2025 VNTW Program Detail

All sessions will be on the Zoom “Webinar” platform, which highlights the presenters and session Ambassadors. In this format the session attendees view the presenters, but do not appear on video. Our Zoom Manager can activate audio or video for audience members as needed. Ambassadors will host each session and facilitate discussions. At the end of each day, we will shift to the group Zoom meeting format for interactive discussion based on the presentations of the day.

The session outline below is subject to change. The final program will be shown in the digital Guidebook. Guidebook will be available about 7 days before the conference for everyone who registers for the conference. Guidebook will also include biographical and contact information for all presenters, and contact information for participants.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

  • 9:30 am EDT Zoom opens
    • 10:00 – 11:30 am EDT – Opening Panel Presentation – Decolonizing Nursing Education: Embracing Freire’s Pedagogy for an Inclusive Future – Lucinda Canty, Kechi Iheduru-Anderson, Roberta Waite
    • 11:30 – 12:00 pm – Break
    • 12:00 – 12:30 pm – Decolonizing Unitary Caring through Integration of Intellectual Humility and Critical Consciousness – Emily Barr and Marlaine Smith
    • 12:30 -1:00 pm – Decolonizing Knowledge: The Client’s Worldview as Primary Evidence in Practice – Margaret Erickson and Helen Erickson
    • 1:00 – 1:30 pm – Integrating The Capabilities Approach with Emancipation Knowing Philosophy to Advance Nursing Knowledge – Faith Tissot
    • 1:30 – 1:45 pm – Break
    • 1:45-2:15 – Restoring Miyo-wicehtowin Nursing Students’ Perspectives on Treaty Talk – Colleen Maykut
    • 2:15 – 2:45 pm – Toward Decolonization: An Update from Nursology.net – Peggy Chinn
  • 2:45 – 3:15 – A Forgotten Medicine: Integrating Cannabis History and Science into Nursing Education – Ashley Parks
  • 3:15 – 3:30 – Break
  • 3:30 – 4:00 – Moving at the Speed of Trust Through Strengths-based Approaches and Nursing Knowledge – Barbara McDonald
  • 4:00 – 4:30 – Remarks from Sister Callista Roy and 25th Anniversary of Roy Adaptation Association
  • 4:30 – 5:30 pm – Daily Dialogue

Friday, March 21, 2025

  • 9:30 am EDT Zoom opens
  • 10:00 – 10:30 am – Reconceptualizing Nurses’ Recovery from Substance Use: An Emerging Theory – Karen Foli
  • 10:30 – 11:00 – Disability Theory and Emancipatory Knowing: Supporting Nursing Students with Mental Health Conditions – Heather Mangino
  • 11:00 – 11:30 – The Three Principles: A Foundation for Nursing Knowledge – Teresa Walding and Lyn McCright
  • 11:30 – 12:00 pm – Break
  • 12:00 – 12:30 pm – Decolonizing Nurse Residency: O’Rourke’s Professional Role Identity Theory in Action. – Maria O’Rourke and Leah Korkis
  • 12:30 – 1:00 pm – Embracing the Pluriverse: Mirroring through an Empirical and Pandimensional Lens – Wyona Freysteinson
  • 1:00 – 1:30 pm – The role of allies in the decolonization of nursing curriculum – Cody Jackson
  • 1:30 – 1:45 pm – Break
  • 1:45 – 2:15 pm – Redefining Strength: Decolonizing the Strong Black Woman Stereotype in Nursing Education Leadership – Kechi Iheduru-Anderson
  • 2:15 – 2:45 pm – Impact of transformational leadership theory on the implementation of Freire’s principles in nursing education: a critical analysis – Hannah Odei – Opoku
  • 2:45 – 3:15 – Day-to-day practical application of Friere’s pedagogy in nursing education – Christina Nyirati
  • 3:15 – 3:30 – Break
  • 3:30 – 4:00 – Nursing as Cuidado: Nursing in Latin America through Dussel’s Lens – Daniel Suárez-Baquero
  • 4:00 – 4:30 – Transforming Nursing Education: Advancing Equity and Allyship to Decolonizd Knowledge – Cassandra Mombrun
  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Daily Dialogue

Saturday, March 22, 2025

  • 9:30 am EDT Zoom opens
  • 10 am – 11:30 am EDT – Student/Early Career Scholars Panel – “Using the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence as a Guide for Practice and Research“
  • 11:30 – noon – Break
  • 12:00 – 12:30 pm – Nursing’s Patterns of Knowing as a Framework for Decolonizing Nursing Knowledge – Peggy Chinn, Lucinda Canty, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
  • 12:30 – 1:00 – Reimagining HIV Prevention for Black Women: A Decolonial Approach to Nursing Science – Brenice Duroseau
  • 1:00-1:30 pm – Nursing theory: co-occrurence study of the global south and Asia . Lynn Schweiger
  • 1:30 – 1:45 – Break
  • 1:45 – 2:15 – Appreciating Patterning with Theoretially-based intsruments: Benefits and Challenges – Arlene Ferren
    • 2:15 – 2;45 – The Relational Inquiry Framework: Framing a Pathway for Decolonizing Nursing Curriculum– Rasha Wahid and Kim English
    • 2:45 – 3:15 – Deconstructing and Decolonizing Nursing History: The Agatha Hodgins Experience – Juan Del Valle
  • 3:15 – 4:15 – Daily Dialogue

Sunday, March 23, 2025

  • 9:30 am – Zoom opens
  • 10:00 – 11:30 am – Posters
  • 11:30 am – 12:00 pm – Break
  • 12:00 – 12:30 pm – Nurses’ Understanding of LGBTQ+ Populations: A Needs Assessment – Danielle Brochu
  • 12:30 -1:00 pm – Transforming Second-Language Nursing Students Education: Applying Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Zeyana Al Ismaili
  • 1:00 – 1:30 pm – Student Nurses as Compassionate Healers: Intersection with Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy – Brenda Lohri-Posey
  • 1:30 – 1:45 pm- Break
  • 1:45 – 2:15 pm – Gatekeeping Transgender Medicine: Tracing Modern Paradigms to Twentieth Century Europe – Lynz Schweiger
  • 2:15 – 2:45 pm – Theory from Latin America: Decolonization of Knowledge in the Global South – Sonia Patricia Carreño Moreno
  • 2:45 – 3:15 pm – Colleagues with Nursing Theory Hesitancy? You Can Help! – Deborah Lindell
  • 3:15 – 4:15 pm EDT – Daily Dialogue

Monday, March 24, 2025

  • 9:30 am – Zoom opens
  • 10:00 – 10:30 – A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Emotional and Psychological Experience of a Transgender Adult During and After GenderTransition – Beverley Rader
  • 10:30 – 11:00 – Conceptual Models of Nursology: Two Iranian Perspectives – Jacqueline Fawcett and Akram Sadat Sadat Hoseini
  • 11:00 – 11:30 – Planting Seeds of Indigenous Health Equity – Brenda Owen
  • 11:30 – 12:00 pm – Break
  • 12:00 – 12:30 – Using Narrative to Decolonize Nursing Education, Centering Subjective Knowledge, and Creating a Community of Consciousness – Raeann LeBlanc
  • 12:30 – 1:00 – Definitions of Oppression: Decolonizing the Language of Vulnerable and Underserved Populations – Raeann LeBlanc
  • 1:00 – 1:30 – Fostering Health Equity and Social Justice in Clinical Learning through Norm-Critical Teaching – Is It Possible? – Barbara MacDonald and Ivan Andrés Castillo
  • 1:45 – 2:15 – Advancing Nursing Knowledge: Novel Therapy in Treating Sickle Cell Disease – Kemmarie C. Beal
  • 2:15 – 2:45 – Implementation of a Nursing Theories Course in Brazil: An Experience Report – Nuno Felix, Sousa Anderson, Virginia Ramos Dos Santos Souza
  • 2:45 – 3:15 – Portraits of Black Nurses: Remembering te past, Shaping the Future – Kimmarie Beal
  • 3:15 – 4:30 pm EDT – Closing Panel – “The path forward for a Nursology that heals, transforms and liberates“