Publications

  • Jefferies, K. (2021). Advancing Nursing in Canada: Towards Eliminating Anti-Black Racism. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 34(4), 139-143.  
  • Paynter, M., Jefferies, K., Carrier, L. & Goshin, L. (2021). A Feminist Abolitionist Nursing Ethics. Advances in Nursing Science, 45(1), 1-17.  
  • Moody, E., Ganann, R., Martin-Misener, R., Ploeg, J., Macdonald, M., Weeks, L., Orr, E., McKibbon, S. & Jefferies, K. (2022). Out-of-pocket expenses related to aging-in-place for older people with frailty: a scoping review. Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 17(11), 2326-2333.  
  • Paynter, M., Matheson, L., McVicar, L., Jefferies, K., Gebre, K., Marshall, P., Zylstra, G., MacEachern, D., Thomas, L. & Palliser-Nicholas, F. Peer Doula Support Training for Excluded Groups in Nova Scotia: A Community-Based Qualitative Study. Public Health Nursing, 39(1). doi:10.1111/phn.12955 
  • Cameron, E. & Jefferies, K. (2021). Anti-Black racism in Canadian education: A call to action to support the next generation. Health Populations Journal, 1(1), 11-15. 
  • Jefferies, K. & Price, S. (2021). African Nova Scotian Grit: A Scholarly Personal Narrative About Nursing Leadership. Health Populations Journal, 1(1), 34-42.  
  • Jefferies, K., Richards, T., Blinn, N., Sim, M., Kirk, K., Dhami, G., Helwig, M., Iduye, D., Moody, E., Macdonald, M., Tomblin Murphy, G. & Martin-Misener, R. (2021). Food security in African Canadian communities: A Scoping Review. Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 20(1). doi:10.11124/JBIES-20-00394  
  • Sim M, Rothfus M, Aston M, Kirk S, Frank L, Jefferies K, Macdonald M.  Breastfeeding experiences among mothers living with food insecurity in high resource, Western countries:  A protocol for the synthesis of qualitative evidence.  Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 19(3), 675-681. doi:10.11124/JBIES-20-00052.
  • Jefferies, K. (2020). The Strong Black Woman: Insights and Implications for Nursing. The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 28(4). doi: 10.1177/1078390320983900 
  • Jefferies, K. (2020). Intersectionality Book Review. Atlantis, 41(2), 99-101. Available at: https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5544  
  • Macdonald, M., Yu, Z., Weeks, L. E., Moody, E., Wilson, B., Almukhaini, S., Martin-Misener, R., Sim, M., Jefferies, K., Iduye, D., Need, D. & McKibbon, S. Assistive technologies that support social interaction in long-term care homes: a scoping review. Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 19(10), 2695-2738. 
  • Paynter, M., Jefferies, K. & Carrier, L. (2020). Nurses for police and prison abolition/ Infirmières pour l’abolition de la police et des prisons/ Enfermeras para la abolición de la policía y las prisiones. Public Health Nursing37(4), 471-474. 
  • Jefferies, K., Martin-Misener, R., Tomblin Murphy, G., Helwig, M., Thomas Bernard, W., Gahagan, J. African Canadian nurses in the nursing profession in Canada: A scoping review protocol. (2021). Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 19(4), 883-890. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00376.  
  • Paynter, M., Jefferies, K., McKibbon, S., Martin-Misener, R., Iftene, A., Tomblin Murphy, G. (2020). Mother Child Programs for Incarcerated Mothers and Children and Associated Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review. Nursing Leadership, 33(1), 81-99. doi:10.12927/cjnl.2020.26189
  • Searle, J., Carrier, L, Jefferies, K. & Yu, Z. (2019). Diverse representation in nursing leadership: Developing a shared position statement on allyship. Creative Nursing, 25(4), 316-321.  
  • Jefferies, K., Tomblin Murphy, G., Helwig, M. (2019). Food security in African Canadian communities: A Scoping Review Protocol. Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports (JBISRIR), 18(5), 1108-1115. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-19-00069
  • Macdonald, D., Aston, M., Tomblin Murphy, G., Jefferies, K, Mselle, L., Price, S., O'Hearn, S., White, M., Mbekenga, C., Kohi, T. (2019). Providing postpartum care with limited resources: The experiences of nurse-midwives and obstetricians in Tanzania. Women and Birth, 32(3), 391-398. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2018.07.016. 
  • Jefferies, K. (2018). A Personal Leadership Development Plan for Black Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Students. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership31(4), 57-62. 
  • Jefferies, K., Aston, M. & Tomblin Murphy, G. (2018). Black Nurses Leaders in the Canadian Healthcare System. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership31(4), 50-56. 
  • Jefferies, K., Tamlyn, D., Aston, M., Tomblin Murphy, G. (2018). Promoting visible minority diversity in Canadian nursing. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research51(1) doi: 10.1177/0844562118795812  
  • Jefferies, K., Goldberg, L., Aston, M., Tomblin Murphy, G. (2018). Understanding the invisibility of Black nurse leaders using a Black Feminist Poststructuralist Framework. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27 (15-16), 3225-3234.  
  • Mbekenga, C., Aston, M., Macdonald, D., Jefferies, K., Price, S., Mselle, L, Tomblin Murphy, G., Kohi, T., O’Hearn, S., White, M. (2018). How Tanzanian nurse-midwives and obstetricians develop postpartum relationships with women. International Journal of Childbirth, 8(1), 41-53. 
  • Kohi, T. W., Aston, M., Mselle, L. T., Macdonald, D., Mbekenga, C., Murphy, G. T., Jefferies, K. (2017). Saving lives with caring assessments: How Tanzanian nurse‐midwives and obstetricians negotiate postpartum practices. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 5004-5015. doi:10.1111/jocn.14000 
  • Mselle, L. T., Aston, M., Kohi, T. W., Mbekenga, C., Macdonald, D., White, M., Jefferies, K. (2017). The challenges of providing postpartum education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Narratives of nurse-midwives and obstetricians. Qualitative Health Research, 27(12), 1792-1803. doi:10.1177/1049732317717695