- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Nursing education and management
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Medical Device Sterilization and Disinfection
McGill University
2006-2025
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
2017-2025
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
2016-2025
Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
2020-2025
Université du Québec en Outaouais
2010-2024
McMaster University
2010-2024
Dalhousie University
2010-2024
Toronto Metropolitan University
2010-2024
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
2019-2024
McGill University Health Centre
2022-2024
Interpretive phenomenology presents a unique methodology for inquiring into lived experience, yet few scholarly articles provide methodological guidelines researchers, and many studies lack coherence with the methodology’s philosophical foundations. This article contributes to filling these gaps in qualitative research by examining following question: What are key considerations of leading an interpretive phenomenological study? An exploration phenomenology’s foundations, including...
Title confusion and lack of role clarity pose barriers to the integration advanced practice nursing roles (i.e., clinical nurse specialist [CNS] practitioner [NP]). Lack awareness understanding about NP CNS among healthcare team public contributes ambiguous expectations, scopes turf protection. This paper draws on results a scoping review literature qualitative key informant interviews conducted for decision support synthesis commissioned by Canadian Health Services Research Foundation...
Primary healthcare nurse practitioners (PHCNPs), also known as family or all-ages practitioners, are the fastest growing advanced practice nursing role in Canada. All 10 provinces and three territories now have legislation that authorizes their role. Their introduction is linked to countrywide health reform efforts improve accessibility quality of primary healthcare.
kilpatrick k., lavoie‐tremblay m., ritchie j.a., lamothe l. & doran d. (2012) Boundary work and the introduction of acute care nurse practitioners in healthcare teams. Journal Advanced Nursing 68 (7), 1504–1515. Abstract Aim. This article is a report study boundary following an practitioner role Background. Acute enacting their roles teams have faced number challenges including mix positive negative views from team members crossing boundaries between medical nursing professions....
Role clarity is a crucial issue for effective interprofessional collaboration. Poorly defined roles can become source of conflict in clinical teams and reduce the effectiveness care services delivered to population. Our objective this paper outline processes clarifying professional when new role introduced into teams, that primary healthcare nurse practitioner (PHCNP). To support our empirical analysis we used Canadian National Interprofessional Competency Framework, which defines essential...
Integrating Nurse Practitioners into primary care teams is a process that involves significant challenges. To be successful, nurse practitioner integration requires, among other things, redefinition of professional boundaries, in particular those medicine and nursing, coherent model inter- intra- collaboration, team-based work processes make the best use subsidiarity principle. There have been numerous studies on integration, literature provides comprehensive list barriers to, facilitators...
A strong and effective primary care capacity has been demonstrated to be crucial for controlling costs, improving outcomes, ultimately enhancing the performance sustainability of healthcare systems. However, current challenges are such that future is unlikely an extension dominant model. Profound environmental accumulating likely drive significant transformation in field. In this article we build upon concept "disruptive innovations" analyze data from two separate research projects conducted...
In Canada, as in other parts of the world, there is geographic maldistribution nursing workforce, and insufficient attention paid to strengths needs those providing care rural remote settings. order inform workforce planning, a national study, Nursing Practice Rural Remote Canada II, was conducted with regulated (registered nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed or registered practical psychiatric nurses) intent informing policy planning about improving services access care. this article,...
In the past decade, all Canadian provinces and territories have launched various team-based primary healthcare initiatives designed to improve access continuity of care. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly becoming integral members teams across country. This paper draws on results a scoping review literature qualitative key informant interviews conducted for decision support synthesis about advanced practice nursing in Canada. We describe analyze two novel approaches NP integration...