Milestones
St Paul’s Hospital Joins SoN in Landmark Partnership to Promote Cardiovascular Health
On February 25, 2016, UBC Nursing and St. Paul’s Hospital announced the formation of a landmark partnership to improve cardiovascular nursing care at the hospital and across Canada. The new UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital Professorship in Cardiovascular Nursing is undertaking leading research to inform best practices around cardiovascular nursing, and translate these evidence-based practices to nursing education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at UBC.
The Professorship was born out of clinical research that clearly demonstrates the causal effect between nursing care and improved patient adherence to treatment and health outcomes. Clinical nurse specialists, in particular, who are trained in cardiovascular care, elevate quality of care and work with families towards holistically better health and in so doing, reduce health care costs for our communities.
The School of Nursing and St. Paul’s are together raising $1,000,000 to support the work of the Professorship, and are aiming to have the funds raised in 2016 so that the Professorship holder can start work in 2017.
If you are interested in learning more about the Professorship, please visit http://www.support.ubc.ca/cardiovascular-nursing or contact Darya Sawycky at 604 827-0081 or darya.sawycky@ubc.ca.
Canada Research Chair Bringing Big Data to Qualitative Research
Marginalization is a process of exclusion that has devastating effects for individuals and communities. As the first recipient of a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the UBC School of Nursing, Dr. Vicky Bungay is illuminating the complex multidimensional factors perpetuating marginalization among communities excluded along lines of gender and sexuality, including sex workers.
“The Canada Research Chair allows me to build and become more focused in the direction of the research that I do, but also in the methods that I use and the advancement of the approaches we use particularly in qualitative research,” she explains.
From 2015 to 2020, the salary support and related Canada Foundation for Innovation infrastructure funding will help her to construct a research informatics lab to incorporate large data sets typically not feasible in qualitative analyses. This could include using multiple sources of data as well as longitudinal material to tap into the incredible nuance and power of qualitative designs that can be overlooked because they are difficult to analyze on a large scale.
For example, Dr. Bungay hopes to incorporate historical analyses of the evolution of policy alongside the impact on peoples’ wellbeing, to examine whether shifts in policy have actually contributed to improvements or interacted in unexpected ways with other factors.
Ultimately, Dr. Bungay’s SSHRC-funded Chair in Gender, Equity and Community Engagement will build on her research program to generate knowledge to enhance more effective and just social policies and programs to promote the well-being of those who are marginalized.
The School of Nursing Hybrid Model of Undergraduate Curriculum Delivery: A Seamless Approach for Preparing Our Future Nurses
We are currently revising curriculum for our accelerated (20 month) undergraduate program with a goal of having new course descriptions and learning objectives in place before the end of 2016. In tandem, we are developing a flexible curriculum delivery model to better meet student learning needs. The purpose of this TLEF project is to develop, implement and evaluate a seamless curriculum delivery model for our undergraduate program. Our proposed model will have four linked components: online learning, in-class active learning (e.g., case-based), skills lab simulations and community-based experiential learning. Flexible curriculum delivery will enable us to keep pace with health care trends and better prepare future nurses. Other project objectives are: faculty development (to ensure sustainability of the flexible delivery model post-funding); and enhanced community engagement through purposeful academic-health authority collaborations.
Milestones 2016
- Spring/Summer Touchpoints published
- Victoria Bungay, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Equity and Community Engagement – February 9
- Cardio Professorship with St Paul’s Hospital – February 25
- External Review
- CASN Accreditation of BSN Program and UBC School of Nursing 2016 – 2023
- Graduate Research Symposium – May 3
- Alumni and Partnership Awards Gala – May 5
- Students in the Community: Homeless Connect – May 19
- Graduation – May 31
- (en)VISION 2020 Strategic Plan
- Orientation Days – August 31
- Flexible Curriculum Delivery Model Preparation
- Fall/Winter Touchpoints Published
Farewell to Tarnia and Farah
As our previous issue was heading to press, we said goodbye to two amazing colleagues who have moved on with their careers.
A tea was held for Dr. Tarnia Taverner in December as a send off to her new duties as the Director of Clinical Operations at Delta Hospital (Fraser Health Authority). Tarnia had been with us since 2009 as an Assistant Professor and an active educator in the graduate and undergraduate programs. She was also course leader for the adult/older adult professional nursing course, and an all-round fashion icon.
Ms. Farah Jetha entered into a long-term relationship with the School of Nursing in 1997 when she applied for the BSN nursing program. She obtained her MSN in 2013 and remained a dedicated and energetic Lecturer right up to her departure. In January she took her career to the next level at BCIT’s School of Health Sciences as an Instructor in Perinatal Nursing, becoming yet another UBC School of Nursing grad who will continue to make an indelible mark on the world.