Dr. Carla Ginn Advances Knowledge About the Health Effects of Structural and Social Vulnerability
Dr. Carla Ginn, RN, MScN, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary (Canada). Dr. Ginn’s research is focused on individuals, families, and communities. Through her research she examines the health effects of structural and social vulnerability, intergenerational resiliency, links between health, spirituality, and wellbeing. She is engaged in community-based, participatory, patient-centered research collaborations with community agencies such as CUPS, Inn from the Cold, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA)- Region 3. Dr. Ginn has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for Patient-Oriented Research for a study titled, “Connection to identity/ancestry, community, land, and spirituality: Exploring individual, family, and community wellbeing within the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA)-Region 3”.
For more information, contact IFNA member Carla Ginn.
Twitter: @GinnCarla
Dr. Margie Burns Focuses on Interventions to Support Rural Families Experiencing the Critical Illness of a Family Member
Margie Burns, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada). Margie has more than 20 years of nursing practice experience in general and speciality intensive care units in Australia, Canada, and Scotland. Her research focuses on the family members’ experiences of a relative’s critical illness and interventions to support families during and after this event. Margie is particularly interested in the experiences of families from rural areas and their experiences when a critically ill relative requires an interfacility transfer to a distant urban centre for advanced critical care services.
For more information, contact IFNA member [email protected]
Twitter: @MargieBurnsPhD
Recent publication: Burns, M., Bally, J., & Burles, M. (2022). Constructivist grounded theory or interpretive phenomenology? Methodological choices within specific study contexts. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. http://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221077758
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Dr. Kristen Abbott-Anderson Focuses on Enhancing Quality of Life for People Living with Dementia
Kristen Abbott-Anderson, PhD, RN, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Minnesota State University, Mankato (USA) and the newly appointed Director of the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute. She is also currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Family Nursing Association.
Dr. Abbott-Anderson’s passion is for building relationships, professionally, and with clients experiencing chronic health conditions and at the end of life. Dr. Abbott-Anderson has extensive clinical practice and research experience in Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementias and women’s health across the lifespan. Her current research focuses on enhancing quality of life for people living with dementia (PWD) through facilitating meaning-making programs designed to enhance connectedness between the PWD and their care partner (CP). Dr. Abbott-Anderson holds a certification as a nurse educator and is an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) educator in core and geriatric curricula.
For more information, contact Kristen Abbott-Anderson: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-abbott-anderson-72b09811/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kristen43893690