Keynote Speakers
BC Lab Educators would like to thank Laerdal for sponsoring Lisa Day!
Lisa Day, PhD, RN, CNRN, completed an Associate Degree in nursing in 1984 and completed her BSN, MS (Critical Care CNS), and PhD at the University of California-San Francisco School of Nursing. She has worked as a staff RN in post-anesthesia recovery, cardiac medicine, and neuroscience, and as a clinical nurse educator and neuroscience clinical nurse specialist.
Dr. Day has taught in the accelerated second degree Master’s Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing and is currently an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Day has consulted on many nursing education-related projects including the 2008 National League for Nursing Think Tank on Transforming Clinical Nursing Education; the Oregon Consortium for Nursing Education; the first phase of the Robert Wood Johnson-funded project Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN); and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s National Study of Nursing Education (Patricia Benner, director).
She is one of the co-authors of the landmark publication "Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation" reporting the results of the Carnegie study, and has provided faculty development workshops for schools of nursing in the US and Canada.
BC Lab Educators would like to thank BCIT for sponsoring Colette Foisy-Doll!
Colette Foisy-Doll, RN BScN has devoted 24 of her 27-year nursing career to Nursing Education. She is currently employed by Grant MacEwan University as a Professional Resource Faculty. It was in this capacity that she embraced and championed the use of simulation in healthcare as an innovative and powerful learning approach for the past 13 years.
Colette is passionate about simulation and has actively sought to increase the profile of simulation learning at regional, national, and international levels by contributing to the design and development of healthcare simulation education buildings and programs. She has developed innovative student learning environments, made valued contributions to curriculum and scenario development and has worked to develop training programs for faculty in the use of simulation technologies and related pedagogies.
Colette is the recipient of two prestigious international awards in simulation education. She loves teaching because “of the synergy created between the learner and the teacher. It gives rise to new possibilities, ideas and realities for both.
BC Lab Educators would like to thank METI /CAE and Pearson Education for sponsoring Nicole Harder!
Nicole Harder, RN, PhD, has been with the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Nursing for the past eleven years, and was the Coordinator of the Learning Laboratories for eight years before becoming the Coordinator of the Simulation Learning Centre in 2010.
Nicole has taught many courses including health assessment in the undergraduate nursing program and graduate nurse practitioner program, and continues to look for new ways to help students understand and apply the concepts being taught. Her practice background has been as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with the Canadian Military as well as several years working in Northern Manitoba and the high Arctic in remote health centers.
Nicole has published several articles related to high-fidelity simulation in nursing education and on teaching excellence. She is a recent doctoral graduate from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta. Her research study is titled ‘Nursing Students’ Learning in High-Fidelity Simulation: An Ethnographic Study’ and is the basis for her presentation.