• 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 ...
• When it is no longer your call: managing the eroding public health nurse role 

  Kirk, Megan Elise (2020-06-02)

  The purpose of this study was to explain how public health renewal has shaped public health nursing practice, how public health nurses have managed these changes, and the perceived impact of such changes on health outcomes. ...
• Enacting medication administration as nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit: a praxiographic study 

  Neander, Wendy (2020-05-20)

  The purpose of this research was to offer a description of the complexity of nurses’ medication administration practices in relationships with technology. The clinical situations and circumstances in which nurses administer ...
• Information sharing by nurses in intensive care units with and without interdisciplinary rounds 

  James, Lynne (2019-12-24)

  Situation awareness and distributed situation awareness are important concepts in critical care, where large interdisciplinary teams must coordinate their activities through information sharing to provide lifesaving treatment ...
• Nursing practice change: an interpretive description study of nurses working in Qatar 

  Levers, M-J. D (2019-09-27)

  Clinical nursing practice is on the cusp of significant and unrelenting change amid globalization, austerity measures and technological advancements as the world moves out of the industrial age into the knowledge age. With ...
• Learning to teach: Teaching assistants (TAs) learning in the workplace 

  Korpan, Cynthia Joanne (2019-09-19)

  Through an exploratory qualitative, interpretive frame that employed an ethnographic methodological approach, this research focuses on teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in a lab, tutorial, or discussion group. Nine TAs ...
• Feeling pulled in different directions: a humanbecoming inquiry 

  Tschanz, Coby L. (2019-04-29)

  This dissertation presents a Parsesciencing study of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling pulled in different directions. Concept inventing reveals feeling pulled in different directions as pondering ...
• Exploring peripheral member engagement in a virtual health care professionals’ network 

  Ying, Ho-Wang Tom (2018-12-21)

  Peripheral members, or lurkers, make up the majority of membership in an online network, but not much is known about them as they are not publicly active (e.g. Post online). Data on the lurker population of Nurses and ...
• In the name of cancer nursing: organizational change and oncology practices 

  Stevenson, Roberta Lynn (2018-11-22)

  This dissertation studies a process of change as evidenced in the everyday conduct of cancer nursing within the context of the ambulatory care setting. The purpose of this study was to explicate relationships of leaders ...
• Health within illness: experiences of the chronically ill/disabled 

  Liz, Lindsey (2018-07-11)

  Chronic illnesses and disabilities are the number one health problems in North America, and are the health challenges of this era. Many studies have investigated the illness experience for people with chronic conditions, ...
• Women who are mothers: experiences of self-definition 

  Hartrick, Gweneth Ann (2018-07-11)

  Recent literature has challenged traditional views of women's development of self . Many scholars have suggested that the traditional concept of self-as-autonomous being does not reflect women's experiences. Further, ...
• Women with breast cancer and their living in and through discourses : a feminist postmodern study 

  Bassett-Smith, Joan L. (2018-05-25)

  This feminist postmodern praxis oriented research investigates the journey and discourses of women living with breast cancer. This study explores the ways in which discourses and health care practices are implicated in ...
• Re: Turning the gaze: racialized nurses’ insights into their nursing education in Canada 

  Monteiro, Andréa (2018-05-18)

  In Canada, nursing education and practice are enacted in the context of a white settler nation-state. As part of their mandates, nursing schools uphold concepts such as multiculturalism, equity, and diversity; however, ...
• Weaving the sweetgrass and porcupine quill birch box into a methodology: the living stories of chronic kidney disease for First Nations People 

  Smith, Mary (2018-04-30)

  The thunderstorm encroaches, the smoky raven like clouds float over my spirit. This writing takes place at a time of mourning, a deep and lonesome sadness for family relations who have passed over the last few years, many ...
• Impact of telehealth on access to care for community-dwelling older adults with chronic illness. 

  Lee, Kyoung Yong (2018-04-18)

  Telehealth has great potential for providing timely and comprehensive care to community-dwelling older adults while reducing their barriers to healthcare access. The purpose of this study is to understand how older adults ...
• Study of factors associated with fall-related injuries among frail older adults 

  Scott, Victoria Janice (2018-02-01)

  Falls are the most frequent cause of injury-related hospitalization and death for people 65 years and older in Canada (Canadian Institute of Health Information, 1998; Langlois et al., 1995; Raina & Torrance, 1996). Studies ...
• Walking on unstable ground: exploring registered nurses’ and licensed practical nurses’ experiences of learning to work together using a methodologically plural approach 

  Butcher, Diane (2017-08-30)

  My own experiences of disjuncture sparked questions related to how practical nursing education is situated within the larger nursing disciplinary landscape. On acute care nursing units, work relationships are changing ...
• Capturing culturally safe nursing care 

  Lewis, Adrienne (2017-08-28)

  ABSTRACT This thesis represents a two phase, qualitative study using both Expert Review Panel and Delphi Panel research methods. The two research questions guiding this study were: 1) Phase I: What does culturally ...
• Public health nursing: What difference does it make for priority perinatal women? 

  Hill, Mary Eleanor (2017-08-28)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate how routine, day-to-day public health nursing (PHN) practice in one BC health authority affected health outcomes related to breastfeeding initiation and duration, infant ...
• Evaluation of education and support initiatives for family caregivers 

  Hagen, Brad Francis (2017-06-16)

  As Canada’s population gradually ages, provinces such as British Columbia are beginning to explore initiatives to support family caregivers of the frail elderly. The focus of this dissertation is the evaluation of one ...

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