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- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Joanna Szabo
- Date issued
- 2020
- Description
- ABSTRACT Purpose: The experiences of parents caring for the complex care needs of children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders are not well understood. Parents struggle to meet their children’s medical, behavioural, and social needs within and across health, social, and family systems. The purpose of this study was to explore the parents’ experience of caring for medical and social care needs for children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods: Hermeneutic phenomenology was used for the data analysis. Fifteen parents participated in semi-structured interviews. Results: Interpretive analysis revealed four insights: (a) difference in children’s behaviours and disease...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter describes how seven disciplinary bottlenecks from four diverse disciplines were analyzed using a phenomenological perspective and includes a discussion of embodied knowing and implications for educators.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Aliyah Dosani; Shahirose S. Premji; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Background:Public health nurses (PHNs) care for and support late preterm infants (LPIs) and their families when they go home from the hospital. PHNs require evidence-informed guidelines to ensure appropriate and consistent care. The objective of this research study is to capture the lived experience of PHNs caring for LPIs in the community asa first step to improving the quality of care for LPIs and support for their parents. Methods: To meet our objectives we chose a descriptive phenomenology approach as a method of inquiry. We conducted semi-structured interviews with PHNs (n= 10) to understand PHN perceptions of caring for LPIs and challenges in meeting the needs of families within the...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Aliyah Dosani
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Late preterm infants often experience feeding difficulty post discharge from hospital. While breast milk is especially important for late preterm infants, they have lower exclusive breastfeeding rates than full term infants. This is because mothers of late preterm infants often do not receive sufficient amount of breastfeeding support in the postpartum period. Furthermore, in the Canadian context, guidelines do not exist for health care providers to use to assist them in providing breastfeeding support for mothers of late preterm infants in the community setting. We used a modified Delphi approach to begin to fill this gap. We present information relating to physiological development in...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Joanna Szabo; Bev Mathison; Sonya L. Jakubec; Sonya Flessati; Genevieve Currie
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- A pilot research project turned ongoing program sought to explore the experience of participating in an inclusive Campus Community Garden. In the confines of institutional research the project undertook a specific focus on uncovering the perceived benefits and barriers to participating preschoolers, older adults, individuals with mixed abilities and their caregivers from residential and intermediate care facilities. This paper describes a parallel exploration as an occurrent act of art making; an evolving rhizomatic process of poetic reflection on images and privileged notes from the field. In this work, the authors uncover the shape, movement, and colour of the joy/sorrow of tilling the...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Joanna Szabo
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Parent experiences of caring for children with neurodevelopmental disease have been silenced and constrained by social, political and health influences. There is a need to co‐construct new meanings and interpretations of parenting a child with complex disabilities by having an increased understanding of the struggles and barriers for parents. Methods: A hermeneutic phenomenology approach was applied in this inquiry. Fifteen parents of children with rare neurodevelopmental diseases participated in semi‐structured interviews. Results: Parents experienced silencing or being silenced within interactions with health‐care and social care systems and providers. Interpretive thematic...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Pamela M. Nordstrom; Genevieve Currie; Shirley Meyer
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Nursing education programs are designed to respond to the evolving requirements of nursing practice while supporting student transformation in becoming a nurse. Students in these programs often refer to them as academically challenging and stressful. The aim of this study was to understand the experience of nursing students compared to the general university student population and specifically, to explore if nursing students are perceiving more stress than students in other university programs. This study arises from an earlier study conducted annually for four years at a western Canadian university following the method referred to as the “Harvard Assessment Seminar” (Light, 2001). In the...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jennifer Boman; Genevieve Currie; Ron MacDonald; Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Stephanie Zettel
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- Tuning in on teaching practice in any discipline may well run up against a problem of tacit knowledge--knowledge crucial to the discipline’s ways of thinking and practicing, but by nature obscure. Teachers who omit to make their tacit knowledge explicit in the classroom cause learning bottlenecks for their students. Tacit knowledge can be made explicit to its teacher owner, with positive effect on her teaching, in an interview that invites her to address how she thinks and practices in work her students, lacking her tacit knowledge, find impossible to master (Middendorf & Pace, 2004). We have conducted half a dozen such 90-minute to two-hour interviews with university teachers in...
- Type
- presentations (communicative events)
- Appears in collection(s)
- Teaching and Learning; Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Margy MacMillan; Michelle Yeo; Genevieve Currie; David Pace; Brett McCollum; Janice Miller-Young
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Scholars of teaching and learning around the world and in many disciplines have been using the Decoding the Disciplines process to make explicit the mental operations that students must master to succeed. Teachers, as experts in their disciplines, often hold this knowledge in tacit and implicit ways that are not easily accessible to novices, resulting in "bottlenecks" to learning. A key step towards addressing bottlenecks is a Decoding interview in which teachers uncover and unpack crucial thinking with the help of two interviewers outside their field. The interview can yield important insights for teachers, generate data for SoTL work, and also play an important role in developing the...
- Type
- conference publication
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Aliyah Dosani; Jena Hemraj; Shahirose S. Premji; Genevieve Currie; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young; Marc Hall
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Background: The promotion and maintenance of breastfeeding with late preterm infants (LPIs) remain under examined topics of study. This dearth of research knowledge, especially for this population at-risk for various health complications, requires scientific investigation. In this study, we explore the experiences of mothers and the perceptions of public health nurses (PHNs) about breastfeeding late preterm infants in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Methods: We used an exploratory mixed methods design with a convenience sample of 122 mothers to gather quantitative data about breastfeeding. We collected qualitative data by means of individual face-to-face interviews with 11 mothers and 10 public...
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jennifer Boman; Genevieve Currie; Ron MacDonald; Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Stephanie Zettel
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- In this chapter we describe the “Decoding the Disciplines” Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University, and how Decoding has been used in new and multidisciplinary ways in the various teaching, curriculum and research projects which are presented in detail in subsequent chapters.
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes