Perry discusses importance of health care role models

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/perry edited.jpg” caption=”Beth Perry will give a lecture on Sharing The Journey: Being an Exemplary Role Model on Nov. 8. Photo courtesy of FHS.”]The importance of exemplary role models in health care settings, especially for students and novice staff, will be the topic of the second annual Bernice King Lectureship in Clinical Nursing Education, taking place on Nov. 8 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

Beth Perry, author of the book Moments In Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing Care, is the featured speaker at the event being held in the lecture theatre on the fourth floor of the Juravinski Cancer Centre.

Her talk, entitled Sharing The Journey: Being an Exemplary Role Model, will be followed by a panel discussion, question and answer period and a reception.

Perry is an RN who obtained her B.Sc. in nursing in 1982, and her PhD in 1994 from the University of Alberta.

Health care providers of any type and students are invited to attend, but registration is limited to 130 people. There is no registration fee.

The lectureship is sponsored by the McMaster University School of Nursing, in collaboration with Mohawk and Conestoga colleges, as well as Hamilton Health Sciences.

The lectureship was launched in 2005, and named for King, a former assistant clinical professor at McMaster's School of Nursing, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to clinical education of nursing students as well as many other health discipline students.

To register, please contact Betty McCarthy at ext. 22405, or bmccarth@mcmaster.ca.