January 13, 2026 - Journal Club (via Zoom) - Nursing students’ perspectives on Caring Pedagogical relationship within the context of simulation: A phenomenological inquiry

Please join us for the first Journal Club of 2026 - January 13 at 11am EST! REGISTER HERE!

This phenomenological research aimed to describe and understand nursing students’ meaning of the lived experience of a caring pedagogical relationship within the context of high-fidelity clinical simulation. Being inspired by a relational emancipatory pedagogy perspective, our findings highlighted an authentic engagement of educators as the cornerstone to fostering a safe, caring, and inclusive learning space, allowing them to co-create a humanistic collaboration with students to transform their learning process. Innovative and various avenues arising from our findings have been suggested in different domains of nursing practice to promote students’ learning and develop a caring inclusive learning community within simulation centers.

Speaker:

Dr. Ben-Ahmed is a Senior Research Associate and Co-director of the Mobility, Migration, and Integration Theme at the Canadian Health Workforce Network and a Part-Time professor at the University of Ottawa and McGill University. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Université Centrale de Tunis. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (2010 – 2013) and a master’s degree in nursing (2014 – 2016) from the University of Sousse in Tunisia. He completed his PhD in Nursing from the Faculty of Nursing of the Université de Montréal (2016 – 2021) in Canada. In 2022, Dr. Ben-Ahmed completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in nursing workforce at the University of Ottawa, where he was commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and the Canadian Health Workforce Network to work on a pan-Canadian research report on nursing workforce issues and present it to federal, provincial, and territorial health ministers. As an emerging leader, his research program focuses on fostering capacity building at the organizational and system level to sustain the nursing workforce and enhance the efficacy, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare systems, both locally and globally. He has been involved in various funded research projects related to health workforce management and consulted by different international organizations such as the World Education Services (WES) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Grounded in a collaborative perspective, Dr. Ben-Ahmed founded the Collaborative Alliance of Research and Education for Nursing Empowerment (CARE4NEt), which is an international hub dedicated to fostering nursing workforce capacity-building through innovative research, transformative education, and strategic partnerships, with a particular focus on regions where nurses are striving for greater empowerment.