• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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