Trina Arnold, RN, BN, MPH

Teaching philosophy

My goal as an educator is to provide high-quality nursing education, designed to equip nursing students with the skills, knowledge, and critical reflection necessary to practice safely, while creating a compassionate and inclusive learning environment in which they can grow and thrive both as future nurses and as human beings. 

Thus, one of the guiding principles of my teaching practice is that of compassionate pedagogy. My hope is to move beyond teaching future nurses about compassion, to modeling it for them by creating learning environments in which we all engage in a self-compassionate reflective practice.

Biography

Trina Arnold is a senior instructor in the College of Nursing at the University of Manitoba. She holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Public Health. Trina has been a registered nurse since 2006; her clinical experience focused on labour and birth nursing care as well as community and global health. As the director, faculty development, Trina supports operational leadership and oversees faculty onboarding and mentorship in the College of Nursing.

Trina’s experience as an educator at the University of Manitoba has included a variety of teaching roles including curriculum and course development, course leadership for theory and clinical courses, as well as senior practicum faculty advising. Trina also enjoys providing faculty mentorship within the College of Nursing and for the Teaching and Learning Certificate Program at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

Trina has provided leadership in the College of Nursing as the Year Three BN program lead (2016-2017), the director, undergraduate nursing programs (2019-2021), and the College of Nursing lead to the Rady Office of Interprofessional Collaboration (2021-2023).

Education

Teaching and Learning Certificate, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba (2017)

Master of Public Health, University of Manitoba (2013)

Bachelor of Nursing (with Distinction), University of Manitoba (2006)

Awards

Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba (ARNM) Outstanding Nursing Unit, Program, or Interprofessional Team - University of Manitoba OIPC Education Team (2022)

Martha Donovan Leadership Development Award, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and Winnipeg Foundation (2020)

Nursing Student Association Teaching in Excellence Award, University of Manitoba (2019)

Students’ Teacher Recognition, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba (2019)

Students’ Teacher Recognition, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba (2018)

Contact us

College of Nursing
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing
89 Curry Place
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus) 
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

nursing@umanitoba.ca
204-474-7452
204-474-7682