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2024-04-27

Chamberlain, Stephanie A.

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: This application seeks funding for the 53rd Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG). The three-day conference entitled "AGEnts of Change: Unraveling Complexity and Advancing Transformation" recognizes the potential for the...

2012

Linda Joan Ormson

This study has explored the concept of how one’s sense of spirit has deepened by providing spiritual care to patients and residents in a rural hospital, hospice and long term care facilities. Using an organic inquiry method of research, the researcher’s story begins this study from her passion...

2018-11-16

Aime, Rachelle, Cipkar, Emily, Hines, Darby, McFarlane, Lu-Anne, Suleman, Salima

Participants in an interprofessional educational seminar between student SLPs and education students were surveyed. The seminar incorporated video, online learner-led activities, traditional facilitator-led learning and completion of a case study. eClass site provided students access to...

2018-11-16

George, Sneha, Komarnicki, Lauren, Weishaupt, Annie, Ruelling, Andrea, Werther, Karin, Kim, Esther

The Alberta Aphasia Camp (ABAC) is a weekend retreat, providing recreational and therapeutic activities for people with aphasia and their caregivers. The camp was staffed by an interprofessional team and provided an opportunity for students to collaborate and apply classroom knowledge in a...

2013

Elaine Greta MacInnis

This project/dissertation began with the question: Is it possible to alleviate or diminish a person’s pain and suffering in the transitional space from the time of the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness throughout the illness trajectory until death, and his or her family’s subsequent...

2015

Olson, Joanne, Brémault-Phillips, Suzette, Sinclair, Shane, Parmar, Jasneet, Weis, Jeanne, Abbasi, Marjan, Puchalski, Christina M., Magnus, Ralph, Brett-MacLean, Pamela, Oneschuk, Doreen

Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a...

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...

Spring 2011

Dhamani, Khairunnisa

Spirituality is an integral part of a person’s wholeness and therefore has an effect on and plays an important role in health and illness. Nurses are required by national and international nursing bodies as well as hospital accreditation agencies, to identify patients’ spiritual needs and...

2011-06-01

Paterson, Kayla

It is commonly believed that collaboration enhances quality of life for both practicing professionals and for their clients (D’Amour & Oandasan, 2005). Hebert (2005) comments that “many of us are ‘true believers’ in interprofessional practice” (Herbert, 2005, p.3), suggesting that the voice of...

2012-02-08

Kapoor-Cardinal, Sharon

Interprofessional collaboration is prevalent in the healthcare field. Both students and practitioners are expected to take part in interprofessional collaboration. Most research focuses on the positive aspects of interprofessional collaboration, which includes better patient care, lower...