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Spring 2013

MacDonald, Shannon E.

High levels of immunization coverage are required to maintain control of infectious diseases that previously caused significant illness and death in Canada. However, childhood immunizations have been so successful that many Canadians have never seen the impact of these diseases, with some parents...

Spring 2023

Rolle, Shamel Yvonne

Background: Nurses in The Bahamas like their colleagues across the globe have had to navigate the varied effects of the protracted COVID-19 pandemic on their work environments. One of the effects was the exacerbation of already low/limited availability of job resources (e.g., staff and...

Fall 2019

Duarte Wisnesky, Uira

The purpose of this pre-feasibility study was two-fold: first, to examine perceptions and experiences of mobility challenges in the urban Brazilian community-dwelling older persons; second, to examine study participants’ perceptions about a sit-to-stand activity. The method of exploration was...

Spring 2016

Howell, Christine J

Researchers in the fields of psychology and business have studied workplace bullying since the 1980s, and more recently it has gained attention in the healthcare arena. It is of specific interest to nurses, as nurses are reported to have the highest prevalence rates among health professionals....

Fall 2014

Sommerfeldt, Susan C.

My investigation lives in the borderlands of health sciences research where inquiry, nursing and healthcare practices intersect in inter-disciplinary spaces. The relational aspects of nurses and other healthcare practitioners working together with patients is the area of my inquiry into the...

Fall 2016

Pando Lopez, Luis A

This dissertation deals with the introduction of competition in regulated industries such as natural gas. The thesis focuses on the recently developed Colombian natural gas market and uses a more mature market, the deregulated gas market existing in the province of Alberta, Canada, as a benchmark...

Fall 2014

Bourque, Raymonde Lisa L.

“Mâmawoh kamâtowin: Coming Together To Help Each Other: Honouring Indigenous Nursing Knowledge is the result of coming to know and understand my own Indigenous experience while working with four Indigenous nurse scholars Alice Reid, Evelyn Voyageur, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Lea Bill. Using an...

Fall 2013

Smitten, Jayne

Over the past decade in particular, high-fidelity simulation technology has been readily embraced and is increasingly expanding as an innovative approach to the teaching and learning process involved in preparing nursing students for the clinical setting. To date, there are no studies that...

Fall 2017

Ritchie,Vanessa S

Objective: To increase our understanding of moral distress experienced by nurse practitioners in the continuing care setting Design: This qualitative study employed an interpretive description approach in which participants in a major urban center in Western Canada were interviewed about their...

Fall 2017

Aluwihare-Samaranayake, Dilmi S

ABSTRACT Retention of nursing staff is a worldwide concern. Inadequate workforce planning, resource constrained undersupply of new nurses, underdeveloped recruitment, retention and return policies, poor incentive and career support structures and complex quality of work-life environments compete...