Research

Dave Holmes, Full Professor in the School of Nursing received the first University Chair in Forensic Nursing in 2009. 

Dave’s research activities are carefully designed and planned to support and disseminate research focused on nursing care at the intersection of health care and criminal justice within the psychiatric (especially forensic psychiatry) and public health sectors. Research results have served to inform health professionals, researchers, educators, students, and decision-makers about health care issues relevant to offenders and victims of criminal acts. Moving forward Dave will modify his previous research trajectory by including technology as a major component of all his public health projects. The next five years of his program of research will be dedicated to developing new knowledge about sexual health/risk/technology/violence and developing a highly innovative field of forensic nursing research exploring trauma.

Dave is well known in Canada and internationally for his ideas and work on the use of seclusion, mechanical restraints, and chemical restraints in psychiatry and his strong criticism of a number of public health policies.

Janet Squires, Full Professor in the School of Nursing was first awarded the University Research Chair in Health Evidence Implementation in 2015. In her first term Janet’s main focus was to generate knowledge about the role of context in facilitating or hindering implementation activities targeting healthcare professionals.  In accomplishing this Janet became recognized as a leader in implementation science and in the role of context in implementation, nationally and internationally.

Over the next five years the goals of Janet’s research program are first to advance the measurement of context in implementation and second to inform quality improvement programs in the country by completing a systematic review of inappropriate health care in Canada.  

The global objective of Ryan’s research program is to merge biomechanics and data science to optimize human health and performance in clinical settings, workplaces, sport, and activities of daily living.  

The Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award (KMbE Award) is designed to recognize researchers who have conducted a successful and innovative project in promoting and facilitating the use of research outside academia.

In an interview O’Byrne explains how he and his team in partnership with Ottawa Public Health conducted a research review of the local epidemiology of syphilis which led to the identification of an outbreak.  Read more here.

Patrick will be hosting a virtual seminar on June 22^nd at 12:00 entitled “The Resurgence of Syphilis in Ottawa: Moving from Epidemiology to Practice-Changing Research for Nurses.” Register here.

In our previous article we introduced Dr. Stacey’s newly developed patient decision aid tools:

During the COVID-19 Pandemic,

• Should I go to live elsewhere or stay in my retirement/assisted living home?
• Should I or my family member go to live with family or stay in the long-term care or nursing home?