Name: Health for All: The Collaborative Role of Nurses in Advancing Health Equity
Start: 2026-06-11T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-11T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Vancouver Community College-Online

All are welcome to join VCC Bachelor of Science in Nursing students, faculty and community partners online to share about the collaborative health and healing work among our practicum students and diverse community partners.

We will then explore ways to support moving our health systems upstream to enable nurses (and interdisciplinary health and social service workers) to practice to full scope, including engaging in collaborative population health promotion and health equity advocacy with inter-sectoral partners to enable health for all.

Link for online event will be sent to participants the night prior to event.

Schedule of event:

8:30am Land and Labour Acknowledgement

8:35am Community Nursing in Action: From Youth Immunization to Senior Wellness Marion Eleazar Calanoc, Tessa Nunis, Jamie Lingat

8:45am Full Scope Full Impact Community Health Nursing in Action Paulina Munoz and Tessa Waugh

8:55am Wellness Without Boundaries: Unleashing the Community RN for Empowered, Healthier Communities Gurjit Mahal and Marnie Janzen

9:05 – 9:20am 15 minute BREAK

9:20am Promoting Holistic Health in the Community Amandeep Mrahard and Leila Tugonon

9:30am Advancing Health Equity through Community Health Promotion Samantha Choo and Maddelyn Renstad

9:40am Nursing With, Not For, Full Scope Community Health Nursing in Population, Public, and Community Practice Ting Zhou and Ary Torkaman

9:50 – 10:10am 20 minute BREAK

10:10am Full Scope Nursing Across the Life Span and Across Communities Taylor Stark, Shiza Ali, Anne Mencias

10:20am Caring at every level: prevention, promotion, and protection in community health nursing Jas Balback & Betty Biro

10:30 – 11am Dialogue: What are the root barriers to enabling our health care systems to include upstream population health promotion to enable nurses and other interdisciplinary health and social service workers to engage in community building and health equity advocacy work? How can we address these barriers to holistic health care?

Chat room for networking on breaks:

Examples of student project work will be showcased in this chat room and opportunities for networking.

We would like to acknowledge the tremendous support of our non-governmental organization and health clinic community partners in collaborating with VCC students and faculty in this work:

Lu’ma Medical Centre

Vancouver Coastal Health’s Immunization Program

BC Family Well-being Coalition

Vancouver Sex Workers Community Alliance

McCreary Youth Centre Society

BC Poverty Reduction Coalition

St. John Hospice

Downtown Eastside Neighborhood House

Kitsilano Neighborhood House

Suggested readings/viewings prior to joining event to enable meaningful dialogue include:

Beginning draft of VCC Population Health Promotion Resource Kit developed by VCC Digital Art and Design students

World Health Organization World report on social determinants of health equity, 2025