IMPACT SPOTLIGHT

The Centre of Excellence in Long-term Care

COVID-19 has drawn into sharp focus the challenges of caring for older adults in their own homes, as well as the systemic issues facing long-term care across multiple provinces. There is a clear opportunity for registered nurses, nurse practitioners and nurse researchers to lead in these settings, provide innovative care and leadership, and create a culture of teaching and learning. Bloomberg Nursing at the University of Toronto is uniquely positioned to lead in investing the interdisciplinary research and scholarship required to address the complex health challenges of older adults and long-term care reform. Through the Centre of Excellence in Long-term Care, we will aim to help policymakers meet the needs of the older adult population and create a new future for long-term care needs including the perspectives older adults, their families and caregivers and healthcare providers. As part of our new campaign Bloomberg Nursing will seek funding, additional and deepened research collaborations, and partnerships to maintain and expand its global leadership in gerontological nursing and to educate registered nurses and nurse practitioners to be ready to face the challenges of long-term care in the decades ahead.

Learn more about how you can support our campaign and the Centre of Excellence in Long-term Care by emailing

alumni.nursing@utoronto.ca

Centre for Social Justice

At the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, we are committed to integrating equity and social justice into everything we do – whether that is educating the nurses of tomorrow, engaging in impactful research, and caring for our patients, their families, and our communities.

Through the proposed Centre for Social Justice, Bloomberg Nursing is well-positioned to lead in building a network of practitioners and scholars poised to make changes that will address social disparities, inside and outside the classroom, our healthcare institutions and our society. Bloomberg Nursing will seek funding for the creation of a nursing-led, interdisciplinary team with shared perspectives from students, researchers, health care providers and patients, families and their communities, to explore the twin challenges of systemic discrimination in both the healthcare and healthcare education systems. Learn more about how you can support the Centre of Social Justice by visiting:

https://uoft.me/nursing-social-justice

Nurses are deeply entrenched in addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time. From navigating systemic discrimination in health care and barriers to health equity, to developing innovative and evidence-based strategies to improve quality and dignified care across the life span. Together we will reshape the future of nursing.”

LAWRENCE BLOOMBERG FACULTY OF NURSING University of Toronto 155 College Street, Suite 130 · Toronto, ON M5T 1P8 416.978.2392