Current Palliative Nursing Research Studies and Surveys
Current Surveys
Healthcare professionals: Service Canada wants to hear from you.
Do you have experience completing medical certificates for Employment Insurance (EI)? If so, participate in a confidential interview about your experience and help improve EI services.
📅When and where: September 2-29, 2026, over the phone or Microsoft Teams.
How you’ll be compensated: Get a $50 cash card for a 30-minute interview, or $100 for 45-60 minutes. Learn more and sign up: Employment Insurance Research
Learn more HERE
Mental Health Commission of Canada
In response to growing pressures on primary care providers to address mental health needs, the Mental Health Commission of Canada is exploring how best to strengthen the integration of mental health care into primary care across Canada.
We invite you to complete this brief survey and to share it with the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association network of health-care providers.
Here, we profile active research studies in palliative care nursing that are relevant to the national landscape of palliative care nursing in Canada.
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We encourage you to review the offerings below and click on the provided links to engage with the study protocol that is of interest to you.
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All questions about individual research protocols should be directed to contacts for each Study as indicated.
Research Proposals are the work of Academic Individuals or Groups and not affiliated with CPCNA. If Members of CPCNA are associated with any of the Research Protocols shared here, it is from the perspective of their separate professional affiliations, and not their role with CPCNA.
School Later in Life
Cancer Care Providers and Sexual Health
Whole Patient, Partial Record?
Exploring the Visibility of Belief-Based Data in Digital Palliative Systems
Palliative care nurses listen for patients’ values, culture, and meaning every day seeking to include it into care; yet much of this conversation remains invisible in electronic health records.
This graduate research study explores how nurses document and use belief-based information within digital systems, and what that means for compassionate, whole-person care at end of life.
Are you a RN offering palliative care and documenting digitally? Join one confidential, one-on-one 60 min virtual interview?
Click HERE for contact information
Invitation to participate in research study on language discordance and interpretation
Researchers from the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care (Sinai Health), Sunnybrook Research Institute and St. Michael’s Hospital are recruiting palliative care providers to share their experiences in the study “Professional Interpretation Use in Language-Discordant Palliative Care Communication”.
This Canada-wide study aims to examine palliative care providers’ current practices when engaging in language-discordant clinical encounters, and to define and understand the factors that influence provider decision making regarding interpretation use. Through understanding the considerations for effective interpretation use in language-discordant palliative care, findings from this study will help inform interventions that promote equitable delivery of palliative care in linguistically diverse populations.
If you agree to participate,
● you will be asked to complete a brief online survey about your clinical background, and your experiences with language discordant encounters and interpretation use (10-15 minutes)
● you may participate in an optional follow-up interview asking about when and how you use interpretation in palliative care encounters (30-60 minutes; virtual)
● interview participants will receive a gift card as a token of appreciation.
This study is open to palliative care providers of any discipline who actively provide palliative care with patients through in-person, virtual or telephone encounters and are fluent in English.
If you are interested in participating, you can start immediately by clicking on this [survey link] or using the QR code, where you will be asked to consent to participation before completing the survey questions.
Please contact Allison Kurahashi if you have any questions about this study
● Email: allison.kurahashi@sinaihealth.ca.
● Phone: (416) 586-4800 x 8016 to leave a voice message
For any questions or concerns about CPCNA and Research, contact us at cpcnaresearch@gmail.com