental and critical issues were raised, and progress to date in addressing these issues was shared and celebrated. We have a long way to go, but we are well on our way. The CNIA is enthusiastic about creating solutions for some of these issues in the months ahead. I hope you enjoy this special Conference Issue: we include overviews of our plenary sessions, and the abstracts of all of our conference presentions. Many of these also include the powerpoint of the presentation and some also include a full paper of the topic.