Emma Bingham is an RN with a wealth of clinical experience, currently working as a staff nurse in neurovascular and neurocritical care at Toronto Western Hospital. She holds a master’s of clinical nursing with a specialization in bioethics from the University of Toronto, where she is also an adjunct lecturer. Last year, Emma designed and implemented a new nursing role to support the response to Code Strokes at her organization, which has led to increased nurse job satisfaction, safer transitions of care, and accelerated emergency department throughPUT through rapid patient admission to critical care beds. Emma is completing research on the barriers to oral care provision in patients with neurological disorders, and is also mentoring two teams of nurses completing quality improvement projects. Emma is a clinical facilitator with the Michener Institute’s critical care program, and is completing her second Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship with RNAO. Emma is passionate about quality improvement, nursing ethics, supporting new learners and neuroscience nursing.
Since graduating from Toronto Metropolitan University’s BScN program in 2020, Simon Donato-Woodger has worked on the COVID assistance and general medicine units at Kitchener’s Grand River Hospital, the acute care unit at Inuvik Regional Hospital in the Northwest Territories, and most recently the intensive care unit at Scarborough General Hospital.
Simon works as a research assistant for Dr. Charlene Chu at the University of Toronto, exploring topics such as health-related artificial intelligence and gerontology, specifically how artificial intelligence affects the older adult population.
In addition to these roles, Simon is a relief RN at Toronto’s Parkdale Queen West Supervised Consumption Site, and volunteers as the policy/political action executive network officer for RNAO’s Region 6 (Toronto West). Simon has a strong interest in quality improvement science, and completed an RNAO Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship (ACPF) this year, focused on best practice guideline implementation in critical care.
The President's Award for Leadership in Clinical Nursing Practice is awarded to the RN or NP who consistently demonstrates expertise and evidence-informed practice in one or more areas of clinical practice in a staff nurse position. This member enhances the role of nursing by demonstrating leadership in her/his workplace and influencing change for the betterment of patients, families and/or communities. The winners of this award (we have two this year) each receive a $2,000 scholarship, or the equivalent in funding, towards attending a Canadian Nurses Association or International Council of Nurses conference. Funding for this award is generously sponsored by RNAO's group home and auto insurance provider, HUB International Ontario Limited.
