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• Do you have a project success story that you want to share?

  • Start
    30 Aug 2025
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    1:00 PM
  • End
    31 Aug 2026
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    2:00 PM
  • Location
    zoom

  Do you have a great nursing informatics project success story you want to share?  We want to showcase nursing informatics successes or research project across Canada during our monthly CNIA education webinars.  We are hoping to foster celebrating successes, measuring outcomes and collaborating and sharing innovations.

   Its easy!  Just email Title, Speakers. Description of the presentation and preferred date to present and email to education@cnia.ca.

  When are sessions normally held? Third thursday of each month @ 1300h EST

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• When LLMs Fail: Bias, Flattery, and False Confidence

  • When
    15 Jan 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    zoom

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  Large language models can be remarkably capable, but they can also fail in ways that are subtle, surprising, and at times consequential. This tutorial explores how biases are introduced and amplified during model training, why these systems sometimes prioritise agreeable responses over accurate ones, and how their confident tone can mask uncertainty or error. Through real-world case studies, we'll examine the practical implications of these limitations for AI safety and healthcare settings, and equip participants with foundational prompt engineering techniques to use these tools more critically and effectively.
  

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• Immersive Virtual Reality to Strengthen Nursing Students’ Competencies in Newcomer Mental Health Care

  • When
    21 Jan 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    zoom

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  Newcomers in Canada, including immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, continue to face substantial mental health inequities shaped by stigma, cultural and linguistic differences, discrimination, and structural barriers. These challenges often result in delayed help-seeking and unmet needs that leads to worsening symptoms and overall quality of life. At the same time, many nurses report feeling underprepared to provide culturally responsive mental health care to newcomer populations upon entering the workforce. In recent years, immersive virtual reality (IVR) has emerged as a promising educational strategy to address this critical training gap.

  This presentation introduces a multi-phase explanatory sequential mixed-methods study that applies IVR to enhance undergraduate nursing students’ competencies in newcomer mental health care. The first phase involved developing the simulation using evidence from an integrative review and a participatory co-design process that engaged clinicians, educators, students, IVR experts, and patient-partners. The second phase examined the simulation’s acceptability and preliminary impact among students at the University of Saskatchewan and McGill University using a one-group pre/post design with standardized measures. The third phase, grounded in interpretive description, draws on semi-structured individual interviews to generate deeper insight into learner experiences and the perceived relevance of the simulation to real-world practice. By integrating findings across phases, this research highlights how IVR can support more culturally attuned, equitable mental health care education for future nurses. The webinar will outline the methodology, share overall results, and discuss implications and directions for future research.

  
  

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• CNIA Project Success Story x Canada Health Infoway Connected Care Clinical Student Scholarships

  • When
    19 Feb 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    zoom

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  This session will discuss the Connected Care Clinical Student Scholarship, including how it supports future nursing informatics leaders. Our webinar will feature two nursing recipients of the 2025 Connected Care Clinical Student Scholarship as esteemed guests. Our nursing guests will share insights on their career paths, what motivated them to pursue formal education in informatics, an overview of their current programs, and how they envision using their skills to advance interoperability and digital health in their future practice.

  Join us as we emphasize the vital role nurses play in informatics and demonstrate how digital health and interoperability are strengthening modern nursing practice in Canada.

  Hosted by: Michelle Culverwell, RN, BScN, MSc, CMPC. Senior Manager, Change Management & Adoption, Canada Health Infoway

  
  

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