• Decolonizing nursing education in action: Decolonization in nursing education entails recognizing and dismantling colonial legacies that shape and maintain harmful practices and structures in nursing education and health care systems. It calls into question the ways things are done and seeks to address and redress historical harms, inequities, and power imbalances that affect nursing and healthcare delivery. This subtheme addresses our responsibility to uphold and honour Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, being, and connecting in nursing education; and calls for ways to enact cultural humility, cultural safety, and the transformation of our relationship with and kinship responsibility to the human and more-than-human world.
• Beyond Representation, towards inclusion and social justice: This subtheme focuses on taking action to promote justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in nursing education, scholarship, and practice. It calls for the troubling of assumptions and disrupting the ways things are done – to unlearn harmful practices that maintain racism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia and oppression and (re)learn ways of teaching, practicing, and researching that are anti-racist, anti-discriminatory, ethical, trauma-informed, and promote success and flourishing of all nursing students, faculty, and those we care for.
• Educating for an evolving context: This subtheme addresses the global health challenges facing nursing education and how we must evolve to address these issues while upholding justice and equity. This includes how nursing education is addressing a) climate change, emergency and pandemic preparedness and global health; b) planetary health and environmentally responsible healthcare practices; societal issues, including mental health, the opioid crisis, and the needs of an aging population; c) the changing health system context, innovations in programs in clinical education and our response to the nursing shortage and the broader health human resource crisis such as internationally educated nurses.
• It’s Never Just Technology: This subtheme addresses the demands of a rapidly evolving landscape on nursing education which is continuously influenced by new technology, such as artificial intelligence, telehealth, remote monitoring, and data-driven health care. It is also increasingly incorporating high fidelity and virtual simulation in curricula and delivering hybrid programs and virtual courses. Participants are invited to critically examine, and share knowledge related to how technological advances can be ethically and effectively integrated in nursing practice, nursing curricula, and pedagogy while addressing justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Hotel Reservation Information:

Book your hotel reservation by Friday, May 3, 2024, at 11:59 pm MST (Calgary time) to secure the special CASN Conference 2024 guestroom rates starting at $219.00/night by reserving online: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1683836682151&key=GRP

If you would like to book a guestroom pre or post conference beyond the room block dates of May 23 to May 31, 2024, you must call the hotel to make reservations. Guestrooms and rates are subject to availability.

For reservations assistance, please call 1 (888) 627-8417 and mention the “CASN Education Conference” guestroom block.

Marriott Bonvoy loyalty members receive special perks when staying at The Delta Hotels St. John’s Conference Centre. Consider becoming a member here: https://www.marriott.com/loyalty/createAccount/createAccountPage1.mi

Travelling to the conference:

Air Canada is offering a travel discount for conference attendees:

• For North America: 5% standard fares, 10% flex & up
• For International Travel: 10% on standard fares & up

Promotion Code: KVKUZCT1

To book a flight with your promotion code, access www.aircanada.com and enter your promotion code in the promotion box. The discount will be automatically calculated for you.

Applicable Rules:

• The booking is to be made to the following city: Calgary, Alberta (YYC) Canada
• The travel period begins Monday, May 20, 2024, and ends Tuesday, June 4, 2024.
• Travel is valid Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
• The promotion code is intended for use by conference attendees and organizers and is not meant for distribution outside of authorized channels. Air Canada’s Terms and Conditions apply.

West Jet is offering is offering a travel discount for conference attendees:

• 5% off Econo* and 10% off EconoFlex and Premium fares for travel within Canada
• 2% off Econo*, 5% off EconoFlex and 10% off Premium base fares for guests travelling trans-border.

To take advantage of this offer, you will need the discount code listed. Please visit www.westjet.com/conventions to make a booking online.

Coupon Code: Guest web/Travel Agent web: 3O9W3ID
Promo Code: Travel Agent GDS only: YBE99

Applicable Rules:

• The booking is to be made to the following city: Calgary, Alberta (YYC) Canada
• The travel period begins Monday, May 20, 2024, and ends Tuesday, June 4, 2024, no discount will apply to Basic or Business class bookings.

*Basic fare class is excluded from discount. Discount codes are valid for travel on the dates indicated above. Percentage discount is applied to base fare. Taxes, fees and charges are extra. The base fare may be represented as Air Transportation Charges (excepting Other Air Transportation Charges) in the booking flow. Other air transportation charges, taxes, fees and charges are not discounted. Discount codes are intended for use by the event attendees and organizers only. Distribution to any outside third parties or unauthorized channel is prohibited. Discount can be used for a one-way or round-trip booking. Discount cannot be applied towards multi-city bookings. Only one discount code may be used per booking. Seasonal start and end dates may apply. No cash value. Discount only applies to flights marketed and operated wholly by WestJet, WestJet Encore, WestJet Link, and Delta flights marketed by WestJet via codeshare. It is not applicable when traveling with our other code-share, interline or other airline partners. New bookings only. Offer is limited and subject to availability. No cash value. Non-refundable and non-transferable. Discount cannot be used towards the purchase of a Member Exclusive fare or the purchase of a WestJet Vacations package. Discount cannot be combined with any other discount codes or companion voucher bookings. WestJet dollars, Travel Bank and gift cards cannot be used as a form of payment. Any changes or cancellations to discount code bookings must be made by calling 1-888-937-8538. If the booking is changed or cancelled, the discount will no longer apply. Other restrictions may apply and are subject to change at any time. WestJet’s fares, schedules and policies, and any and all equipment used in connection with the provision of the meetings and conventions travel services may be changed or terminated by WestJet at any time and for any reason, in each case without notice or liability. WestJet may terminate or reduce flights to any event city at any time and for any reason without notice or liability.