Team Up! Webinar Nursing Role and Scope in Primary Care: “Take 2”

Angela Wignall is a Registered Nurse serving as the Director, Professional Practice & Health Policy with the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia (NNPBC), BC’s unified professional nursing association. Angela is a policy nurse whose practice centres nursing at the intersection of policy and governance. Angela holds a BA from York University, a BSN from the University of Victoria, a Masters in Policy & Practice, and is currently completing her PhD with a research focus on nation state level Chief Nursing Officer leading health policy coalitions. Angela is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and has recently supported the work of Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer as a member of the CNO Advisory Committee on Nursing Retention. In addition, she supports the International Council of Nurses as chair of the PAHO region Global Nursing Leadership Institute Alumni Network and co-chair of the international GNLI Steering Group. Angela advises and speaks around the world on nurse-led innovation, clinical governance, policy science, nursing leadership in policy contexts, and health-care transformation. She lives with her partner and two sons on the beautiful homelands of the Lekwungen speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, in what is colonially known as Victoria, BC.