Book Launch: The Handover by Tilda Shalof and Lisa Mochrie

In , nurse Tilda Shalof shares her knowledge and vast experience with student nurse, Lisa Mochrie. Their relationship unfolds through conversations, texts, emails, and real-time meetings, that span the COVID-19 pandemic to the present day.

The Handover is a candid, often humorous, and deeply intimate look into the world of nursing, which is too often overlooked by the media or regarded through overly sentimental stereotypes. Accessible to all readers and invaluable to students and educators, this book will stimulate critical conversations about what it means to care for others and oneself and how to repair our precious, but precarious, health care system.

About the Speakers

Tilda Shalof was a staff nurse in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, for thirty years and held various clinical positions at UHN until her recent retirement. She was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal in 2025 for her contribution to nursing education.

Lisa Mochrie is a Registered Nurse, Team Lead, and Nursing Educator based in Burlington, Ontario. She has been recognized for her compassionate clinical practice by her Hospital’s Kindness Award (2024) and was honoured by her students with the Most Valuable Professor Award (2025), a testament to the lasting impact she makes on learners and the community.

Pam Hubley is VP of Health Professions, Patient Experience and Chief Nurse Executive at the University Health Network. She is a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Nursing and the J&J Wharton Nurse Executive program (University of Pennsylvania), and a graduate of the Rotman Advanced Health Leaders Program (University of Toronto). She is a member of the Wilson Centre and The Institute for Education Research at UHN, and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.

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