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McGill University Ingram School of Nursing Annual Research ReportISoN2017

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04 Message from the Associate Director of Research

05 Our Research Faculty

06 Research in Numbers

07 Canada Research Chair: Sylvie Lambert

08 Get to Know our New Faculty Appointments

10 Awards & Distinctions

12 Research Funding Awarded 2017

15 Our 2017 Publications

20 Some Highlights from the Past Year

24 The Next Generation of Nurse Researchers

Table of Contents

Contributors Haley Abugov Renee Atallah Thalia Aubé Christina Kozakiewicz Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay

Design Lisa Kisiel Communications and External Relations Elona Lagendyk

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It is with great pride that we present our inaugural edition of the Ingram School of Nursing Annual Research Report, which provides us the opportunity to showcase the exciting developments and achievements of our faculty researchers and students over the past year.

McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing is home to 15 faculty researchers whose work

captures the far-ranging scope of both the art and science of nursing; from health promotion and improving quality of life, to eradicating health disparities and moving evidence-based data forward in practice.

This year was marked by outstanding research outputs including many publications in high-ranked journals, and prestigious distinctions and grants awarded to some of our professors. Among our faculty members, two hold Senior FRQS (Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé) career awards, one holds a FRQS Junior II career award, one holds a Canada Research Chair-Tier 2, and one holds the McGill Chair in Psychosocial Oncology.

This year we welcomed two new faculty members to our research team, who show great promise. With that, it is with great pleasure that I introduce our research professors and students, and share this year’s progress in our mission to continue influencing nursing practice in Canada.

Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay RN, PhD Associate Professor

Message from the Associate Director of Research

Antonia ArnaertRN, PhD Associate Professor Telehealth technologies and whole person care [email protected]

Laurie GottliebRN, PhDProfessorDevelopment of Strengths-Based Nursing as an approach to practice, leadership/management and education [email protected]

John PringleRN, PhDAssistant ProfessorGlobal health, humanitarian ethics, research [email protected]

Franco CarnevaleRN, PhDProfessor Pediatrics ethics, the experience of critically ill children and their families, childhood disability, qualitative [email protected]

Sylvie LambertRN, PhDAssistant ProfessorImpact of cancer on patients and their family caregivers, psycho-metric analysis using Rasch analysis, mixed research metho-dology (quantitative and qualitative) [email protected]

Margaret PurdenRN, PhDAssociate ProfessorInterprofessional education, interprofessional practice, cardiovascular care, qualitative methodology, quantitative [email protected]

Nancy FeeleyRN, PhD Associate Professor Neonatal intensive care, parent-infant interaction, perinatal women’s mental health [email protected]

Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay RN, PhDAssociate Professor, Associate Director, ResearchHealth promotion, administration/management of nursing services, knowledge translation, action research, health care leadership/health care [email protected]

Sonia SemenicRN, PhDAssociate ProfessorPhD Program DirectorBreastfeeding, implementation of evidence informed practice in perinatal health, cultural diversities in perinatal health [email protected]

Anita J. GagnonRN, MPH, PhDAssociate Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Director, Ingram School of Nursing Migration, women’s health, maternal-child health, public health [email protected]

Carmen G. LoiselleRN, PhDProfessor Psychosocial oncology and cancer care, young and middle-aged adults, mixed methodology, transitions in care, global health [email protected]

Argerie TsimicalisRN, PhDAssistant ProfessorCancer care/oncology, infants/children, vulnerable/at risk populations, transitions in care, informatics/technologies in health [email protected]

Celine GelinasRN, PhD Associate ProfessorCritical care nursing, pain assessment and measurement, pain management, qualitative methodology, palliative care [email protected]

Christine MaheuRN, PhDAssociate ProfessorPsychosocial oncology and cancer care, survivorship care, cancer and work, fear of cancer recurrence, clinical trials and intervention [email protected]

Andrea Van HulstRN, PhDAssistant ProfessorChildhood obesity, environments in relation to obesity and associated health behaviours, risk factors among youth with type-1 [email protected]

Our Research Faculty

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Research in Numbers

#32 University in the World/

959 Total (QS Ranking, 2017)

#37 Nursing Faculty in the World/ 101 Total (QS Ranking, 2017)

14 Doctoral & Post-Doctoral

Students (12 PhD & 2 Post-Doc)

$647,572as Principal

Investigators

$22,490,268 Total

Research Grant Funding Awarded

$370,000 as Co-Principal Investigators

$21,472,696 as Co-Investigators

42 Publications in High-

Impact Journals

73 Journal Article

Publications

3 Book Chapters

7 Systematic Reviews

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Nursing Faculty in Canada/10 Total (QS Ranking, 2017)

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$424,772of total funding for

PhD students for the 2016-2017academic year


Canada Research Chair

Dr. Sylvie Lambert, Assistant Professor, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill Faculty of Medicine, is one of eleven women recently awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC) at the University. Dr. Lambert was awarded a Tier 2 CRC in Sustainable Self-Management Support for Patients with Cancer and Their Family Caregivers in March of 2017. Tier 2 Chairs are awarded to exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field, and are valued at $100,000 annually for five years with one opportunity for renewal. The CRC program was created to enable Canadian universities to attract and retain established and emerging world-class researchers.

Prior to becoming a researcher, Dr. Lambert was an ICU nurse, where she met patients and families trying to cope with severe illnesses. “I wanted to know what information patients and families needed, where they find this information and how they are applying this knowledge to living as healthily as possible despite a chronic illness,” says Dr. Lambert. “As a clinician, I quickly realized how powerful and empowering knowledge is for patients and their families, but by the same token, misinformation and lack of knowledge can be just as powerful, in a negative way.”

Not surprisingly, the basis of Dr. Lambert’s Research Chair is focusing on the development and evaluation of clinical interventions that provide the best available information to meet the needs of patients and their families, in a compassionate and useful way. “Communicating information and making sure individuals learn the skills they need to live as well as possible at a time when stress and other emotions are high is a challenge, one that our team has taken on!” says Dr. Lambert.

The goal of Dr. Lambert’s research is to ultimately equip clinicians with a set of interventions to help patients and their families manage the emotional, social and physical challenges of living with a chronic disease. “We want clinicians to have the resources and tools to be able to support patients when they need it the most,” says

Dr. Lambert. “We are also factoring in the current climate of the health care system, so

as to not create additional costs, which means, for example, using online platforms, or organizing the interventions in a way that the most intensive are reserved for those who need them the most.”

Dr. Lambert’s team has received two catalyst grants for innovative clinical trials from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). “We’re looking forward to witnessing the practical implications of this research,” says Dr. Lambert. “This Research Chair is the recognition and the validation of the scientific accuracy and value of our work by other Canadian researchers within and outside this field.”

Major funding sources for Sustainable Self-Management Support for Patients with Cancer and Their Family Caregivers include Prostate Cancer Canada, Réseau de recherche en interventions en sciences infirmières du Québec, Le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé and CIHR. Collaborators are pan-Canadian: Princess Margaret Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, St. Mary’s Hospital Center, CancerCare Manitoba, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, and Vancouver Prostate Centre.

Dr. Lambert came to McGill from Australia where she was a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the Translational Cancer Research Unit, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, University of New South Wales.

By Christina Kozakiewicz

Empowering patients and their families

when severe illness strikes: Dr. Sylvie Lambert


Andraea Van Hulst: Targeting Childhood Obesity for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Heart disease—also known as cardiovascular disease—is an umbrella term for a group of conditions that affect the structure and functions of the heart. While some forms of heart disease are congenital (present at birth), the vast majority develop with age. According to Health Canada, cardiovascular disease affects approximately 2.4 million Canadian adults, and is the second leading cause of death in the country.

While children and teens are not usually diagnosed with clinical heart disease, they may present risk

factors for the illness. These include high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels, diabetes and

being overweight. Right now, an estimated 27% of Canadian children and teens are overweight, and of

them, 13% are considered obese, making excess weight and obesity the most common pediatric risk factors for

heart disease. Moreover, studies show that obese children and teens are more likely to develop compounded risk factors,

and to remain obese as adults, leaving them more at risk for developing heart disease into adulthood.

The good news: many forms of heart disease can be prevented by living an active, healthy lifestyle, and McGill Nursing professor and researcher Andraea Van Hulst would argue that targeting childhood obesity is one of the best ways to prevent

the development of this illness.

Professor Van Hulst began her career as an ER nurse in a hospital with many patients seeking care for conditions related to heart

disease. “While I loved the challenges and the pace of the ER, I soon realized I was not focusing my efforts where they were most needed,” says

Van Hulst. “At the end of a shift, I felt good about contributing to saving the life of a patient who suffered a heart attack or stroke, but I felt that I needed to stop people from falling into the river instead of pulling them out of the water as they were drowning,” she says.

Van Hulst went from the ER to pursue graduate studies in public health, to now, where her program of research includes identifying the social and environmental factors and conditions that can lead to poor lifestyle behaviours and obesity in childhood. “Eating is part of everyday life, and how a child eats depends largely on how their family and friends eat, and on their access to different types of food,” says Van Hulst.

What’s more, according to Van Hulst, it’s not just what we eat, it’s where we eat.

“Where we live and work affects us, and children are no different,” says Van Hulst. “Environments in which children live, learn and play influence their health. Living in low-income neighbourhoods often means less access to health promoting opportunities such as proximity to stores selling healthy foods, or parks that are safe and appealing to children for play,” she says. “We hope our research can identify targets for the prevention of obesity both at the individual and at the population levels.”

Having joined the Ingram School of Nursing’s faculty for the 2017-2018 academic year, Van Hulst is putting together a team and developing a program of research, which will include focusing on preventing risk factors for heart disease in children and teens, and incorporating nursing expertise into the development of health-promotion and obesity-management strategies. “Family-based approaches are recommended for treating childhood obesity, and nurses have an expertise and a longstanding background in using whole-family approaches in their practice,” says Van Hulst. “One of my goals is to develop a nurse-led multidisciplinary approach to obesity prevention and treatment.

Get to Know our New Faculty Appointments

By Christina Kozakiewicz


John Pringle: Researching Bioethics, Humanitarian Health Care and Global Health

John Pringle doesn’t have a definitive answer on why he chose to become a nurse. But he can tell you, with 100% certainty, is that it was the best decision he ever made. Pringle is an Assistant Professor at the Ingram School of Nursing, joining the faculty in August of 2017. His interest in pursuing a career in nursing first surfaced during his backpacking days in Europe, after finishing high school. At a time fraught with decisions to be made about his future, Pringle knew he wanted a career that would allow for travelling, but also contribute to communities in meaningful ways. After returning from his travels overseas, he completed a BScN at McMaster University and became an RN, working in an advanced scope of practice in First Nations communities in northern Manitoba. He then turned to the reputable Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international, humanitarian, medical, non-governmental organization. MSF is best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries experiencing endemic or epidemic diseases.

During his time with MSF, Pringle witnessed the sheer magnitude of nurses’ contribution to health care delivery globally. “Most healthcare in the world is provided by nurses,” he says. “This notion compelled me in my becoming a nurse and working for MSF.” During his work in refugee camps in Eritrea in 2001 during the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict, Pringle saw the devastation caused by outbreak-prone diseases. He then went on to complete a Masters degree (MSc) in Community Health & Epidemiology from Queen’s University, and then, after a few more missions with MSF, he obtained a PhD in Public Health and Bioethics from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

Just months after completing his PhD, Pringle went with MSF to assist with the West Africa Ebola crisis. At the height of the outbreak, Pringle was in Sierra Leone, helping to set up a new Ebola treatment centre, triaging patients as they arrived for treatment, and assisting with a mass administration of antimalarial medications across the greater Freetown area. Pringle recalls feeling overwhelmed during

his time there, as he saw MSF carrying the brunt of the response. “It was unfathomable to me, that the start of the 21st century, the response to the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, the first to spread to major urban centers and across international borders, was left to a humanitarian organization like MSF,” he says. “Globalization is raising ethically troubling issues as neoliberal economic policies strip away protections for public health and the environment whilst abandoning the needs of the poor.” Looking for ways to critically understand these types of ethical dilemmas, Pringle joined the Humanitarian Health Ethics (HHE) Research Group. “I am fortunate to be part of the core group in Canada,” he says. “The HHE Research Group is committed to these tough questions and to proposing solutions.”

As part of an HHE research study, Pringle returned to West Africa in the summer of 2017 to interview Ebola survivors about their experiences as research participants. The study seeks to identify the barriers and facilitators of applying ethical standards in clinical research during the Ebola outbreak, in order to inform future research during public health emergencies. (HHE, 2018). Over 100 stakeholders from the worst affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were recruited for the study, the findings of which Pringle is working with his colleagues to publish in the coming year.

Pringle is now working with MSF to examine the role of telemedicine in humanitarian projects. He is currently evaluating a telemedicine platform that MSF set up in a remote community hospital supported by MSF in Niger that is designed to assist local clinicians in caring for complex pediatric patients. In addition to his research, Pringle has been Vice Chair of the MSF Ethics Review Board since September 2015. The MSF Ethics Review Board is an independent board comprised of a multidisciplinary group of experts in research methodology, global health and research ethics, tasked with reviewing and approving MSF research. Pringle intends to continue supporting MSF as Assistant Professor in the Ingram School of Nursing.

By Christina Kozakiewicz & Thalia Aubé


Awards & Distinctions

1 Professor Céline Gélinas was recipient of a Senior Research Scholar Salary award, from the

Fonds de la recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQ-S), for the 2017 to 2021 period. The FRQS award is a unique opportunity for Professor Céline Gélinas to have the time to advance her research and knowledge in her field of expertise. The award was issued for the project entitled; Innovation dans l’évaluation et la gestion de la douleur dans les unités de soins intensifs adultes, with a valued total of $347,735. The goal of this research program is to develop innovative measures of pain assessment in critically ill adults and to implement best practice guidelines to improve pain management in the adult intensive care unit.

2Professor Christine Maheu was recipient of a Junior II Research Scholar Salary award,

from the FRQS, for the 2016-2019 period. The award was issued for the project; Enhancing survivorship care services with evidence-base practices and knowledge translation activities, with a valued total of $259,266. When asked about this award, Christine Maheu replied “I am forever grateful for receiving this Junior II career award that has allowed me to invest additional time in expanding a program of research that seeks to improve and facilitate the ‘living with and beyond’ a cancer diagnosis”. Key features have been in the development of two Canadian firsts: The first Canadian evidenced-based intervention for the management of fear of cancer recurrence (Maheu, C., Lebel, S., Courbasson, C., Lefebvre, M., Singh, M., Bernstein, L. J., . . . Sidani, S. (2016). Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of the fear of recurrence therapy (FORT) intervention for women with breast or gynecological cancer. BMC Cancer, 16(1), 291) and the first Canadian evidenced-based website of Cancer and Work (www.cancerandwork.ca) with over 500 pages of resources and over 40 Canadian experts on the topic that contributed to its work.

3Professor Nancy Feeley was recipient of a Senior Research Scholar Salary award from the

FRQS, for the 2014-2018 period. This award was for the project; Santé psychologique et habiletés parentales pendant la période périnatale, valued at $287,500. This program of research is concerned with parent psychological health and parenting in the perinatal period primarily in parents at-risk for the development of psychological distress due to their childbirth experience. These topics are explored in both mothers and fathers, in particular those who have a newborn born premature and hospitalized in Neonatal Intensive Care. This research describes parent psychological health, identifies factors associated with psychological health, and examines how psychological health affects parenting behaviour. An understanding of factors associated with psychological health will provide knowledge to guide the development of evidence-based nursing care to optimize the parenting environment of young children and thus ultimately enhance child health and development.


4In 2017, Professor Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay, and her colleagues were the winners

of the academic award for the Project Management Institution (PMI) Case Competition. Since 1974, the PMI awards have honored organizations and individuals whose passion, talent and expertise have made outstanding contributions to the project management profession. Research & academic awards, in particular, honor a project manage-ment research or educator to recognize individuals, groups and published works that significantly advance program management. This award was for the Monique Aubry et al, case from the CIHR grant, Lavoie-Tremblay et al, valued at $5000.

5In May 2017, Professor Carmen Loiselle was awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation.

This certificate was in recognition of Dr. Loiselle’s service to Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) and the cancer community. Dr. Loiselle has been involved in CPAC activities for over ten years, including membership on steering committees to improve cancer care, research advisory committees, and as an expert panelist at venues across Canada. Dr. Loiselle has also received CPAC grant funding to test a virtual navigation system to support patients (PI: Loiselle; $160,880). In 2011, Dr Loiselle was appointed inaugural Christine and Herschel Victor/Hope & Cope Chair in Psychosocial Oncology – the first of its kind in Quebec, the third in Canada and less than six worldwide. Following a 5-year report on her accomplishments throughout the inaugural period of the Chair, a committee was formed to review her dossier and Dr. Loiselle received unanimous approval for the 5-year renewal (in total 2011-2021). Dr. Loiselle’s program of research focuses on the patient experience with cancer and care as well as the development and testing of innovative web-based approaches that can readily provide support to patients throughout the cancer trajectory: www.loisellelab.ca

6In March 2017, Professor Andraea Van Hulst, was one of two researchers selected

to represent the Quebec Research Network in Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and Obesity at the 2017 Danish Diabetes Academy Winter School. This Winter School brings together international post-doctoral and doctoral trainees as well as world renowned researchers in diabetes for 5 days of discussion on a wide range of topics covering the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Together with 3 other team members, Professor Van Hulst was awarded the ‘Most promising team’ in a Diabetes Challenge aimed at proposing a strategy for improved prevention and management of diabetes using precision medicine.


INVESTIGATORS SPONSOR PROGRAM TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT AWARDED DURATION

Grants as Principal InvestigatorArnaert, A., Ponzoni, N., Soubeiga, D., Sia, S., Tchouaket, E., Kargougou, R.L J.C., Prosper, D.A., Georges, G., Rouamba, G., & Yentema, O.

Grand Challenges Canada

Stars in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH)

STREAM: Strengthening the relationship between primary care and community health workers using technology-enabled home visits for preventative screening and monitoring of pregnant women living in the rural eastern region of Burkina Faso.

$100,000 2017-2018

Carnevale, F. A. Fondation du Dr Julien

Project Grant Évaluation du projet FER (Familles–Enfants–Réseau): Volet enfants.

$37,080 2017-2020

Carnevale, F. A., Tsimicalis, A. Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas & Henry Luce Foundation

Project Grant Using practice-based research to recognize the moral experience and agency in the everyday lives of children.

$25,000 2017-2018

Feeley, N. & Heon, M., Cinquino, C., Semenic, S., Gravel, S., Larone-Juneau, A., Somera, J., Savaria, M., & Francoeur, M.

Jewish General Hospital (JGH)

Research and Development Fund, Neonatology Department

Promouvoir et soutenir l’expression de lait maternel chez les femmes à risque d’un sevrage précoce de l’allaitement.

$5000 2017-2018

Gelinas, C., & Emed, Jessica JGH JGH Collaborative OPTimize Opioid MONITORING for adults in acute care hospital settings (OPT-O-Monitoring project).

$130,525 2017-2019

Lambert, S. D. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Research Portion of Canada Research Chair

Self-care and illness self-management support interventions.

$125,000 2017-2022

Lambert, S. D., Katz, A., Ménard, G., McCusker, J., Howell, D., Moodie, E., Laizner, A. M., Allard, M., Esplen, M. J., Vickers, M., Holwell, M., Harris, C., Maheu, C., Duncan, L., Courbasson, C., & Rochefort, C.

CIHR Catalyst Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trials.

An adaptive dyadic self-directed coping and self-management skills training intervention for caregivers of individuals with cancer: A pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) design.

$99,969 2017-2018

Lambert, S. D., Grover, S., Geneviève, M., McCusker, J., Moodie, E., Harper, C., Da Costa, D., Laizner, A. M., Vallis, M., Schuster, T., & Pilote, L.

CIHR Catalyst Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trials

Adaptive internet-based stress management among adults with a cardiovascular disease: A pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) design.

$99,998 2017-2018

Lambert, S. D., McCusker, J., Yaffe, M., Law, S., Antonacci, R., Paraskevopoulos, H., Amir, E., Creager, J., Conn, D.

Drummond Foundation

Research Grant Older adults with a chronic physical condition and comorbid depression and their family caregivers: Partners in the co-design of a dyadic self-care depression intervention.

$25,000 2017-2018

Research Funding Awarded 2017 Bold ISoN Faculty ResearcherItalics ISoN Teaching Faculty Member


INVESTIGATORS SPONSOR PROGRAM TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT AWARDED DURATION

Grants as Co-Principal InvestigatorFeeley, N. & Heon, M., Cinquino, C, Semenic, S., Gravel, S., Larone Juneau, A., Somera, J., Savaria, M., & Francoeur, M.

Gouvernement du Québec

Direction Régionale de santé publique

(DRSP)

Promouvoir et soutenir l’expression de lait maternel chez les femmes à risque d’un sevrage précoce de l’allaitement.

$20,000 2017-2018

Aita, M. & Semenic, S., Feeley, N., Haiek, L., Héon, M., Lechasseur, K., Roch, G., & Talbot, L.

OIIQ (L’Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec)

Programme de subvention clinique-Pour mieux soigner

Favoriser le développement des enfants prématurés et l’implication des parents par l’optimisation des meilleures prattiques infirmières.

$250,000 2017-2019

Goulding, K., Tsimicalis, A., Freeman, C., Turcotte, R., Mlynarek, A.

McGill University Rossy Network Cancer Quality and Innovation Program

Defining the patient experience in extremity and retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma through sequential exploratory mixed methods approach: The Sarcoma-Specific Quality of Life (SARQOL) study.

$100,000 2017-2018

Grants as Co-InvestigatorTchouaket, E., Sia, S., Yentema, O., Arnaert, A., & Ponzoni, N.

Universities

Canada

Queen Elizabeth Scholarships/

Boursiers de la Reine Elizabeth

Partenariat pour l’amélioration de la santé maternelle et infantile en Afrique de l’Ouest à l’aide de la santé numérique.

$1,004,737 2017-2020

Demontigny, F. Co-I’s: Bell, l., Dacosta, D., Devault, A., Feeley, N., Ndengeyingoma, A., Pierce, T., Roch, G., Verdon, C., Cyr, C., Gervais, C., Kettani, M, Lemelin, L. Tardif-Grenier, K., Dubeau, D., Lacharitie, C., Maretl, M., Tremblay, G., Cote, I. Reeves, N., Benzies, K., Dennis, C., Fletcher, R., Howlett, A., Letourneau, N., Mellier, D., Nascimento, L., Ramchandani, P., & Russell, B


FQRSC (Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture)

Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la paternité, la famille, et la société.

$415,492 2017-2021

Aita, M. & De Clifford-Faugère, G., Feeley, N., & Colson, S.

Réseau de Recherche en Interventions en Sciences Infirmières du Québec

(RRISIQ)

Subvention pour projet de recherche impliquant une collaboration internationale.

Pratiques infirmières liées au soins de développement des nouveau-nés prématurés: Comparaison entre des unités néonatales québécoises et françaises.

$10,000 2017-2019

Aita, M., Stremler, R., Feeley, N., Lavallée, A. & De Clifford Faugère.

RRISIQ Research Grant Effectiveness of interventions during NICU hospitalization on the short-term neurodevelopment of preterm infants. A systematic review protocol.

$15,027 2017-2019

Urquia, ML., Afifi, TO., Blanchard, JF., Brownell, MD., Brownridge, DA., Chartier, MJ., Fransoo, RR., Gagnon, AJ., Guttman, A., Jiang, D., Lorway, RR., Moineddin, R., Pulver, A., Ray, JG., Sibley, KM., Thiessen, KR., Vigod, SN., Wanigaratne, S., Wilkinson, LA.

CIHR Foundation Grant Addressing gender-based health inequities among immigrants to Canada.

$786,800 2017-2022


Pomey MP., de Guise M., Desforges M., Boivin A., Bélanger L., Charpentier D., Denis JL., Dorval M., Fernandez N., Fortin I., Framarin A., Gagliardi A., Ganache I., Ghadiri DP., Lahaie V., Lavoie-Tremblay M., Rosberger Z., Régis C., Thoer C., Vigneault K., et al.

CIHR Research Grant Le patient accompagnateur une ressource organisationnelle comme levier pour une expérience patient amélioré en oncologie (PAROLE-Onco).

$1,000,000 2017-2021

Lafranchise, N., Kuyken K, Poulin, MH., Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Grosjean S., Courcy, F., Bonneville, Paquet M.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Research Grant Démarche de recherche-action collaborative visant à approfondir l’optimisation et les impacts des groupes de codéveloppement professionnel, dans une perspective transversale des secteurs.

$200,000 2017-2020

Gagnon, P., Cohen, R., Savard, J., Gauthier, L., Dumont, S., Loiselle, C.G. [and 200 others].


FQRSC Réseau québécois de recherche en soins palliatifs et de fin de vie.

$1,000,000 2017-2021

Maheu, C., & Parkinson, M. Bachem (Science research company)

Donation Fund Cancer and Work Website. $1000 2017

Maheu, C., & Parkinson, M. Creek River Donation Fund Cancer and Work Website. $1000 2017

Lavoie, P., Purden, M., Clausen, C., Frunchak, V., & Emed, J.

McGill University McGill Nursing Collaborative

Nursing handoff: Nurses’ perception of handoff quality and judgment regarding the patient’s risk of deterioration.

$20,000 2017-2018

Dennis, C-L., Birken, C., Juni, P., Abbass-Dick, J., Atkinson, S., Barrett J., Bell R., Berard A., Berger H., Brown H., Chambers C., Clinton J., Constantin E., Da Costa D., Feller., Guttmann A., Hutchinson H., Isaranuwatchai w., Janus m., Joseph K. S., Kimmins S., Letourneau N., Li P., Maguire J., Manson H., McGrath P., Murphy K., Nuyt A. M., O’Connor D., Parekh R., Paterson A., Parkin P., Puts M., Ray J., Roumeliotis P., Santos R., Scherer S., Sellen D., Semenic S., Shah P., Smith G., Stremler R., Szatmari P., T elner D., Thorpe K., Tremblay M., Vigod S., & Walker M.

CIHR Team Grant – Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)

Trajectories of healthy life using public health and primary care interventions in Canada: The TROPHIC Trial.

$17,018,640 2017-2027


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6. Bianchi, M, Bagnasco. A, Aleo, G, Catania, G, Zanini,M.P., Timmins, F. Carnevale, F.A., & Sasso, L. (2017). Preparing healthcare students who participate in interprofessional education for interprofessional collaboration: A constructivist grounded theory study protocol. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19, 1-3.

7. Chan, L., Macdonald, M.E., Carnevale, F.A., Steele, R.J., & Shrier, I. (2017). Reconciling disparate data to determine the right answer: A grounded theory of meta analysts’ reasoning in meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods, 9(1), 25-40.

8. Chan, L.S., Macdonald, M.E., Carnevale, F.A., & Cohen, S.R. (2017). ‘I’m only dealing with the acute issues’: How medical ward ‘busyness’ constrains care of the dying. Health.

9. Valcarenghi, D., Bagnasco, A., Aleo, G., Catania, G., Zanini, M., Cavaliere, B., Carnevale, F.A., & Sasso, L. (2017). Exploring the interaction between nursing decision making and patient outcomes in 2 European cancer centers: A qualitative study. Cancer Nursing.

10. Bastos, R.A., Lamb, F.A., Quintana, A.M., Beck, C.L.C., & Carnevale, F.A. (2017). Vivências dos enfermeiros frente ao processo de morrer: uma metassíntese qualitativa [The experiences of nurses in the dying process: a qualitative meta-synthesis]. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental, 17, 58-64.

11. King, L., Robins, S., Chen, G., Yerko, V., Zhou, Y., Nagy, C., Feeley, N., Gold, I., Hayton, B., Turecki, G., & Zelkowitz, P. (2017). Perinatal depression and DNA methylation of oxytocin-related genes: A study of mothers and their children. Hormones and Behavior, 96, 84-94.

12. Feeley, N., Hayton, B., Gold, I., & Zelkowitz, P. (2017). A comparative prospective cohort study of women following childbirth: Mothers of low birthweight infants at risk for elevated PTSD symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 101, 24-30.

13. Aita, M., Stremler, R., Feeley, N., Lavallee, A., & De Clifford Faugere, G. (2017). Effectiveness of interventions during NICU hospitalization on the neurodevelopment of preterm infants: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 6, 1.

14. Treherne, S*., Feeley, N., Charbonneau, L & Axelin, A. (2017). Parents’ perspectives of closeness to and separation with their preterm infants in the NICU. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 46(5), 737-747.

15. MacKinnon, A., Yang, L., Feeley, N., Gold, I., Hayton, B., & Zelkowitz, P. (2017). Birth setting, labour experience, and postpartum psychological distress. Midwifery, 50, 110-116.

16. Niela-Vilén, H., Feeley, N., & Axelin, A. (2017). Hospital routines promote parent-infant closeness and cause separation in the birthing unit in the first two hours after birth – a pilot study. Birth, 44, 167-172.

January 1 to December 31, 2017Our 2017 Publications

Nursing Student ISoN, McGill UniversityBold ISoN Faculty ResearcherItalics ISoN Teaching Faculty Member

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17. MacKinnon, A., Naguib, M., Barr, H., Levinsson, A., Robins, S., Feeley, N., Hayton, B., Zelkowitz, P., & Gold, I. (2017). Delusional ideation during the perinatal period in a community sample. Schizophrenia Research, 179, 17-22.

18. Dennis, C. L., Merry, L., & Gagnon, A. J. (2017). Postpartum depression risk factors among recent refugee, asylum-seeking, non-refugee immigrant, and Canadian-born women: results from a prospective cohort study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52(4), 411-422.

19. Pelaez S, Hendricks KN, Merry L, Gagnon A.J. Challenges newly-arrived migrant women in Montreal face when needing maternity care: Health care professionals’ perspectives. Globalization and Health, 13(1), 1-9.

20. Daoust, R., Paquet, J., Moore, L., Gosselin, S., Gélinas, C., Rouleau, D. M., Bérubé, M* & Morris, J. (2017). Incidence and risk factors of long-term opioid use in elderly trauma patients. Annals of Surgery.

21. Gélinas, C., *Boitor, M., Ranger, M., Johnston, C. C., De Marchie, M., Cervero, F., & Choinière, M. (2017). Is near infrared spectroscopy valid for the detection of procedural pain in postoperative cardiac surgery intensive care unit adults? Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 35(6), 391-399.

22. Wang, P. P., Huang, E., Feng, X., Bray, C. A., Perreault, M., Rico, P., Bellemare, P., Murgoi, P., Gélinas, C., Jayaraman, D., Lecavalier, A., Frenette, A. J., & Williamson, D. (2017). Opioid-associated iatrogenic withdrawal in critically ill adult patients: a multicenter prospective observational study. Annals of Intensive Care, 7,1.

23. Bérubé, M*., Gélinas, C., Martorella, G., Côté, J., Feeley, N., Laflamme, G. Y., Rouleau, D., & Choinière, M. (2017). A hybrid web-based and in-person self-management intervention to prevent acute to chronic pain transition post major lower extremity trauma (iPACT-E-Trauma): study protocol for a pilot randomized control trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(6).

24. Bérubé, M*., Gélinas, C., Choinière, M., Feeley, N., Martorella, G. Parent, S., & Streiner, D. (2017) The effect of psychological interventions on the prevention of pain in adults: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 190.

25. Boitor, M*., Gélinas, C., Richard-Lalonde, M*., & Thombs, B. (2017). The effect of massage on acute postoperative pain in critically and acutely ill adults post-thoracic surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Heart & Lung, 46(5), 339-346.

26. Vanderbyl, B*., & Gélinas, C. (2017). Family perspectives of traumatically brain injured patient pain behaviors in the intensive care unit. Pain Management Nursing, 18(4), 202-213.

27. Choi, J.Y., Campbell, M. L., Gélinas, C., Happ, M. B., Tate, J., & Chlan. L. (2017). Symptom assessment in non-vocal or cognitively impaired ICU patients: Implications for practice and future research. Heart & Lung, 46(4), 239-245.

28. Chenier, C*., Raîche, G., Talbot, N*., Carignan, B*., & Gélinas, C. (2017). Rash analysis of a behavioral checklist for the assessment of pain in critically ill adults. Journal of Applied Measurement, 18(1), 28-42.

29. Gélinas, C., Puntillo, K. A., Levin, P., & Azoulay, E. (2017). The Behavior Pain Assessment Tool for critically ill adults: A validation study in 28 countries. Pain, 158(5), 811-821.

30. Puntillo, K., Gélinas, C., & Chanques, G. (2017). Next steps in ICU pain research. Intensive Care Medicine, 43(9), 1386-1388.

31. Gottlieb, L.N. & Gottlieb, B. (2017). Strengths-Based Nursing: A process for implementing a philosophy into practice. Journal of Family Nursing, 23, 319-340.

32. Lambert, S. D., Bowe, S., Livingston, P. M., Cook, S., Heckel, L., Kowal, P., & Orellana, L. (2017). The impact of informal caregiving on older adults’ physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional, secondary analysis based on the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). BMJ Open, 7(11).

33. Lambert, S. D., Beatty, L., McElduff, P., Levesque, J., Lawson, C., Jacobsen, P., Turner, J., & Girgis, A. (2017). A systematic review and meta-analysis of written self-administered psychosocial interventions among adults with a physical illness. Patient Education and Counseling, 100, 2200-2217.

34. Girgis, A. & Lambert, S.D (2017). Cost of informal caregiving in cancer care. Cancer Forum, 41(2), 16-22.

35. McCusker, J., Yaffe, M., Sussman, T., Cole, M., Sewitch, M., Strumpf, E., Freeman, E., Lambert, S.D, de Raad, M. (2017). La gestion de la dépression chez les aînés et leurs aidants naturels : résultats d’un programme de recherche au Québec. Santé mentale au Québec, XLII (1), 273-288.

36. Lambert, S.D, Girgis, A., Descallar, J., Jones, B., & Levesque, J. (2017). Trajectories of mental and physical functioning among spouse caregivers of cancer survivors over the first five years following the diagnosis. Patient Education and Counselling, 100(6),1213-1221.


37. Lambert, S. D. & Girgis, A. (2017). Unmet supportive care needs among informal caregivers of patients with cancer: Opportunities and challenges in informing the development of interventions. Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 4(2), 136-139.

38. Karapetis, C. S., Guccione, L., Tattersall, MHN., Gooden, H., Vajdic C. M., Lambert, S. D., Robotin, M., Mileshkin, L., Schofield, P. (2017). Perceptions of cancer of unknown primary site – A National survey of Australian medical oncologists. Internal Medicine Journal, 47(4).

39. Gaskin, C. J., Lambert, S.D, Bowe, S., Orellana, L. (2017) Why sample selection matters in exploratory factor analysis: implications for the 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17(1), 40.

40. McCusker J, Cole MG, Lambert S.D, Yaffe M, Ciampi A, Belzile E. (2017). Baseline psychological treatment reduces the effect of coaching in a randomized trial of a depression self-care intervention. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 62(1), 67-72.

41. Beatty, L., Kemp, E., Binnion, C., Turner, J., Milne, D., Butow, P., Lambert, S.D, Yates, P., Yip, D., & Koczwara, B (2017). Uptake and adherence to an online intervention for cancer-related distress: older age is not a barrier to adherence but may be a barrier to uptake. Supportive Care in Cancer, 25, 1905-1914.

42. Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Aubry, M., Cyr, G., Richer, M.-C., Fortin-Verreault, J.-F., Fortin, C., & Marchionni, C. (2017). Innovation in health service management: Adoption of project management offices to support major health care transformation. Journal of Nursing Management, 25(8), 657-665.

43. Ardy-Dubois C., D’Amour D., Brault I., Dallaire C., Dery J., Duhoux A., Lavoie-Tremblay M., Mathieu L., Karemere H., Zufferey A. (2017). Which priority indicators to use to evaluate nursing care performance? Journal of Advanced Nursing. 73(12), 3154–3167

44. Duhoux, A., Charron, M., Alderson, M., Lavoie-Tremblay, M. Menear, M. (2017). Interventions to promote or improve the mental health of primary care nurses: a systematic review. Journal of Nursing Management, 25, 597–607.

45. *Bernard, L., Bernard, A., Biron, A., & Lavoie-Tremblay, M. (2017). Exploring Canadians’ and Europeans’ health care professionals’ perception of biological risks, patient safety, and professionals’ safety practices. The Health Care Manager, 36(2), 129-139.

46. *Clausen, C., Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Purden, M., Lamothe, L., Ezer, H., & McVey, L. (2017). Intentional partnering: a grounded theory study on developing effective partnerships among nurse and physician managers as they co-lead in an evolving healthcare system. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(9), 2156-2166.

47. *Doronina O., *Jones, D., *Martello, M., Biron, A., & Lavoie-Tremblay, M. (2017). A systematic review on the effectiveness of interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance of nurses in the hospital setting. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 49(2), 143-152.

48. Lavoie-Tremblay, M., O’Connor, P., Biron, A., Lavigne, G. L., Fréchette, J., & Briand, A. (2017). The effects of the transforming care at the bedside program on perceived team effectiveness and patient outcomes. The Health Care Manager, 36(1), 10-20.

49. Henry, M., Frenkiel, S., Chartier, G., Payne, R., MacDonald, C., Black, M., Mlynarek, A., Zeitouni, A., Kost, K., Loiselle, C., Ehrler, A., Rosberger, Z., Chang, K., & Hier, M. (2017). Thyroid cancer patients receiving an interdisciplinary team-based care approach (ITCA-ThyCa) appear to display better outcomes: program evaluation results indicating a need for further integrated care and support. Psycho-Oncology, 27(3), 937-945.

50. Fitch, M., Pang, K., Ouellet, V., Loiselle, C., Alibhai, S., Chevalier, S., Drachenberg, D., Finelli, A., Lattouf, J-B., Sutcliffe, S., So, A., Tanguay, S., Saad, F., & Mes-Masson, A-M. (2017). Canadian men’s perspectives about active surveillance in prostate cancer: need for guidance and resources. BMC Urology, 17(1), 98.

51. Loiselle, C. G., & Ahmed, S. (2017). Is connected health contributing to a healthier population? Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(11).

52. Loiselle, C. G. & Santerre-Theil, A*. (2017). Parenting concerns, parental identity and functional status influence psychological concerns and medical treatment decision of patients with advanced cancer. Evidence-Based Nursing. 20(4),114.

53. Duthie, K.*, Strohschein, F. J.*, Loiselle, C. G. (2017). Living with cancer and other chronic conditions: Patients’ perceptions of their healthcare experience. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, 27(1), 43-48.

54. Maheu C., & Galica J. (2017). The fear of cancer recurrence literature continues to move forward a review article. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 12(1), 40-45.

55. Singh M., Maheu C., Brady T., & Farah R. (2017). The psychological impact of the rapid diagnostic centres in cancer screening: A systematic review. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue Canadienne de Soins Infirmiers en Oncologie, 27(4), 348-355.


56. Singh, M., Maheu, C., Brady, T., & Farah, R. (2017). Centres de diagnostic rapide du cancer et conséquences psychologiques : une analyse systématique. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue Canadienne de Soins Infirmiers en Oncologie, 27(4), 356-364.

57. Zanchetta, M. S., Maheu, C., Gebremariam, A. G., Baribeau, P., Ndiaye, N. L., Tamouro, S., Lemonde, M., ... Cloos, P. (2017). Immigrant grandmothers’ and mothers-in-law’s cancer literacy within their family context. Journal of Women & Aging, 1-17.

58. Kyriacou J., Black A., Drummond N., Power J., & Maheu C. (2017). Fear of cancer recurrence: A study of the experience of survivors of ovarian cancer. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue Canadienne de Soins Infirmiers en Oncologie, 27(3), 236-242.

59. Kyriacou, J., Black, A., Drummond, N., Power, J., & Maheu, C. (2017). Peur de la récidive: Étude de l’expérience vécue par les survivantes du cancer des ovaires. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue Canadienne de Soins Infirmiers en Oncologie, 27(3), 243-250.

60. Moran C., Tomei C., Lefebvre M., Harris C., Maheu C., & Lebel, S. (2017). An exploratory study of the worst-case scenario exercise as an exposure treatment for fear of cancer recurrence. Supportive Care in Cancer, 25(5), 1373-1375.

61. Tauber N, O’Toole MS, Zachariae R, Galica J, Humphris G, Lebel S, Maheu C, Ozakinci G, Prins J, Sharpe L, Smith AB, Thewes B, Simard S, Dinkel A. (2017). The effect of psychological intervention on fear of cancer recurrence- a systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO 2017.

62. Tansey, C., Anderson, J., Boulanger, R., Eckenwiler, L., Pringle, J., Schwarts, L., Hunt, M. (2017). Familiar ethical issues amplified: How members of research ethics committees describe ethical distinctions between disaster and non-disaster research. BMC Medical Ethics, 18,1.

63. *Kayser, J.W., Cossette, S., Côté, J., Bourbonnais, A., Purden, M., Juneau, M., Tanguay, J.F., Simard, M-J., Dupuis, J., Diodati, J., Tremblay, J-F., & Cournoyer, D. (2017). Evaluation of a web-based tailored nursing intervention (TAVIE en m@rche) aimed at increasing walking after an acute coronary syndrome: A multicenter randomized controlled trial protocol. Canadian Journal of Cardiology: Supplement 1(32), 10.

64. *Gaboury, J., *Capaday, S., Somera, J., & Purden, M. (2017). Effect of the postpartum hospital environment on the attainment of mothers’ and fathers’ goals. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 46(1), 40-50.

65. *Knox, A., *Rouleau, G., Semenic, S., Khonghkam, M., and Ciofani, L. (2017). Barriers and facilitators to birth without epidural in a tertiary obstetric referral centre: Perspectives of healthcare professionals and patients. Birth.

66. Osorio, S., Ochoa, C., Semenic, S. (2017). Preparación para el alta de la unidad neonatal: Experiencia de padres de niños prematuros. Revista en Investigación y Educacion en Enfermería, 25(1), 100-106.

67. Nghiem, T., * Louli, J., * Treherne, S., * Anderson, C.,* Tsimicalis A. Lalloo, C*., Stinson J, and Thorstad, K., (2017) Pain experiences of children and adolescents with Osteogenesis Imperfecta: An Integrative Review. Clinical Journal of Pain. 33(3), 271-280.

68. Ballard A, Le May S, Khadra C, Lachance Fiola, J., Charette, S., Charest, MC, Gagnon, H., Bailey, B., Villeneuve, E., Tsimicalis, A. (2017). Distraction kits for pain management of children undergoing painful procedures in the emergency department: a pilot study. Pain Management Nursing: Official Journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses, 18(6), 418-426.

69. Wong, C.,* Lombardo, C., * Sanzone, L., Filion, F., and Tsimicalis, A. (2017). Exploring mentees’ perceptions of an undergraduate nurse peer mentorship program. Journal of Nursing Education, 56(4), 227-230.

70. Khadra C, *Le May S, Ballard A, * Théroux J, Charette S, Villeneuve E, Parent S, Tsimicalis A, MacLaren Chorney J. (2017). Validation of the scale on satisfaction of adolescents with postoperative pain management-idiopathic scoliosis (SAP-S). Journal of Pain Research, 10, 137-143.

71. Tsimicalis, A., Le May, S., Stinson, J., Rennick, J., Vachon, M-F, Louli, J*., Bérubé, S*., Treherne, S*., Yoon, S., Nordby Bøe, T., and Ruland, C. (2017) Linguistic validation of an interactive communication tool to help French-speaking children express their cancer symptoms. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 34(2), 98-105.

72. Van Hulst A, Duquette G, Henderson M. Le diabète de type 2 chez l’enfant et l’adolescent. Perspective Infirmière, 17(5), 24-30.

73. Van Hulst A, Barnett TA, Paradis G, Roy-Gagnon MH, Gomez-Lopez L, Henderson M. (2017). Birth weight, postnatal weight gain and childhood adiposity in relation to lipid profiles and blood pressure during early adolescence. Journal of the American Heart Association, 6(8).


Book Chapters

1. Santos, R.P., Neves, E.T., Carnevale, F.A. (2017). Cuidado em enfermagem pediátrica: reflexões éticas sobre a infância [Ethical reflections on the nursing care for children]. Proenf SCA: Saude Criança e do Adolescente. Ciclo 11, Volume 3, Artmed Panamericana Editora Ltda. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

2. Feeley, N. (2017). Giving birth earlier than expected: Mothers whose newborns require neonatal intensive care. In G. Thomson, V. Schmied & C. Beck (Eds.). Psychosocial Resilience and Risk in the Perinatal Period: Implications and Guidance for Professionals. Routledge.

3. Aubry, M, Lavoie-Tremblay, M, (2017). Organizing for the management of projects: the project management office in the dynamics of organizational design. In Cambridge Handbook Organisational Project Management. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

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Some Highlights from the Past Year

Groundbreaking clinical project co-directed by McGill Nursing Professor wins highly coveted grant from Quebec Order of NursesApproximately 7 % of babies in Quebec are born premature, and many of these infants require weeks to several months of hospitalization in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to support their growth and development.

Hospitalization in the NICU is a crisis event for parents, and the costs of NICU and neonatal follow-up care are a significant burden to the health care system. Nurses play a leading role in humanizing the NICU experience and improving neonatal and parental outcomes, by implementing low-cost, “low-tech”, health-promoting interventions such as breastfeeding support, skin-to-skin contact, developmental care and family-integrated care.

The Quebec Order of Nurses Foundation (Fondation de l’Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec) awarded their prestigious $250,000 “Pour mieux soigner” grant to a project, co-directed by Sonia Semenic, Associate Professor, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill Faculty of Medicine; Marilyn Aita, Faculty of Nursing at University de Montréal; and Audrey Larone-Juneau, Nursing Consultant in the NICU at the Sainte-Justine Hospital.

The goal of the project is to create a “community of practice” between Quebec NICU nurse leaders and university-based nurse researchers, to facilitate sharing of evidence-based NICU nursing care practices, tools, resources and educational strategies. As the care of premature infants can incur life-long impacts, the ultimate objective of the project is to harmonize NICU nursing care practices across the province, and ensure the delivery of the best possible evidence-based care for premature babies and their parents.“The four nursing practices targeted in our project are low-cost, but have proven benefits for the health and later development of babies born premature, for example, promoting parent-infant skin-to skin contact, also known as ‘Kangaroo care,’” says Dr. Semenic.

“Some neonatal intensive care units have more expertise implementing kangaroo care as part of routine practice, and our project aims to identify and share this expertise across all of Quebec’s NICUs.” Managing elements within the NICU environment, such as levels of lighting, noise, and how premature infants are positioned in the incubator, are also key to helping premature infants adapt outside of the women and protecting their neuro-development.

All six Level 3 neonatal intensive care units in Quebec are participating in this project: Sainte-Justine CHU, McGill University Health Centre, Québec-Université Laval University Hospital, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre and the Jewish General Hospital.

In each of these units, nurse leaders will be connected via a web-based platform (CVP-Neon@t) so that they can discuss their practices, share evidence-based literature and resources, and pass on their knowledge to their colleagues. “What we’re ultimately hoping for is better care via creating a framework for sharing best practices,” says Dr. Semenic. “We’re working towards more parental involvement, so that parents feel more prepared and competent, and that babies are going home with better outcomes.”

“We’re working towards more parental involvement, so that parents feel more prepared and competent, and that babies are going home with better outcomes.” - Sonia Semenic

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McGill Nursing CollaborativeThe McGill Nursing Collaborative for Education and Innovation in Patient- and Family-Centred Care is a collaborative partnership between the Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN) and the nursing departments of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (Jewish General Hospital [JGH] Site).

The Collaborative was inaugurated in 2012 with a donation of six million dollars from the Newton Foundation and other donors in the community, with the goal of advancing nursing research, practice and education through the combined efforts of its members.

The Collaborative has launched more than 15 projects to strengthen professional competencies and leadership skills among ISoN students, faculty, and clinical partners, and as of May 2018, it has an official logo designed to represent each of its member organizations, along with the themes of service, care and collaboration.

Left top to right bottom:

Melanie-Lavoie Tremblay Faculty Researcher, ISoN

Annie Chevrier Faculty Lecturer, ISoN

Louise MurrayNursing Practice Consultant, MUHC and Faculty Lecturer, ISoN

Alain Biron Associate Director of Nursing, Professional Practice and Academic Affairs, MUHC

Valerie Frunchak Associate Director of Nursing, Professional Practice and Academic Affairs, CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal

Christina Clausen McGill Nursing Collaborative JGH Site lead

Meet the Collaborative Team


In December 2017 a publication by Dr. Nancy Feeley and her team was chosen as Paper of the Month by the Perinatal Mental Health Society. Their study compared posttraumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms in four groups of women following childbirth and examined change in symptoms over time, as well as the relationship between PTSD symptoms and mothers’ interactive behavior with their infant. At 5 and 8 weeks after birth, women whose infant required Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) hospitalization reported more PTSD symptoms compared to women having other childbirth experiences. Although their symptoms decreased over time, they nonetheless continued to report more symptoms than other mothers. Women with elevated PTSD symptoms were more intrusive in interactions with their infants. Studies are needed that examine fathers whose infant requires NICU hospitalization as they too may experience PTSD symptoms.

PTSD


The Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research (RRISIQ) was created with the objective to develop nursing intervention research and connect research and practice to provide quality healthcare. The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQS) funded network was first established in 2003 as a research group called the GRISIM (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en sciences infirmières de Montréal), which included researchers from McGill and the Université de Montréal. GRISIM was established with the support of the Newton Foundation (Richard Ingram).

Professor Nancy Feeley, succeeded one of the

founding co-directors of GRISIM in 2009 and has been Co-Director alongside Sylvie Cossette

from the Université de Montréal since then.

Just prior to Dr Feeley’s succession, the network had expanded to include other universities in 2008 (Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke), and was renamed GRIISIQ (Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en interventions en sciences infirmières du Québec) to reflect this. Today, the network is composed of eight universities across Quebec. Each university contributes funds dedicated to RRISIQ research activities with these contributed funds remaining at each university. These funds are used primarily to support fellowships for graduate students and pilot studies for

faculty members from that university. Currently, RRISIQ has 116 regular researcher members from all but one Quebec nursing school or faculty.

RRISIQ’s funding from FRQS was last renewed for the 2014 to 2019 period, for the amount of $400,000/year plus $330,000/year of university contributions, totaling; $730,000/year over five years for $3.65 million. The team plans to renew their application for funding in December of 2018, for the four-year period between 2019 and 2023. In 2018 the network’s international platform launched a new scientific journal, titled Science of Nursing and Health Practices, on RRISIQ’s theme of intervention research. The journal intends to publish research (80%) and knowledge transfer (20%) manuscripts in both French and English. The editor-in-chief is a RRISIQ member, Dr. Côté and the editorial committee has representation from Quebec, Canada and other countries. The first journal issue appeared mid-2018, with the journal officially launching at the

Secrétariat international des infirmières et infirmiers de l’espace francophone (SIDIIEF) international conference in France, June 2018.

This international platform also launched its first international collaboration competition in 2017 with the goal of augmenting international research. As RRISIQ promotes inter-university and inter-domain collaboration, pilot research projects that are funded must include researchers from two Quebec partner universities and a third from an international site. Awarded funds can be used to pursue research activities such as conducting a systematic review .

RRISIQ’s scientific events are accessible to the network’s members, students and non-members. Participants can attend these events on-site or by videoconferencing. For example, conferences such as “A Case Study Exploring Employment Factors Affecting General Practice Nurse Role Development” presented by Dr. Susan Crossman from the UK were held. Lastly, the network’s resources platform has established a research instrument and clinical tools database, created for consultation by members and students. There are now 72 registered users and 1716 measures and clinical tools. New measures continue to be added.

For more information, please go to: https://rrisiq.com

$3.65MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS


The Next Generation of Nurse Researchers

McGill Nursing Graduate among Up-and-Coming Researchers Honoured for Breakthrough Discoveries at 7th Annual Mitacs Awards

Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization specializing in the design and delivery of research and training programs, working with universities, companies and governments to support industrial and social innovation in Canada. On November 21, 2017 Mitacs held their 7th annual awards ceremony to recognize five up and coming researchers from across Canada, among them, Justine Behan, graduate of the Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN), McGill University.

Justine received the Mitacs Master’s Award for Outstanding Innovation for her ethnographic study aimed at improving the lives of children living with cancer in India. Her work involved collecting data at three different study sites in New Delhi, with the goal of acquiring a better understanding of how young cancer patients participate in decisions, discussions, and actions when it comes to their health and health care. While parents and health care professionals often act as intermediaries when a child is ill, Justine, spoke directly to children living with cancer—ranging in ages from three to 17—and observed them receiving various aspects of their care, including chemotherapy and radiation.

Her work was supervised by a multidisciplinary and international team, including ISoN professors

Dr. Argerie Tsimicalis and Dr. Franco Carnevale; Dr. Sameer Bakhshi, Consultant Pediatric Oncologist and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences; and Dr. Ramandeep Singh Arora, Senior Consultant, Paediatric Oncology, Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi. Bani Bhattacharjee, RN, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, was also a part of the team and assisted with the data collection. Justine’s project provided much-needed empirical findings to spearhead childhood ethics research specific to pediatric oncology in India.

This project was conducted in collaboration with CanKids and VOICE (Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics). Justine was also recipient of the Global Health and Indigenous Nursing (GAIHN) Travel Award ($2,500), the McGill Travel Bursary ($1,500) and the Mobility Graduate Award ($1,500).


Masters Students Top Downloaded Research Paper Master’s Students; Olena Doronina, Denise Jones and Marianna Martello published the following systematic review; *Doronina O., *Jones, D., *Martello, M., Biron, A., & Lavoie-Tremblay, M. (2017). A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance of Nurses in the Hospital Setting. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 49(2), 143-152. This article was one of the journal’s top 10 most downloaded papers. As of year-end 2017, the article received 4526 downloads, creating impact and raising the visibility of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship as well.

Research in Action (RiA)Research in Action (RiA) is a student-level initiative where faculty members and students present on a specific research theme, organized into seminars throughout the academic year. The RiA seminars are presented by the ISoN, the Nursing Graduate Student Association and the Nursing Undergraduate Society. The RiA also has its own committee with membership from the ISoN Director of Research, one PhD graduate student, one MSc graduate student and one undergraduate student.

The mandate of the RiA is to;

1. Increase activities to socialize Graduate/Undergraduate students as research scholars

2. Increase visibility of our ISoN Research/Innovations/Chairs/Network Research in curriculum

3. Increase opportunity for students to be involved in research

4. Share information about conferences and other research events with students

To achieve these objectives, for the 2017 year, there were two seminars. The first was held in January 2017, with the theme of “Change and Innovation”. The second seminar took place in March 2017, with the theme of “Global Health’. Students from each educational level presented on their research projects.

For more information, please contact Aimee Castro, one of the RiA student coordinators at [email protected]

RiA

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Our PhD Students

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Doctoral & Post-Doctoral Students

12 PhD

2 Post-Doc

$424,772 of total funding for PhD students for the 2016-2017 academic year

Left to Right: Marianne Sofronas, Lydia Ould Brahim, Monica Parmar, Raíssa Passos dos Santos, Julie Fréchette and Aimee Castro.


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