Tina is an Adult Nurse Practitioner in the Transitional Care Unit at St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Hospital .
Education
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Post Master Program, University of Toronto , 2002
- MScN, University of Windsor , 2001
- BScN, University of Windsor , 1998
- Certified Nurse in Critical Care ( Canada ) 1998-2012
- Nursing Diploma, Lambton College , 1981
Academic Affiliations
Tina is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at the University of Western Ontario. She has been invited as a guest lecturer to the School of Nursing at the University of Toronto.
Tina has been widely involved in the education of Undergraduate, Graduate, Nurse Practitioner, and Medical students. A sampling of her presentations include:
- "In the Palm of Your Hand: PDAs, Smartphones & Healthcare Practice"
- "Keeping the Patient Whole: NP led approach to long stay patients in a Canadian Cardiovascular ICU"
- "“Sandbox Etiquette: Working in a Collaborative Team”
- “Knot so Fast: Minimizing Patient Restraint”
- “I Can See Clearly Now: the Basics of Reading Xrays”
- “When Cardiac Surgery Goes Wrong: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Care”
- “Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Role Implementation: Transitions, Reflections, Dimensions”
- “Implementing a Nurse Practitioner role in a Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit”
Tina's computer knowledge and electronic patient record experience has enabled her to develop PDA workshops for a variety of health care professionals.
Interests/Research Interests
Tina's scholarly and research interests include: interprofessional care, the hospital-based NP role, understanding/facilitating nurse decision-making, pain management, and promoting computers in providing evidence-based practice. Tina is published in journals such as Dynamics of Critical Care, Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, Health Care Quarterly, Canadian Nurse, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, as well as a book chapter in Critical Care Nursing (Morton & Fontaine).
Current Activities/Future Plans
Currently Tina is president of the Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario. In addition she is co-investigator of a MOHLTC funded, multisite study of hospital-based nurse practitioners-"Integration of Specialty Nurse Practitioners into the Ontario Health Care System". She remains active in several scholarly and professional activities and publication efforts are geared toward the nurse practitioner movement in Ontario. Provincially, she is working with the Ministry of Health & Long Term Care on the Physician Assistant Implementation Steering Committee. Locally she is active in citywide initiatives that include the London Region Advanced Practice Nurses group. She also remains involved with the London Electronic Patient Record Initiative.
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