Shelley Spurr, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She led the development of a program titled Caring for Kids Where They Live which is an interprofessional pediatric clinical learning environment that brings together students from the colleges of Nursing, Dentistry, Medicine, and Kinesiology in order to build capacity and improve the standard of care. The collaboration among health professionals and students within this Interprofessional clinical learning experience allows for effective pediatric care to be provided for children, adolescents, and their families where they live. The success of this program led to recognition by the Saskatchewan Registered Nursing Association for leadership in nursing practice.
Her teaching expertise includes pediatric and family nursing, and her pedagogy is founded in the application of the four pillars of client-and family-centered care including information sharing, collaboration, respect, and participation (Institute of Patient and Family-Centered Care, 2018), and the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright and Leahey, 2013). The student experiences are developed to allow consistent interaction with families/family members who have had involvement with the health care system. The outcome is that new practitioners are fully immersed in the use and practice of client-and family-centered care, and the assessment and intervention with families. For more information contact IFNA member, Shelley Spurr.