School of Nursing is involved in research which is recognised by the professional nursing association and by health care agencies as a valuable resource for practice-based research and education. Members of the Faculty are carrying out a wide variety of individual research projects and are collaborating with others both inside and outside the nursing discipline. Faculty are currently working on the three Tri-Council Eco-Project, the Women's Health Network, and international projects in Belize and Nigeria.
BANOUB-BADDOUR, Suzan Associate professor
Keywords
• Qualitative research; survey research
Current research
• High school students' knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding
• Teen mothers and breastfeeding practices
• Physicians attitudes towards breastfeeding, and the need
for a related Web-based course
Past research
• Survey of infant feeding practices in Newfoundland and
Labrador (1984-1994)
• A scale for identifying at-risk families in pediatric oncology
settings
• The effect of a TV promotional campaign on the knowledge
and attitudes of adolescent women
Potential research
• Nursing interventions with at-risk families in a pediatric
onocology setting
• Longitudinal study of breastfeeding practices among teen
mothers
BEATON, Marilyn Associate professor
Keywords
• Age and management
Current research
• Health care needs of baby boomers (with Assoc. Prof. Margaret
Hackett)
Potential research
• Impact of collaborative professional practices on patient
outcomes (with Dr. Carole Orchard)
BENNETT, Lorna Associate professor
Keywords
• Adolescent health and family violence
Current research
• Community health needs and resources assessment
• Looking after children in Canada, a project
Past research
• Project Teen Newfoundland
• Women's perceptions of their children's needs in women's
shelters
• The lived experience of witnessing violence
• Adolescent girls, a phenomenological violence study
Potential research
• Spirituality in adolescence
• Follow-up research for Project Teen Newfoundland
BEST, Donna Assistant professor
Keywords
• Nutrition and cardiovascular disease; community assessments;
smoking in adolescents; family functioning and cardiovascular
disease
Current research
• Smoking teens, the experience of non-smoking parents
• Community health needs and resources assessment
• Student progress through the bachelor of nursing program,
Phase II
Past research
• Nutrition as a risk for CVD in females
• Description of student progress through the BN program,
Phase I
• Nutrient intakes of BN students
Potential research
• Advanced nursing practices
BLAKELEY, Judith Associate professor
Keywords
• Health promotion and disease prevention strategy effectiveness;
program evaluation; community assessment
Current research
• Perceived effectiveness of non-traditional approaches to
osteoarthritis management
• Community assessment, St. John's and western regions
• Osteoarthritis workshop, an evaluation
Past research
• Child sexual abuse, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour
of child care workers
• Patient satisfaction with their children's central venous
access devices
• Women's knowledge and practices in the prevention and treatment
of osteoporosis
Potential research
• Perceived effectiveness of alternative and complementary
therapies
GAUDINE, Alice Assistant professor
Keywords
• Nursing administration; ethics; volunteers
Current research
• Absenteeism
• Ethical conflicts for nurses
• Transfer of training
Past research
• Emotional and ethical decision-making
Potential research
• Volunteers as employees in health care
GIEN, Lan Professor
Keywords
• Medication use; social support; elderly; health promotion;
HIV infection/AIDS; women's health; program evaluation; multiculturalism
and health; self-care
Current research
• Eco-research (Employment, unemployment and health)
• Health promotion among the elderly, e.g. medication and
falls
• HIV infection/AIDS
• Social support and health
Past research
• Evaluation of programs
• Medication use and misuses among the elderly
• Living with HIV infection/AIDS
Potential research
• Social support for the elderly, living at home with dementia
• Education and use of medications in various age cohorts
• Caregiver stress in caring for HIV/AIDS patients
HACKETT, Margaret B. Associate professor
Keywords
• Baby boomers; long-term care
Current research
• Baby boomers perceptions of long-term care service needs
Past research
• Students' perception of levels and sources of stress, university
professional schools
LARYEA, Maureen Associate professor
Keywords
• Childbirth; breast cancers; resilience; cross-cultural
patterns of childbirth; infant nutrition; health promotion
Current research
• Breast cancer
• Infant nutrition
• Cross-cultural patterns in childbirth preparation
Past research
• Impact of HIV diagnosis on individuals
• Evaluation of mental health programs in Belize
• Use of cervical smear service by low-income women
Potential research
• The meaning of breast cancer for Innu and Innuit women
• Prostate cancer
• Resilience among young single mothers
• Program evaluations
LEFORT, Sandra M. Associate professor
Keywords
• Adjustment to chronic illness; pain and symptom management;
health care delivery systems; rural health; self-help interventions
Current research
• Self-help intervention for those with chronic pain
• Community needs assessment, Grenfell Region
• Evaluating the impact of acute care nursing practitioners
Past research
• Exercise and low back pain
• Primary health care, community needs assessment
• Predictors of chronic pain
Potential research
• Pain management studies
• Trans-cultural studies of chronic illness
• Health promotion
• Program evaluation
MACDONALD, Sandra A. Assistant professor
Keywords
• Program evaluation; community health needs and resources
assessment; cardiovascular health promotion; AIDS interdisciplinary
teaching
Current research
• Community health needs and resources assessment, St. John's
and western Newfoundland
Past research
• AIDS educational programs, an evaluation
• Cardiovascular health educational programs, an evaluation
• AIDS interdisciplinary teaching modules, an evaluation
Potential research
• Health promotional programs, design and evaluation
• Interdisciplinary education
MATTHEWS, M. Kay Associate professor
Keywords
• Women and infant health care; program evaluations
Current research
• Evaluation of a safe motherhood project in Ghana, West
Africa
• Studies to evaluate the effectiveness of Misoprostil in
the prevention of postpartum hemmorhage in rural and urban West
Africa
• Collaboration in community and women's health studies in
Indonesia
Past research
• Effects of drugs in Labour on infant breastfeeding behaviours
• Experiences of primiparous breastfeeding mothers
• A provincial survey of infant feeding practices in Newfoundland
and Labrador (with Banoub-Baddour, S. Laryea, M. McKim, E and
Webber, K.)
• The influence of cultural beliefs, values, attitudes and
practices on utilization of health services in southeastern Nigeria
(with Abasiekong, E. M. and Walley, R.L)
• Evaluation of safe motherhood (primary prevention project)
in southeastern Nigeria
MCKIM, Edna Associate professor
Keywords
• Neonates; healthy baby clubs; analgesia; premature infants;
caffeine
Research specialty
• Care of neonates
Current research
• An evaluation of community-based prenatal education and
supports: experiences of women attending healthy baby clubs (with
Way, Earle-Crane, McKim and Manning)
• Analgesia with Prilocaine-Lidocaine cream or oral sucrose
solution in premature neonates (with Law, McKim, Aziz, Andrews,
Randell and Kwa)
Past research
• Information and support needs for mothers of premature
infants
• Social support and neonatal outcomes
• The transition to home for mothers of healthy and initially
ill newborn babies
• Infant feeding practices in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Caffeine effects on pregnancy and neonates
Potential research
• Developmental interventions with high-risk infants
MORALEJO, Donna Assistant professor
Keywords
• Infection control; Infectious disease epidemiology
Current research
• Bias in surveillance of antibiotic resistance
• Understanding handwashing behaviour
ORCHARD, Carole Associate professor
Keywords
• Nursing education; international students; TOEFL; Pakistan
Research specialty
• Nursing education, critical thinking and self-directed
learning
• Hospital management, continuity of patient care (an interdisciplinary
collaboration)
Current research
• Impact of collaborative professional practices on patient
outcomes
• Factors influencing self-directed learning in international
nursing students
Past research
• Faculty perceptions and attitudes effecting participation
in international nursing projects
• Relationship between TOEFL admission scores and international
student success in baccalaureate students
• Factors influencing application to nursing diploma studies
in Pakistan
Potential research
• Relationship between nurses actual and perceived excessive
workload in hospital practices
SMALL, Sandra Associate professor
Keywords
• Respiratory health and illness
Current research
• Adolescent smoking
Past research
• Adolescent smoking
• Fatigue in chronic lung disease
• Predictors of academic progress in nursing
• Nutrition for the elderly
• Symptoms and psychologic functioning in chronic lung disease
Potential research
• Parents adaptation to childhood asthma
• Parents adaptation to adolescent smoking
SOLBERG, Shirley M. Associate professor
Keywords
• Women's health; employment/unemployment and health; caregiving;
social support (for breast cancer) and the health of the community;
population health; health determinants; occupational health
Current research
• Cancer prevention, smoking among adolescents (Canadian
Nurses Respiratory Society and the Canadian Lung Association)
• Social and environmental restructuring (MCRI), effects
on health
Past research
• Caregiver-infant comfort
• Health effects of cod moratoruim (Tri-council)
• Social support for rural women with breast cancer (MCEWH)
Potential research
• Cancer prevention and smoking
• Occupational health
WALSH, Jeannette Assistant professor
Keywords
• Distance education; technology; angina
Research specialty
• Support and service needs of students enrolled in a professional
degree program and studying via distance education
Current research
• Impact of technology on the learning experiences of students
studying via distance education
• Project designed to enhance learning opportunities for
adult learners enrolled in professional degree program, offered
via distance education
Past research
• Patients perception of risk following the onset of angina
and their efforts to modify lifestyle
WAY, Christine Associate professor
Keywords
• Interpretive ethnography; instrument development and Psychonetric
testing; evaluative research; primary health care; patient and
consumer quality of care; attitudes and well-being of health care
providers
Current research
• Impact of restructuring on employees of health care organizations
• Patient perception of hemodyalysis and health-related quality
of life
• Evaluation of nurses working in extended roles in primary
health care settings
Past research
• Evaluation of healthy baby clubs
Potential research
• Chronic illness and family members' coping abilities
• Effectiveness and efficiency of nursing models in primary
health care settings, a profile
WEBBER, Karen Assistant professor
Keywords
• Hemodialysis; nurses; extended care
Research specialty
• Strategies to manage chronic illness in adult, qualitative
research
Current research
• Self-help strategies for chronic pain
• Interventions for managing cardiovascular disease
Past research
• Infant feeding practices of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Effects of participation in a hospital-based intervention
program for family functioning and patient recovery after CABG
surgery
• Coping strategies of spousal support persons after myocardial
infraction
• Assessment of computer literacy in nursing students and
faculty
• Canadian computerized, patient-information management systems
• Recovery after myocardial infraction
Potential research
• Qualitative studies in managing chronic illness
• International health (women)
• Alternative and complementary health care
WESTERA, Doreen Associate professor
Keywords
• Adolescent health; spirituality and health
Past research
• Project Teen Newfoundland, a survey of 15 - to 19 year-olds
Potential research
• Replication of above study
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