Monthly Archives: September 2010

“Building a model of social inequalities in caregiving relationships”

This is one of my earliest research presentations, and was part of my literature review for my Master’s research.  It was presented at the Western Research Forum, which is a venue for graduate students at UWO to present their work, … Continue reading

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“A fading focus on health promotion”

This was a fun presentation I did for a local CURA on mental health and housing.  I used concepts gleaned from my health promotion courses to explore how population health might actually be a move away from how health promotion … Continue reading

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“Ideologies of Health Promotion and Community Health”

This was a poster I created for the first national conference of CHNIG/CHNAC.  It came out of a course I did with Dr. Carol McWilliam on health care systems.  It was entitled “Ideologies of Health Promotion and Community Health” (click … Continue reading

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“Palliative care and homelessness: Is dying with dignity possible?”

This poster was presented at the Ontario Gerontology Association conference in 2007, and was at the nexus of my Master’s work on palliative care, and my Doctoral work on homelessness.  It is a thread that was lost in my dissertation … Continue reading

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“Providing critique in health promotion research: Exposing oppression in a meaningful way”

In my advanced Health Promotion class, we were to engage with a specific health promotion research issue.  I chose to explore the experience I encountered in my Master’s research of sharing difficult findings with our participants.  I presented this paper … Continue reading

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“Clients’ perspectives of home-based palliative care: An experience of powerlessness”

My Master’s research on power within client-provider relationships in home-based palliative care was part of a larger study.  So, when we presented, we each took certain pieces of the study to focus on.  As I was focusing on power, we … Continue reading

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Negotiating Care: Power relationships within families providing home-based dementia care

As a research coordinator for Dr. Catherine Ward-Griffin’s home-based dementia care study, I had an opportunity to do some of my own analysis on presentations on power within caregiving relationships.  I shared a piece of this as the Canadian Association … Continue reading

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Project work and the community health nurse

I was contracted by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to do some work exploring the local Hepatitis C situation.  I was selected as my workplace, the London InterCommunity Health Centre was a lead agency, and I had experience … Continue reading

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“Exploring Space and Place in Community-Based Healthcare with Homeless Persons”

The Community Health Nurses Initiatives Group (CHNIG) and the Community Health Nurses Association of Canada (CHNAC) hold a joint conference annually which I have attended since its inception.  This year I presented a component from my dissertation findings looking at … Continue reading

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“Engaging in critical ethnography: Navigating multiple roles”

I am a member of the local chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Iota Omicron Chapter.  The IO Chapter has an annual nursing research conference, and in 2009 I presented a piece on my experiences of using critical ethnography … Continue reading

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