Projects
Current Projects
Safe and Affirming Care
Examining how 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals and health care providers conceptualize and experience safe and affirming care in hospital-based settings. Read More
2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse
Exploring how a Island Health 2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse supports queer and trans people throughout their health care experiences. Read More
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Preventing Seclusion within Youth Mental Health Inpatient Settings
In partnership with Island Health and Mental Health Recovery Partners - South Island, this project builds on the insights of nurses and young adults who have experienced seclusion to develop new strategies for preventing seclusion. Read More
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Nursing Students’ Experiences of Discrimination
This study aims to examine nursing students’ experiences of discrimination within their programs, across undergraduate and graduate education. Read More
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The Missing Middle Project
Together with the BC Children's Hospital Missing Middle Team, this research seeks to enhance understandings of how youth are impacted by the 'missing middle' of mental health service delivery, and identify solutions to this concerning access gap. Read More
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In-Hospital Experiences of Gender-Affirming Surgery
Led by a UVic undergraduate nursing student, this research project draws on qualitative interviews with trans and non-binary people who have received gender-affirming surgery in British Columbia in the past five years. Read More​
Completed
Emergency Department Nurses’ Equity-Promoting Practices
Conducted as my dissertation research, this Foucauldian discourse analysis explored how discourse shapes nurses’ enactment of equity-promoting practices within the emergency department context. Read More
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Social Justice: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
The nursing profession upholds social justice as a core nursing value, yet disciplinary constructions of social justice are often vague and inconsistent. Read More​
