Peggy L Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN |
Title of presentation: Evidence: Fad, Fiction or Fact?
Brief description: This presentation will explore the recent trends emphasizing evidence-based practice, examine some of the pitfalls that are emerging in the process, and propose directions for the future that place nursing practice and health care on a more solid foundation.
Short Biosketch
Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Her BS in nursing is from the University of Hawaii, and Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. She authors books and journal articles in the areas of nursing theory, feminism and nursing, the art of nursing, and nursing education. She is the founding editor of Advances in Nursing Science, one of nursing’s premier journals that has published cutting-edge scholarship in nursing since 1978. Her book Peace and Power: Creative Leadership for Building Communities is used world-wide in community activist groups, classrooms, and as a model for emancipatory/action research methods. She recently completed the 8th Edition of the text co-authored with Maeona Kramer, titled Integrated Theory and Knowledge Development in Nursing. In this edition Drs. Chinn and Kramer address many of the issues concerning the trend of evidence-based practice, and the implications of this trend for knowledge development and practice.
Her current focus for activism is the Nurse Manifest Project, a web-based project (www.nursemanifest.com) to inspire grass-roots action by nurses to shape the future of nursing and health care. Co-founded with Richard Cowling (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Sue Hagedorn (Univeristy of Colordado), the project incorporates Peace and Power approaches to creating change. She is co-author of the recent on-line text and continuing education program titled LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know about Sexual and Gender Diversity (http://www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/static.asp?pageid=928987). She enjoys the frequent company of her graddaughters, Sophie and Elodie, and nurtures peace and tranquility in daily living by playing the dulcimer and harp, quilting, drumming and chanting and meditative walking.
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Doris Howell, PhD, RN
Scientist
Division of Psychosocial Oncology & Palliative Care
Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) |
Title of presentation: Optimizing nurse knowing in practice to transform experience of living with cancer
Brief Description: This presentation will examine the limitations of the current conceptualization of evidence-based practice for improving the quality of nursing care and the need to advance all ways of nurse knowing to optimize health outcomes and transform person-centered experience of living with a life-threatening illness.
Short Biosketch
Dr. Doris Howell is RBC, Chair Oncology Nursing Research, University Health Network and Scientist, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Ontario Cancer Institute & Adjunct Scientist Cancer Care Ontario and Assistant, Professor, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. Dr. Howell leads a program of research on understanding the psychosocial factors that impact on subjective meaning of symptoms with also a focus on self-regulatory/self-management interventions across the cancer trajectory.
Dr. Howell is a PhD graduate of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (outcomes and evaluation stream) at the University of Toronto. Dr. Howell has expertise in health services research regarding outcomes effectiveness of innovative models of care delivery. She also holds a national leadership role in the development of standards and guidelines to support effective care as part of screening for distress implementation across Canada with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. She has also conducted implementation research to improve nurses practice in symptom care. She is an invited speaker regarding topics related to domains of issues in palliative and end-of-life care, illness meaning and practice change.
Dr. Howell’s research focuses on the contribution of patient’s own explanatory models of illness to the personal construction of meaning of symptoms and is designing self-regulatory/psychoeducational self-management interventions for improve symptom outcomes.. She teaches in the graduate program in the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto using an empirical-reflective model for nursing with an emphasis on differentiating between illness and disease in care provision. |
