Faculty & School/Dept.

Faculty of Health - School of Nursing

Degrees

Registered General Nurse - 1977
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Scotland

Registered Nurse - 1981
College of Nurses of Ontario
Toronto, ON

BScN - 1991
Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

MSc - 1994
Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

PhD - 1999
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Selected Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS

Widger, K., Cadell, S., Davies, B., Steele, R., Siden, H., & Wilson, K. (2012). Pediatric care in Canada. In C. Knapp, S. Fowler-Kerry, & V. Madden (Eds.), Pediatric palliative care: Global persepctives (pp. 301-321). New York: Springer.

Davies, B., Widger, K., Steele, R., Cadell, S., Siden, H., & Straatman, L. (2011). Research considerations. In J. Wolff, P. Hinds, & B. Sourkes (Eds.), Textbook of interdisciplinary pediatric palliative care (pp. 96-103). New York: Elsevier.

Davies, B., & Steele, R. (2010). Supporting families in palliative care. In B. R. Ferrell & N. Coyle (Eds.), Oxford textbook of palliative nursing (2nd ed.; pp. 613-627). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Steele, R., Robinson, C., Hansen, L., & Widger, K. (2010). Families and palliative/end-of-life care. In J. Kaakinen, V. Gedalfy-Duff, D. Coehlo, & S. Hanson (Eds.), Family health care nursing: Theory, practice and research (4th ed., pp. 273-306). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Rapoport, A. Steele, R., Shaheed, J., Newman, C., & Rugg, M. (in press, Jan. 2013). Parental perceptions of forgoing artificial delivery of nutrition and hydration during end-of-life care. Pediatrics.

Schneider, M., Steele, R., Cadell, S., & Hemsworth, D. (2011). Differences on psychosocial outcomes between male and female caregivers of children with life-limiting illnesses. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 26(3), 186-199. doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2010.01.007

Siden, H., Steele, R., Brant, R., Cadell, S., Davies, B., Straatman, L., Widger, K., & Andrews, G. (2010). Designing and implementing a longitudinal study: Charting the Territory. BMC Pediatrics, 10, #67. doi:10.1186/1471-2431-10-67

Widger, K., Steele, R. Davies, B., & Oberle, K. (2009). Exploring the Supportive Care Model as a framework for pediatric palliative care. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 11(4), 209-216. [Selected as the Continuing Education article, pp. 217-218]

Other Research Outputs

 

2012-present   Editor, In J. Rowe Kaakinen, A. Tabacco, D. Coehlo, R. Steele, & S. Hanson (Eds.), Family health care nursing: Theory, practice and research (5th ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.

Currently, Manuscript Reviewer: Nursing Inquiry; Psycho-Oncology; Journal of Pediatric Nursing; Health Psychology Review; Journal of Palliative Care

Aug. 2010 Reviewer, Grant Proposal
Seeds4Hope, Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation, Ontario, Canada

Mar. 2010 Reviewer, Grant Proposal
Lytmos Group, LLC, Lee’s Summit, Missouri

April 2009 Reviewer, Grant Proposal
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

Jan. 2009 Reviewer, Research Training Fellowships for Healthcare Professionals
Research Management Unit, Health Research Board, Dublin, Ireland (Eire)

 

Affiliations

Affiliate Investigator, BC
Neurons to Neighbourhoods research cluster, Child & Family Research Institute, BC Research Institute for Children’s & Women’s Health, Vancouver, BC

Adjunct Scientist, SickKids Hospital
Child Health Evaluative Sciences (formerly Population Health Sciences Division of the Research Institute), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

Member, TRAC-PG SickKids Hospital
Team for Research With Adolescents and Children in Palliation and Grief (TRAC-PG), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON

ADHD Coaches Organization
Professional member of ACO; coach for adults with AD/HD; partners, spouses, family, friends, coworkers of someone with AD/HD; and university students with AD/HD.

Center for Credentialing & Education
The Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE) created the Board Certified Coach (BCC) credential as a means to independently verify that applicants have met professional coaching competency standards established by CCE and subject matter experts. These standards reflect the common knowledge, skills and abilities of a professional coach. My own specialty is coaching around AD/HD with adults.

Partnerships

Canadian Virtual Hospice
Professional, researcher; videotaped about pediatric palliative care. Early reports from various partners indicate that the videos have: changed practice, been embedded in professional development modules and other training initiatives, provided support to families and been shared on Youtube and Facebook. Since 2009, traffic to Virtual Hospice has increased by 300% - the viewership for the videos is broad and varied (patients, families and other support networks, health providers, researchers, educator, volunteers, students and more) – and growing.

Awards

YUFA Merit Award - 2011

YUFA Merit Award - 2010

YUFA Merit Award - 2009

YUFA Merit Award - 2008

YUFA Merit Award - 2005

YUFA Merit Award - 2004

Atkinson Research Fellowship Award - 2004

Supervision

Currently available to supervise graduate students: No

Currently taking on work-study students, Graduate Assistants or Volunteers: No

Available to supervise undergraduate thesis projects: No

Current Research

Member of a CIHR-funded New Emerging Team in pediatric palliative care since 2004. The team's mandate includes fostering interdisciplinary research in this emerging area of health care. Through new funding in 2011 (CIHR, $375,328), the team continues to work together on multiple projects. Recent studies within the team include a Delphi process to identify research priorities in Canada; an exploratory study of families' transition to a pediatric hospice; and an ongoing study about stress and growth in parents. Qualitative and/or quantitative approaches are used within research studies depending on the research question.

Co-Principal Investigator on an innovative longitudinal study that is determining and documenting the bio-psycho-social-spiritual trajectories of families where a child has a life-threatening metabolic, genetic, or neurological condition ($1,343,000, 2008-2013). http://chartingterritory.com/

Co-Principal Investigator on a funded  3-year qualitative project (CIHR, $404,743) that is examining best practices in pediatrics.

Research Projects

Best practices: Parent/provider interactions in pediatrics
The purpose of this study is to observe parent/clinician interactions, as well as interview participants, to determine best practices in pediatrics. Three sites in Vancouver provide the settings for this study
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Amount funded: $404,743
Year Funded: 2011
Duration: 3
Funded by: Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Charting the territory: Determining and documenting trajectories for families where a child has a life-threatening condition
Co-PI. Quantitative, longitudinal 5-year. Determining and documenting bio-psycho-social-spiritual trajectories
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Amount funded: $1,343,000
Year Funded: 2008
Duration: 5
Funded by: Canadian Institutes of Health Research

PedPalASCNet: A network for accessible, sustainable, and collaborative research in pediatric palliative care
Extending our existing network in pediatric palliative care to encompass researchers and clinicians from coast-to-coast in Canada.
Role: CoInvestigator
Amount funded: $375,328
Year Funded: 2011
Duration: 3
Funded by: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Other funding: Norman Saunders Complex Care Initiative