This year, the BScN annual Synapse Nursing Symposium will be held on Thursday May 23rd, 2019 on the Cornwall Campus of St. Lawrence College under the theme Continuing our Scholarship Journey: Celebrating 10th anniversary of the first graduating class and we are excited to confirm our Synapse 2019 keynote speaker: Dr. Tracie Risling!

Tracie Risling RN, PhD is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan with a practice background in pediatric nursing. She began her nursing education career at Saskatchewan Polytechnic and spent five years teaching, and engaged in curriculum development, before assuming a leadership role in the Institute for Nursing Scholarship. In that position, she supported the scholarly work of nursing faculty including the development of research grants, publications, conference abstract submissions, and presentations. Dr. Risling currently leads a patient-oriented program of research in health informatics at the University of Saskatchewan. This work includes study on social media, co-design of patient-centered technologies, and patient access and use of electronic health records. Balancing this research with her teaching and administrative duties as the Curricular Chair for nursing has provided extensive experience on navigating the demands of scholarship and academic life.

Dr. Risling will be delivering a keynote address in addition to moderating a two-part scholarship workshop. The deadline for abstract submission is fast approaching on March 31st, 2019! We encourage all faculty, students, community partners and alumni to present to our conference! For further information and our submission link, please visit http://synapseslc.ca/

For any questions or further information, please contact Julie Dyke at jdyke@sl.on.ca We look forward to receiving your submissions and to your participation in our conference! Julie Dyke, Chair Synapse 2019 Committee

In honour of the first graduating class 10 years ago from the St Lawrence College, Laurentian University Collaborative Program, Synapse will be hosting a special feature alumni event! This event will be from 4-6 pm after the conference on May 23rd. Save the date and spread the word.

Please save the date!

This year, the BScN annual Synapse Nursing Symposium will be held on Thursday May 23^rd, 2019 under the theme Continuing our Scholarship Journey: Celebrating 10^th anniversary of the first graduating class.

The symposium will be highlighting the BScN program, its partners’ and alumni’s scholarship activities in a one-day conference at the Cornwall Campus of St. Lawrence College. The symposium will also use this opportunity to celebrate the 10^th year of the first BScN graduating class.

We invite all BScN faculty, BScN students, community partners and alumni to participate by submitting an abstract to present in an oral or poster presentation about a project, a study, or some other aspect of their work they are interested in sharing at this symposium. Abstracts will be accepted until March 31^st, 2019 and further information will be circulated.

Please save the date! Thursday May 23^rd, 2019.

Julie Dyke, Chair

Synapse 2019 committee

Click here to download a pdf copy of the program and schedule for oral and poster abstracts

Click here to download the pdf of Synapse 2017 Program

4^th ANNUAL BSCN Tri Campus Symposium program

Time	Session	Location
8:15-8:55	Registration COFFEE	Student Lounge
8:55-9:10	Opening Remarks	Student Lounge
9:10-10:10	Keynote Speaker Dr. Jennifer Medves RN PhD	Student Lounge
10:10-10:50	Oral Presentations Session 1	Student Lounge
10:50-11:30	COFFEE BREAK Poster Presentations	Student Commons
11:30-12:10	Oral Presentations Session 2	Student Lounge
12:10 – 1:10	LUNCH	Student Lounge
1:10 – 2:20	Oral Presentations Session 3	Student Lounge
2:20 – 3:00	COFFEE BREAK Poster Presentations	Student Commons
3:00 – 3:40	Concurrent Presentations Session 4	Rooms 206 & 207
3:40 – 4:10	Closing Remarks And Prizes	Student Lounge