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| Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty (alphabetically)Elizabeth Banister, RN, BScN, MA, PhD Areas of Interest: Adolescent sexual health education; adolescent relational aggression; mentoring; knowledge translation; ethnography Anne Bruce, BSN, PhD Areas of Interest: End of life care; contemplative practices in health and healing; mindfulness meditation; volunteerism in hospice care; interpretive inquiry Elizabeth (Betty) Davies, RN, PhD, CT, FAAN Areas of Interest: Palliative and end-0life care, particularly pediatric palliative care; family bereavement; cultural considerations; health professionals and care of the dying; thanatology; oncology; qualitative methods; collaborative, participatory research. Gweneth Doane, RN, BSN, MA, PhD Areas of Interest: Family and women's health; ethics, learning and teaching, interdisciplinary education and practice Noreen Frisch, BSN, MSN, MSW, PhD Areas of Interest: Holistic nursing practice, nursing language and classification, and student development Elaine Gallagher, RN, BSN, MPA, MS, PhD Areas of Interest: Health of older persons; evaluation research; social support/stress Su-Er Guo, RN, BSN, MSN, PhD Areas of Interest: Self-care and health behaviours for chronic desease, particularly lung disease; smoking and second hand tobacco smoke exposure; HIV/AIDS care and clinical managment; transcultural nursing; quantitative research Marcia Hills, RN, BSN, MA, PhD Areas of Interest: Health promotion; curriculum development; family health; participatory action research; international health Marjorie MacDonald, RN, BN, MSc, PhD Areas of Interest: Health promotion; community/public health; adolescent health; social and health policy; health program evaluation; advanced nursing practice; primary health care; qualitative research Karen MacKinnon,
RN, PNC (C) BScN, MScN, PhD Areas of Interest: Rural maternity care and perinatal nursing; interprofessional practice and education; the social organization of women's childbearing experiences and Institutional Ethnography. Joan MacNeil, RN, BScN, MHSc, PhD Areas of Interest: Transcultural nursing and development of nursing theory; humanistic care; HIV/AIDS care and clinical management; harm reduction; improving access to services and promoting health for vulnerable populations e.g. homeless, injecting drug users, First Nations, people in developing countries. Lenora Marcellus, RN, BSN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Neonatal nursing, transition of the high risk newborn to the community, creating supportive environments for neonatal development, perinatal substance use, women's health, leadership, quality improvement. Carol McDonald, RN, PhD Areas of Interest: The soci-political context of women’s health, in particular the experiences of underserved groups such as older women and lesbian women; feminist hermeneutics and interpretive inquiry Marjorie McIntyre, BSN, MSN, PhD Areas of Interest: Philosophical/historical issues in nursing; feminist critique of women’s healthcare practice; hermeneutics Jane Milliken, RN, BScN, MA, PhD Areas of Interest: Social causes and consequences of illness; mental health; telehealth; aging; grounded theory Jill Milne, BN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Urology, promotion of urinary continence, women's health, health promotion, quality of life, informed and shared decision-making, patient-centred and patient-generated outcomes, qualitative and quantitative research methods, mixed-methods research designs. Bernie Pauly, BSN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Nursing ethics; health policy ethics; harm reduction; health inequities; access to health care; homelessness; addiction; HIV/AIDS. Mary Ellen Purkis, RN, BN, MSc, PhD Areas of Interest: Social accomplishment of nursing practice; effects of contemporary health care discourses (health promotion and self care) on nurses' practices; ethnography and discourse analysis James Ronan, BSN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Health promotion and healing; primary care; nurse practitioner roles; health policy critique; global health in the context of neoliberalism and globalization constructs. Methods: qualitative-content analysis, grounded theory, narrative analysis, discourse analysis; quantitative-descriptive methodology. Scholarship interests: contemporary philosophy, Kant forward, especially Foucault, Deleuze & Guattari. Esther Sangster-Gormley, MS, PhD(c) (Dalhousie University) Areas of Interest: Primary health care, the role and function of the nurse practitioner in the delivery of primary health care. The acceptance role of the nurse practitioner by patients, physicians and health care administrators, and integration of the role into the health system. Debra Sheets, RN-BC, MSN, CNE, PhD Areas of Interest: Gerontology, health promotion, humanities, arts and aging, family caregivers, guided autobiography, geriatric nursing education, evaluation research, and end-of-life care. Rita Schreiber, RN, BA, MS, DNS Areas of Interest: Women's mental health; depression; psychiatric-mental health nursing; professional misconduct; advanced nursing practice; grounded theory Laurene Sheilds, RN, BSN, MS, PhD Areas of Interest: Community, Health Promotion, Empowerment, Community Nursing Practice, Life Threatening Illness and Events, Connectedness, People’s Experiences of Health, Illness and Healing, Narrative Inquiry, Feminist Research, Story as a Metaphor of Healing, Spirituality Kelli Stajduhar, BSN, MSN, PhD Areas of Interest: Palliative and end-of-life care; family caregiving; home care; HIV/AIDS; oncology; vulnerable and marginalized populations; gerontology; health services research; qualitative and quantitative research methods; mixed method study design; collaborative, participatory research Rosalie Starzomski, RN, BN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Health care and nursing ethics, nephrology nursing, transplantation/organ donation, ethical issues related to biotechnology (e.g. genetic testing for polycystic kidney disease), health and social policy (e.g. consumer involvement in health care decision making), interdisciplinary collaboration, leadership and advanced nursing practice. Deborah Thoun, RN, BN, MN, PhD Areas of Interest: Nursing theory based research; research methodologies congruent with human science perspective; exploration of lived experience such as time passing, suffering, facing the unknown Lynne Young, BSN, MSN, PhD Areas of Interest: Family influence on individual response to heart-health initiatives; critical qualitative methodology conducted with research programmes that include quantitative approaches Senior Instructors (alphabetically)Karen Evers-Fahey,
BScN, MSN, PhD Areas of Interest: Health promotion; chronic disease management; seniors' health Mary Lougheed, RN, BScN, MN Areas of Interest: Nursing as social practice; effects of technology in everyday nursing practice; and research to develop "best practices" Jeannine Moreau, BSN, MN Areas of Interest: Critical discourse analysis; women and violence; women's health and health promotion; feminism and postmodernism; and nursing education Wendy Neander, BSc, BScN, MN Areas of Interest: Community health; international health; and primary health care Maureen Ryan, BN, MN Areas of Interest: Relational practice with families and communities; family interventions Margaret Scaia, BScN, MN Areas of Interest: Women's health and the social and historical construction of women's roles in society. Areas of Interest: Nursing education; community health nursing; family nursing; and children/young adults with disabilities Coby Tschanz,
BN, MN Areas of Interest: Hospice palliative care nursing, nursing philosophy, nursing theory-guided practice and research. Research interests focus in the areas of spirituality and human experiences such as bearing witness. Nancy Wright, RN, BSN, MN Areas of Interest: Women's health; grounded theory methodology; and health care policy |
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