Collaborators and Partners
CPCNA believes in strength in numbers. We are proud to collaborate with and support the work of our partners. These relationships support advocacy for equitable access for all persons living in Canada to quality palliative care and education for nurses providing that care.
CPCNA Partners with the Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics Hub (PCNE)
The CPCNA - PCNE Connection
All CPCNA members are welcome to join PCNE; The Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics hub provides leadership, mentorship, and support for investigators, trainees, and clinicians pursuing research in palliative care and/or nursing ethics. Together, hub members form a community of practice, whose scholarly activities are organized around three specific themes; learn more here and join the hub!
A Research Hub of the Center of Research on Health and Nursing, in partnership with the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Nurses Association. The Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics hub provides leadership, mentorship, and support for investigators, trainees, and clinicians pursuing research in palliative care and/or nursing ethics. Together, hub members form a community of practice, whose scholarly activities are organized around three specific themes
Qualitative Nursing Research
Hub members believe in the epistemological value of narrative data as a crucial source of knowledge for nursing practice. Research studies within the Palliative Care and Nursing Ethics hub therefore reflect a variety of qualitative methodological designs, including diverse forms of ethnography, grounded theory, and interpretive description. The hub is therefore also a place for advanced study of qualitative approaches in nursing research.
Palliative approaches in diverse contexts
Hub members understand that palliative care is not a place, but a philosophy. We further understand the relevance and importance of this philosophy wherever people are living and dying, usually outside of designated palliative care settings. Therefore, while some of our projects study issues within these designated settings, much of our work takes place outside of them. Current and past projects include studies of nurses’ palliative and end-of-life care practices in intensive care, in the operating room, in acute medicine, in forensic psychiatry, in neurology, and in prison.
Nursing Ethics
Hub members are interested in the ethical issues inherent in situations of serious and chronic illness, social vulnerability, aging, frailty, as well as in death, dying and bereavement. By investigating how everyday relationships between patients, families, nurses, and the wider healthcare system influence peoples’ moral experiences of health and care, we aspire to advance theoretical, conceptual, and empirical knowledge in nursing ethics. Hub members study a variety of frameworks and approaches to support this work, such as relational ethics, narrative ethics, and feminist ethics.
