• A Gendered Analysis of Implemention and Impacts of Prescribed Safer Supply in BC: A Qualitative Exploration during Dural Public Health Emergencies 

  Sullivan, Ginger (2023-08-31)

  Women and gender diverse persons often remain underserved by harm reduction programs and initiatives (e.g., needle distribution, supervised consumption services, prescribed safer supply programs). A lack of attention to ...
• Honouring lived experience wisdom: Healing and healing environments according to ‘family members’ in Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction and culturally supportive housing 

  Brown, Meaghan (2023-08-31)

  Honouring lived experience wisdom: Defining healing and healing environments according to ‘family members’ in Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction and culturally supportive housing’ illustrates a strengths-based story of ...
• Improving Care for People with Severe Persistent Mental Illness in the Palliative Phase 

  Donald, Erin E. (2023-08-30)

  Persons with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) experience a greater burden and severity of chronic disease, late diagnosis, and premature death compared to the general population. These patients also receive fewer ...
• Strategies to diversify Canadian baccalaureate nursing education: A scoping review protocol 

  Hubert, Jaymelyn; Jap, Jennifer; Mussell, Jessica; Zakher, Bernadette; Dordunoo, Dzifa (2023-08-16)

  Objective: This review seeks to identify strategies that have been implemented by Canadian baccalaureate nursing (BSN) programs to recruit and retain students of systemically and historically marginalized populations. ...
• The Experience of Adolescent and Young Adult Transplant Recipients Transitioning to Adult-Focused Care: A Constructivist Grounded Theory 

  Lim, Angie (2023-07-20)

  The healthcare transition for adolescent and young adult (AYA) organ transplant recipients is a critical yet understudied period, marked by a shift from pediatric to adult-focused care. This transition process presents ...
• The Social Relations of Home Care Nursing Work 

  Sanders, Tanya (2023-04-21)

  There is an increasing need for home care in Canada; however, there is little evidence about the everyday nursing work in home care and the institutional influences that impact this work. As nurses are the largest professional ...
• Advance Care Planning between Registered Nurses and their Acute Care Patients 

  Rietze, Lori (2022-10-03)

  Canadians are living longer with multiple complex illnesses. In turn, older adults are often in need of complex medical attention in crisis situations in acute care hospital settings. Although acute care settings are ...
• Teaching Nursing as a Complex Emergent Discipline 

  Clancy, Tracey L (2022-08-19)

  My goal with this inquiry was to seek the meaning of teaching nursing from within the discipline, aligning pedagogy with what it means to become a nurse in addition to revealing what nursing is as an embodied practice and ...
• Mastectomy tattoos: transforming perceptions of self 

  Reid-de Jong, Victoria (2022-05-02)

  Thousands of women in Canada continue to be diagnosed every year with breast cancer, many undergoing surgical mastectomy as part of their treatment to eradicate or control the spread of disease. At present, the recommendation ...
• “Nurses can do better”: experiences of LGBTQI+ migrants with nurses and other healthcare professionals in Canada 

  Haghiri-Vijeh, Roya (2022-04-27)

  This dissertation starts with a foreword chapter that discusses my situatedness in research which aims to understand the experiences of LGBTQI+ migrants with nurses and healthcare professionals in Canada. This is followed ...
• Hearing their stories: understanding the experiences of Canadian Muslim nurses who wear a hijab 

  Saleh, Nasrin (2022-01-07)

  My experiences as a Canadian Muslim nurse wearing a hijab have sparked the question concerning the experiences of nurses who, in their daily practice, choose to wear a head cover, an immediate visual signifier of their ...
• Heart failure self-care: an evolutionary concept analysis 

  Garland, Rachel (2022-01-04)

  Self-care is a central concept in heart failure management and nursing practice. Yet, the uptake of heart failure self-care has been uncritical and detached from broader contexts. Therefore, heart failure self-care was ...
• Characteristics and processes of the dedicated education unit practice education model for undergraduate nursing students: a scoping review 

  Marcellus, Lenora; Jantzen, Darlaine; Humble, Robin; Sawchuck, Diane; Gordon, Carol (JBI Evidence Synthesis, 2021-11)

  Objective: The objective was to review literature related to the dedicated education unit practice education model for undergraduate nursing students, and identify common characteristics and processes for implementing ...
• Equity-oriented frameworks to inform responses to opioid overdoses: a scoping review 

  Wallace, Bruce; MacKinnon, Karen; Strosher, Heather; Macevicius, Celeste; Gordon, Carol; Raworth, Rebecca; Mesley, Lacey; Shahram, Sana; Marcellus, Lenora; Urbanoski, Karen; Pauly, Bernie (JBI Evidence Synthesis, 2021-08)

  Objective: The purpose of this scoping review was to systematically identify and describe literature that uses a health equity–oriented approach for preventing and reducing the harms of stigma or overdose for people who ...
• Exploring the role of digital technologies for social connectedness, outcomes and experiences with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) community: A transformative mixed methods research study 

  Antonio, Marcy (2021-10-04)

  Prior to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were already experiencing social isolation due to the complex intersection of symptoms, and perceptions ...
• Social media reviews as a supplement to traditional quality survey in the Canadian context 

  Talusan, Christopher (2021-09-13)

  Measurement for quality improvement in health care can be difficult. Measuring patientcentred care ensures both patient, health care professionals and health system perspectives are accounted for. Unfortunately, obtaining ...
• How do public health nurses work and support mothering refugee women in the community? 

  Kassam, Shahin (2021-09-13)

  My doctoral studies contribute toward situating the health of mothering women who have been forcibly displaced within the nursing discipline. Specifically, public health nursing processes used while working with and ...
• Exploring the challenges and issues facing undergraduate nursing education in one Canadian province from an institutional theory perspective: a case study 

  Sheane, Vanessa (2021-04-30)

  Aim The study aim was to explore the issues and challenges facing undergraduate nursing education in one Canadian province from an institutional theory perspective. The research questions were: What is the institutional ...
• Health equity-oriented approaches to inform responses to opioid overdoses: a scoping review protocol 

  MacKinnon, Karen; Pauly, Bernie; Shahram, Sana; Wallace, Bruce; Urbanoski, Karen; Gordon, Carol; Raworth, Rebecca; MacDonald, Marjorie; Marcellus, Lenora; Sawchuck, Diane; Pagan, Flora; Strosher, Heather; Inglis, Dakota; Macevicius, Celeste; Strayed, Nathan (JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 2019)

  The purpose of this scoping review is to systematically identify and describe literature that uses a health equity-oriented (HEO) approach for preventing and reducing the harms of stigma or overdose for people who use ...
• Living<=>Dying with metastatic breast cancer: women's accounts of living longer in smaller communities 

  Shermak, S. Lee (2020-06-05)

  As a life-limiting illness mediated by rapid advancements in biomedical technologies, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) now presents in increasingly unexpected ways where women are living longer. These women’s lives may not ...

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