Media Releases and Opportunities

Today marks the start of National Nurses Week; given that the theme this year is The Power of Nurses to Transform Health, we wanted highlight some of our faculty members and researchers who do just that through research, teaching and collaboration.

Dalhousie’s School of Nursing is home to respected faculty members who are among the world’s leaders in nursing research and education; they are committed to expanding nursing knowledge, furthering practice and seeking better health care outcomes for Canadians and populations around the world. 

Below are several faculty members who are available this week to talk about their research and how they are working to transform healthcare and contribute to healthier communities.  

Dr. Elaine Moody
Associate Professor, Dalhousie School of Nursing

Dr. Moody’s research is focused on better understanding the context of health and health care for older people, particularly those with complex health and social care needs such as older people with frailty, multimorbidity and dementia. Dr. Moody can speak to how her work aims to support older people across care settings, including the community, primary care and acute hospitals. 

Dr. Margot Latimer
Professor, Dalhousie School of Nursing

Dr. Latimer holds the first CIHR Nursing Chair: Indigenous Health Research in the Maritimes. She has held clinical roles at the IWK since beginning her nursing practice; these roles have inspired her research endeavours which focus on Aboriginal children's hurt and pain and improving the health care experiences and outcomes for this population. Dr. Latimer can speak to how her work operates from a Two-Eyed Seeing perspective and aims to incorporate the best of both Indigenous and Western ways to improve health care for Aboriginal children. 

Dr. Latimer would be pleased to have a Mi’kmaw nurse graduate student accompany her in an interview.

Dr. Megan Aston
Professor and Associate Director of Research, Dalhousie School of Nursing 

Dr. Aston's program of research focuses on family, perinatal, child, and newborn health and is guided by feminist poststructuralism a qualitative methodology. She can speak to her research in Canada and Tanzania and how it has improved postpartum care through virtual village online postpartum support sessions, mapping mothers’ social networks; postpartum home visits; and hospital experiences of children with intellectual disabilities. 

Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener
Professor and Director, Dalhousie School of Nursing, Assistant Dean Research, Faculty of Health 

Dr. Martin-Misener’s research uses mixed methods to evaluate implementation and outcomes of innovative interdisciplinary team-based models of care in primary health care and long-term care with a particular focus on nurse practitioner and other advanced and specialized nursing roles such as nurse practitioners (NPs).  

Dr. Martin-Misener can provide a high-level view on the expanded scope of practices for nurses and what it means to heath care. She supervises supervise three doctoral students who are nurse practitioners and would be happy to include them in any interview.

If you would like to set up an interview, please reach out to Terry Murray-Arnold (tmurraya@dal.ca), communications manager, Faculty of Health or Lindsay Dowling-Savelle (lindsay.savelle@dal.ca), media relations manager, Dalhousie Communications.