Research Reflections

In 2023, for the first time, CANO-ACIO awarded three nursing students the Nursing Research Student Award for their successful abstracts. The award gave them an opportunity to present their research work during the annual CANO/ACIO conference that took place in Niagara Falls, Ontario.This innovative award approach was of particular importance for these three nursing students, one of whom was in an undergraduate nursing program, one in a Master’s program, and one in a doctoral program. As is evident in the descriptions below, the award was important to them because it gave them an opportunity to share their work with a national audience, as well as begin to see the larger world of oncology nursing research and its potential to change practice.Each of the individual presentations was amazing and greatly appreciated by all attendees of the Board-sponsored research workshop. Based on the feedback and the desire to profile the opportunity for other students in the future, each nursing student was invited to contribute to this Research Reflections Column. They were asked to discuss their personal experience and its impact on them. The following paragraphs are a summary of the synopsis they provided about their experiences.