77th Annual Conference – Professional Day agenda

9am

Welcome to Country
Introduction from MC

Julie McCrossin

9.15am

Sustain & Retain: A global overview of nurse supply

Professor James Buchan
UTS, University of Edinburgh

10.15am

Morning tea

10.50am

Launch – NSWNMA Education portal

11am

Panel discussion:
Reflections on the pandemic and how nurses and midwives will ensure their voices are heard as the healthcare system moves forward.

• Linda Silas, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions
• Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director, National Nurses United, USA;
• Shaye Candish, Assistant General Secretary, NSWNMA

12.15pm

Let’s talk Superannuation

HESTA

12.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm

COVID-19 and aged care: a pandemic of virtue, vicissitude and vanity  

Professor Joseph Ibrahim,
Monash University

2.10pm

In conversation with Shane Fitzsimmons: crisis, leadership, resilience

Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, Resilience NSW

2.50pm

Afternoon tea

3.20pm

Stepping up and speaking up for what is important to you

Jane Caro

4.20pm

Off the charts

Nurse Georgie Carroll

5pm

Wrap-up and close