Wellness and Healing Across the Lifespan

Faculty Research Interests | Recent Publications

Mental Health
Factors affecting mental health treatment effectiveness | Jeannette LeGris 
Mental health and housing | Ruth Schofield 
Psychosocial issues of serious mental illness | Janet Landeen

Gerontology
End of life care | Patricia Strachan 
Evaluation of health services for older adults and their caregivers | Jenny Ploeg
Geriatric nursing | Kathy Sleeth
Home care | Maureen Markle-Reid
Medication use in older adults | Sharon Kaasalainen, Maureen Markle-Reid
Pain management in long-term care | Sharon Kaasalainen, Maureen Markle-Reid 
Charlotte Noesgaard
Pamela Baxter

Violence and Injury Prevention
Child abuse | Karen Moncrieff, Susan Jack
Intimate partner violence | Susan Jack
Prevention of family violence | Susan Jack

Cardiovascular
Cardiac care in women | Gerry Benson
Cardiac rehabilitation | Heather Arthur
Familial aggregation of heart disease risk factors | Ruth Chen
Heart failure | Patricia Strachan
Type A behaviour pattern/ hostility | Heather Arthur
Women and heart disease | Heather Arthur, Patricia Strachan

Cancer
Access to breast and cervical cancer screening | Margaret Black 
Brain tumors and patient care needs | Joanna Pierazzo
Breast cancer and nursing care | Carolyn Ingram
Cancer symptom management | Carolyn Ingram
Exercise and nutrition in cancer care | Carolyn Ingram
Supportive cancer care | Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Carolyn Ingram

Other
Acute pain management | Eric Staples 
Caregiver health | Jennifer Salfi
Developing counselling competence | Jeanette LeGris 
Goal attainment scaling | Jennifer Skelly
Mechanisms of cell response to stimuli | John Vickers 
Medical-surgical nursing | Kathy Sleeth
Neuropsychopharmacology, Microneurochemistry | Kirsten Culver 
Neuroscience nursing | Joanna Pierazzo
Patient-centered care | Karen Moncrieff 
Patient transfer and discharge planning | Ola Lunyk-Child 
Pathophysiology / sciences as related to clinical issues | Ruth Hannon 
Recovery/ coping in chronic illness | Janet Landeen 
Surgical nursing | Lynn Martin
Urinary and fecal incontinence | Jennifer Skelly