Between May and August, the MCNHR ran its Summer Internship Program for a

second year.

The MCNHR would like to extend its

thanks to all faculty that participated

in the summer internship program

through requests for research support.

Special thanks to our dedicated faculty

mentors (Donna Martin, Marie Ed-

wards, Elaine Mordoch and Bev Tem-

ple) for making this year’s Summer

Internship Program a huge success!

Finally, a big thank-you to our sum-

mer interns, Angela Miller, Denae

Warkentin and Alison Kirk for all

their outstanding work.

Donna Martin and Roberta Woodgate “A

Family Health Needs Assessment with a

First Nations Community using Critical and

Indigenous Methodologies

Marie Edwards and Susan McClement

“Ethics and the Interface Between Long-

term Care and Emergency Settings

Marie Edwards and Susan McClement

“Exploring Ethical Practice in Palliative

Home Care Using Appreciative Inquiry”

Summer Internship Program

Mentors & Projects

U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A N I T O B A

MANITOBA CENTRE FOR NURSING

AND HEALTH RESEARCH

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 1 D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T

D R . L E S L E Y

D E G N E R

A C T I N G D I R E C T O R

& A S S O C I A T E

D E A N , R E S E A R C H

Contents of this

Report:

Summer Internship Pro-

gram—Mentors & Pro-

jects

Researcher in Residence

2011 & 2012

Nursing Education Quality

Assurance Projects

MCNHR 2nd Annual

Graduate Student Poster

Competition

MCNHR Grants

MCNHR Membership—

New members & Awards

Received

Left to Right:

Angela Miller, Alison Kirk, Denae Warkentin

Elaine Mordoch “How Do Service Pro-

viders Perceive Parents with Mental Illness

and their Children

Beverley Temple “Nurses Perceptions of

Use of Evidence in Practice: Influencing

Factors

The MCNHR received a total of five faculty applications to the 2011 Summer Internship

Program and all five applications were approved.

This years’ faculty mentors and projects were:

DID YOU

KNOW...

In 1972, Dr. Helen

Glass was named

Director of the

School of Nursing at

the University of

Manitoba. During her

tenure she estab-

lished a graduate pro-

gram in nursing, and

was instrumental in

the creation of the

MCNHR (formerly

Manitoba Nursing

Research Institute).

MARK YOUR

CALENDARS:

2012 Researcher in

Residence during

Nurses’ week

(May 6,-12 2012)

The 2011 Dr. H. Glass Researcher-in-

Residence was Dr. Mary Canales, Associ-

ate Professor in the Department of Nursing

at the University of Wisconsin-Eau

Claire. Dr. Canales delivered several pres-

entations including “Translating Research

to Practice”, “Othering and How to En-

gage with the Other”, “Different Ways to

Use Qualitative Research; Old Applica-

tions with New Twists” and “Indigenous

Populations and Cancer; Compare and

Contrast Dialogue”

The 2011 event attracted and united

nurses from across the province and research

colleagues from many different disciplines.

The third annual MCNHR members meeting

was held in conjunction with the Dr. Canales

public lecture where we discussed how to en-

gage current and future members of the

MCNHR. A reception prior to the public lec-

ture provided a relaxing environment for net-

working with colleagues.

Dr. Glass’s support and participation was once

again received as one of highlights of the

event from attendees (from students who

were honored to meet Dr. Glass to current and

retired faculty and nurses who were able to

visit with Dr. Glass).

A big thank-you goes out to Chair of the Re-

searcher in Residence Committee, Dr. Diana

McMillan and committee members, Donna

Martin, Sue Hicks and Daniel Gagne. Thanks

also to MCNHR staff, especially Lisa Wolfe-

Ulrich for all her work in coordinating this

years’ event. Our gratitude and thanks are also

extended to Dr. Glass for creating the vision

and legacy for the Researcher in Residence

program to promote excellence in nursing re-

search in Manitoba.

P A G E 2

M A N I T O B A C E N T R E F O R N U R S I N G A N D H E A L T H R E S E A R C H

The 2012 Dr. H. Glass Researcher-in-

Residence will be Dr. Nancy Edwards, RN,

PhD. The MCNHR is also planning a Re-

search Day on Friday, May 11, 2012 in con-

junction with this event.

Dr. Nancy Edwards is a Full

Professor in the School of

Nursing, and the Department of

Epidemiology and Community

Medicine, University of Ot-

tawa; Director of the Commu-

nity Health Research Unit;

Principal Scientist, Institute of

Population Health; Senior Scientist, Élisa-

beth Bruyère Research Institute; and Aca-

demic Consultant, City of Ottawa (Public

Health Services). Dr. Edwards obtained her

undergraduate nursing degree from the Uni-

versity of Windsor and completed graduate

studies in epidemiology at McMaster Uni-

versity and McGill University. Dr. Edwards

held a CHSRF/CIHR Chair Award in Nurs-

ing (2000-2010) focused on “Multiple In-

terventions in Community Health Nursing

Care”. Dr. Edwards is also the Scientific

Director for the CIHR Institute of Popula-

tion and Public Health.

2011

2012

Researcher in Residence

Left to Right: Dr. Diana Clarke, Dr. Helen Glass,

Dr. Mary Canales

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T P A G E 3

DID YOU

KNOW...

62% of 2010 U of

M Nursing Gradu-

ates were work-

ing or offered

employment im-

mediately after

senior practicum

Employment Status and

Preferred Employment of BN

Graduates

The MCNHR continues to survey graduating under-

graduate nursing students on their employment status

and preferred employment as they exit the four year

nursing program. Graduates are also asked to give

their perceptions about the employment opportunities

and challenges for graduating nursing students in

Manitoba. In addition, feedback on the nursing educa-

tion program is also gathered. The 2010 Undergradu-

ate Report is available on our website.

Nursing Education Quality

Assurance Projects

Province-wide New Nursing Graduates Survey

The proposal for MCNHR to coordinate the surveying of nursing graduates from nursing programs

in the province was approved from Manitoba Health as a one year pilot project. The MCNHR will be

surveying new nursing graduates (BNs only) 6 months after they graduate from the University of

Manitoba, Red River College, Brandon University, University College of the North and St. Boniface

College. Beginning in the spring, graduates from October 2011 will be surveyed.

Employers’ Survey In collaboration with the WRHA, RHAM,

and CRNM, we revised the process of ob-

taining feedback about new graduates from

employers. We trialed the use of focus

groups with employers as a new method of

obtaining this feedback. The final report

on “Nurse Managers’ Perspectives on the

Entry Level Competencies of New Nurs-

ing Graduates from the University of

Manitoba BN Program” has been com-

pleted and an executive summary of the

report will be posted online shortly.

The MCNHR Graduate Student Research Poster Competition provides a forum to showcase graduate

student research recently completed or in progress. This 2nd Annual Graduate Student Poster Com-

petition was held in conjunction with events of the 2011 Dr. Helen Glass Researcher-in-Residence,

Dr. Mary Canales. The poster competition was open to all current or recent (within the last year)

graduate students in the Faculty of Nursing or current graduate students in the PhD program in Ap-

plied Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary PhD, or PhD in Cancer Control with an advisor who is a

member of the Faculty of Nursing. The judges for this year’s competition were Bev Temple, Jo-Ann

Lapointe-McKenzie and Lindsey Hoogsteen.

Congratulations to the following winners:

Gold Awards ($400 each)

Hamideh Bayrampour (Maureen Heaman),

“Comparison of perception of pregnancy risk of

nulliparous women in advanced maternal age and

younger age”

Karen Throndson (Jo-AnnSawatzky,

“Exploring the health behaviours practices of

elective ad-hoc percutaneous coronary interven-

tion (PCI) patients”

Bronze Award ($200)

Patricia Gregory (MaureenHeaman),

“A comparison of health practices in

pregnant women with and without

complications of pregnancy”

MCNHR 2nd Annual Graduate Student

Poster Competition

M A N I T O B A C E N T R E F O R N U R S I N G A N D H E A L T H R E S E A R C H

D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R T P A G E 4

The MCNHR is pleased to announce that it has

received funding from the Faculty of Nursing

Endowment Fund for dedicated funding for

three years to support the establishment a fund-

ing source for small scale nursing research pro-

jects ($7,500) related to professional founda-

tions. Professional foundations research in-

cludes investigations into areas that are founda-

tional to nursing practice and includes topics

such as the history of nursing and nursing work

-life, professional ethics, and nursing admini-

stration as well as topics that are critical to the

Faculty of Nursing, such as research into new,

innovative approaches to nursing education and

issues related to student life.

Faculty of Nursing Endowment Fund Research

Grant in Professional Foundations

MCNHR Grants

The MCNHR is pleased to announce its 2011

MCNHR grant recipients:

Patricia Gregory and Maureen Heaman

Factors related to women's experiences and satis-

faction with prenatal care

Kathleen and Winnifred Ruane Graduate Student

Research Grant for Nurses ($3,000)

The call for request

for applications

will be released this

Fall with the first

competition to be held

in Spring 2012.

Review of the MCNHR

A three year report “Review of the Manitoba Centre

for Nursing and Health Research 2008-2010” was

submitted to Dr. Digvir Jayas, Vice-President, Re-

search and Chair of the Senate Committee on Uni-

versity Research On March 31, 2011. Thanks to

everyone who took time out of their busy schedules

to provide letters of support of the MCNHR.

Research Strategic Plan

The Faculty of Nursing has developed a

Five Year Strategic Research Plan. Thanks

to all faculty members who participated in

research strategic planning meetings and

those who provided comments and feed-

back in the development of this plan. Spe-

cial thanks to Diana Clarke for providing

the leadership in developing the research

Elaine Mordoch, Angela Osterricher, Lorna Guse, Kerstin Roger,

Genevieve Thompson Promoting intergenerational relationships between great grandchil-

dren/grandchildren whose great/grand parents have dementia and re-

side in long term care

Fort Garry Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund Grant ($3,000)

Patricia Gregory

Maureen Heaman

Elaine Mordoch

Maureen Heaman and Patricia Gregory

Factors related to women's experiences and satisfaction with

prenatal care

MCNHR Research Grant ($1,000)

D I D Y O U

K N O W …

The MCNHR

currently has over

200 members,

including:

36 Professional

Affiliates

59 Research

Affiliates

100+ graduate

student members

M A N I T O B A C E N T R E F O R N U R S I N G A N D H E A L T H R E S E A R C H

M A N I T O B A C E N T R E F O R

P A G E 5

MCNHR Membership

The MCNHR has revised its membership categories to include two new categories:

1) Friends of the MCNHR

We are currently looking for members to recruit as “Friends” of the MCNHR and

have begun mailing out invitation letters and to date have signed up “7” friends

of the MCNHR. If you know of retired faculty, retired nurses, or others who might be

interested in joining as “Friends”, please let us know.

2) Graduate Student Affiliates

A total of 114 current graduate students (MN students and PhD students whose advi-

sors are from FON) have been appointed as Graduate Student Affiliates of the

MCNHR for the tenure of their studies.

Dr. W. Dean Care, Dean & Professor of Health Studies at Brandon

University and member of the MCNHR was awarded the College of

Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) Board of Director’s Award

of Distinction at the CRNM Awards Dinner and Banquet in May

2011.

MCNHR Members Honored by the CRNM

Congratulations to Dr. An-

nette Schultz, Principal Inves-

tigator in the Psychosocial On-

cology and Cancer Nursing

Research Group on receiving

an Rh Award for “Outstanding

Contributions to Scholarship

and Research in the Health

Sciences Category.”

The MCNHR congratulates

Dr. Michelle Lobchuk who

has been awarded a five year

Manitoba Research Chair in

the area of Caregiving Commu-

nication from the Manitoba

Health Research Council

(MHRC).

Congratulations!

Faculty of Nursing and MCNHR members, Drs. William Diehl-Jones and Genevieve

Thompson were awarded an CRNM Excellence in Professional Nursing Award for

their research work. Professor Marilyn Seguire was awarded an CRM Excellence in

Professional Nursing Award for her contribution to nursing education.

M A N I T O B A C E N T R E F O R N U R S I N G A N D H E A L T H R E S E A R C H

Manitoba Centre for Nursing and Health Research

Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba

89 Curry Place

Winnipeg, MB R2T 2N2

Tel: 204.474.9080

Fax: 204.474.7683

mcnhr@cc.umanitoba.ca

Visit our website at:

http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/nursing/mcnhr/index.html

MANITOBA CENTRE FOR NURSING AND HEALTH

RESEARCH DIRECTOR’S REPORT

SEPTEMBER 2011