Cannabis Backgrounder for Nursing Practice in a Shifting Policy Landscape
UBC Nursing Rounds
Date: 23 Oct 2018
Presented by: Dr. Emily Jenkins & Emma Garrod
Room: Room T182, 3rd floor, UBC Hospital
Time: 12-1pm
Join us for a candid discussion about the historical contexts, emerging best practices, and policy implications for nurses.
Bio: Dr. Emily Jenkins’ research utilizes community engaged approaches in the areas of mental health, substance use, and healthy public policy development. She works to support the inclusion of patient and community voice throughout the research process to inform policies and programs that are evidence-informed and responsive to a diversity of lived realities.
Emma Garrod is an MSN student at UBC, and a clinical nurse educator – Substance Use, Urban Health Program, Providence Health Care. She is also a past graduate of the Addictions Nursing Fellowship, BC Centre on Substance Use.