Too Little, Too Late: How we fail vulnerable Canadians as they die and what to do about it (Report summary)
By Dr Kelli Stajduhar, UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health For most Canadians, good palliative care is still not a given, despite its many proven benefits. This is especially true for people who experience poverty, homelessness, disability, racialization, or...
#newideas
I recently met with UVic Nursing Professor Dr. Debra Sheets. She has an exciting new project called Ease e-Home. She is working with geriatrician Dr. Marilyn Malone to use Amazon Echo in homes of people who have mild cognitive impairment. They are trialing it to see...
We don’t really need physician assistants, thanks for asking
By Damien Contandriopoulos, UVic School of Nursing Anyone who has been paying attention to health care developments in BC will have noticed that we are in the midst of a well-orchestrated campaign from the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants asking BC to...
New Faculty Bio & Teaching Philosophies
Leanne Kelly, BA, BSN, MN | Assistant Teaching Professor I am Cree/Metis, originally from Saskatchewan, and am a U of S grad (Go Huskies!) I moved to Vancouver Island in 1994 with my husband. We have two sons who are West Coast boys now and will probably never...
What Being a Teacher Means: Looking Through a Student Lens
By Erika Stewart and Stefanie Lamont As Bachelor of Science in Nursing students at Camosun College and the University of Victoria (UVic), we take every opportunity to learn from our teachers. What we value most is learning from all their different teaching styles and...
Teaching Peer Review
A Collaborative Venture Engaging a Community of Teachers at the University of Victoria, School of Nursing By Jeannine Moreau, RN, BSN, PhD; Karen MacKinnon, RN, MScN, PhD; Coby Tschanz, RN, MN, PhD (c) Peer review of one’s teaching and learning (TL) practices can...
Working & Learning Across Difference in PhD Studies: What’s To Be Gained?
By Jeannine Moreau, Marcy Antonio, Lacie White As three PhD students, Jeannine, Marcy, and Lacie, we offer what we see as similarities, despite differences, in our doctoral studies and how these precipitated insights gained. We illustrate the variety of possibilities...
20 Years of Popcorn & Chocolate
The Grounded Theory Club (GTC) at UVic By Lenora Marcellus, Marjorie MacDonald, Rita Schreiber, Silvia Vilches, Susan Tasker, Darlaine Jantzen, Steve Gentles, Faye Strohschein, Michelle Phoenix, Mindy Swami Background With the development of the collaborative nursing...
Teaching & Learning in Rapidly Changing Acute Care Contexts
By Diane Butcher, RN PhD How are RNs and LPNs learning to work together amidst siloed educational programs, shifting LPN scopes of practice, role ambiguity, and expectations to work within functionally-orientated teams in acute care? Adopting a methodologically plural...
Conversations with New Sessional Clinical Faculty
Expert Clinician to Novice Clinical Faculty By Deanna Hutchings, BScN, MN | Sessional Support Coordinator Experienced nursing clinicians who choose to become sessional teaching faculty bring a wealth of clinical knowledge and experience to their new roles and a desire...
Wrapping Up & Unfolding as I Move from One Career to the Next
By Jeannine Moreau, RN, PhD As I wrap up seven years of PhD studies at Sydney University, Australia and take on the title of Doctor in Philosophy I am in the process of another career unfolding. A career I see as following my leaving (also known by some as...
SIM Research Overview
By Maureen M. Ryan RN, BN, MN, PhD The practice of ‘patient simulation’ in health care and nursing education has gone beyond the practicalities of how to create a simulation centre and has progressed to evaluation of teaching practices and scholarship. If we turn to...
Exploring the End-of-Life Experiences of Structurally Vulnerable People in Victoria
By Kelli Stajduhar, RN, PhD, Ashley Mollison, MA & Bernie Pauly, RN, PhD People experiencing structural vulnerability such as poverty, homelessness, racialization, and criminalization and stigmatization of illicit drug use and/or mental health issues, suffer from...
Student Research Study: Evaluating a PDSA Trial
By Heather Willey, 4th year BSN student In my community nursing leadership placement, I was involved in a major project known as the Eldercare Project of Cowichan (EPIC). As a step in the process of healthcare improvement in the Cowichan Valley Regional District, a...
2017 JCURA Nominations
The following students have received JCURA awards for the coming academic year and will be working on the research projects below starting September 2017. Caregiver Awareness to Support Elders (CARE) Project Student: Alison White Family support is essential for frail...
Exploring Nursing Student’s Perceptions of Simulation Pedagogy Across the Four Years of the BSN Curriculum (2016 JCURA winner)
India Wiebe 4th Year Nursing Supervisor: Maureen Ryan How simulation is experienced and taken up by nursing students across the four years of a BSN curriculum is not well understood. We believe critically examining how nursing students understand and value simulation...
Super InTent City: Media Portrayals of Homelessness (2016 JCURA winner)
Morgan McCarthy 4th Year Nursing Supervisor: Bernadette Pauly, RN, PhD In Canada, as many as 300,000 people experience homelessness in a given year. There are more than 1400 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in Victoria, BC. People who are homeless...
Faculty research study: Nurses’ practice experience with medical assistance in dying (MAiD)
Island Health Seed Grant Award: $5,000.00 These awards provide initial funding to new and developing Island Health researchers. These seed grants are intended to engage health professionals in research, to support the acquisition of research experience, and to...
Musical Connections: A Descriptive Study of Community-Based Choirs for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers (2016 JCURA winner)
Zachary Anderson Completed BSN program 2017 Supervisor: Debra Sheets This descriptive qualitative study explores the key characteristics, benefits, and lessons learned from community-based choirs for persons with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers (CGs). Although...
Conference overview: ITCH 2017
Translating Knowledge Across Nursing and Health Information Science By Marcy Antonio, PhD(c), MPH, BSc & Dr. Noreen Frisch, PhD, RN The bi-annual international conference addressing Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH) was held in Victoria on...
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