Palliative Approaches

Home care nurses work: What is coordinating the work of nurses in home care?
2024-05-21 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Vancouver) | Zoom
Join us for Dr. Kelli Stajduhar’s CRC Talks May 21, 2024, 9:30-10:30 PDT! We are hosting Tanya Sanders RN PhD who will discuss her research on home care nurses work.
Description: The need for home care is growing, but little is known about the day-to-day nursing tasks and the institutional factors that impact this work. As part of a broader Canadian study on home care systems, I conducted an institutional ethnography with home care nurses in a Western Canadian health authority. The study revealed that nurses’ work is managed through texts and electronic health documentation systems. Factors such as efficiency demands, doing more with less, task shifting, market-driven principles, and externally defined, narrow safety measures were identified in their daily work. Nurses increasingly spend more time coordinating work and client care, leaving less time for direct interaction with clients. In her presentation, Tanya will discuss these findings and invite discussion on how these insights
might drive change.
Tanya Sanders RN PhD
Tanya is a faculty member at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. She has a keen interest in community health nursing and educating nurses for future practice. Tanya believes that the challenge ahead for nurses is defining and taking hold of our future practice, leading and directing how the role(s) of registered nurses will contribute to health and the nursing profession.
Check out the recording on our YouTube channel! Link
Support for these events provided by Dr. Stajduhar and the Canada Research Chairs Program, the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and School of Nursing. For more info, please email: palliative_approaches@uvic.ca

Indigenous Graduate Student Opportunity
2025-03-01
Our CIHR-Funded research project, “Supporting Vulnerable and Older Adults to be Cared for and to Die at ‘Home’”, is looking to do research better with direction provided by our Urban Indigenous Guidance Circle (UIGC). We are currently looking to recruit one or two Indigenous Graduate Students who might be looking for a unique opportunity to take part as a member of our UIGC for a minimum one-year term. A stipend of $5,000 per year will be provided to the successful applicant. Applications are due by March 1, 2025, and can be emailed to the project coordinator, Ami Bitschy, @ amice@uvic.ca. For more information around how to apply to this opportunity, the UIGC, or our research project – please read Call for Expressions of Interest document HERE

What next? Relationship-centred approaches for healthcare system redesign to meet the palliative care needs of people living with severe mental illness
2025-05-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join us for Dr. Kelli Stajduhar’s CRC Talks May 8, 12-1pm PST! We are hosting Sarah Yardley, PhD who will discuss: What next? Relationship-centred approaches for healthcare system redesign to meet the palliative care needs of people living with severe mental illness.
Sarah Yardley, PhD, Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine, University College London, UK.
Sarah researches relationship-centred practices in healthcare systems to reduce rhetoric vs. reality, policy vs. practice, expectations vs. experiences gaps. Her Churchill Fellowship seeks to improve care for people living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who need Palliative Care for advanced incurable physical illness.
When available, a recording of the event will be uploaded to our YouTube page. Stay tuned!
Support for these events provided by Dr. Stajduhar and the Canada Research Chairs Program, the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and School of Nursing. For more info, please email: palliative_approaches@uvic.ca

Mana Motuhake: Indigenous Families’ Aspirations and Experiences of Assisted Dying in Aotearoa New Zealand
2026-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join us for Dr. Kelli Stajduhar’s CRC Talks April 15, 12-1pm PDT! We are hosting Dr. Tess Moeke-Maxwell for a talk titled, Mana Motuhake: Indigenous Families’ Aspirations and Experiences of Assisted Dying in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Register here: https://uvic.zoom.us/meeting/register/dVnzRK0oSzSzUtte9rEehw
Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell, PhD (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki; Ngāti Porou) is a Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, University of Auckland and Co-Director Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. Tess Moeke-Maxwell is a descendant of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki and Ngāti Porou. She is a Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group at the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. Tess leads Kaupapa Māori “lived Indigenous experience” qualitative research on behalf of Te Ārai’s Kāhui advisory group. Improving end-of-life, palliative care and assisted dying experiences for Māori whānau (family, including extended family) are her research interests. Currently, she leads the Health Research Council funded ‘Waerea study’ on Māori whānau experiences using Assisted Dying services. Tess is an advisory member of the National Palliative Care Work Programme for Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand. In 2022, the Royal Society of NZ awarded Tess and Te Ārai Kāhui the NZ Health Research Council’s Te Tohu Rapuora Medal for research excellence with Māori communities. She was selected as one of New Zealand’s 100 Māori Leaders as part of the Henry Rongomau Bennett Foundation Leadership Strategy based on her contributions to Indigenous end-of-life care research.
Support for these events provided by Dr. Stajduhar and the Canada Research Chairs Program, the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and School of Nursing; Island Health; and Victoria Hospice. For more info, please email: palliative_approaches@uvic.ca
