"Completing the Circle: End of Life Health Care with Aboriginal Families"
video, research project and series of documentaries
This was an academic research project headed up by Dr. Mary Hampton of Luther College and Dr. Angelina Baydala of the Psychology Department at the University of Regina. I was a consultant on the initial phase and then became a co-applicant on the second phase application in 2006 with its successful application to the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR). Completing the Circle: End of Life Health Care with Aboriginal Families with Dr. Hampton as the principle researcher. We a renewal grant in 2011 and as part of that renewal we held a conference (Canadian Aboriginal End of Life and Cancer Care Research Network Workshop) and create a documentary around that conference which would become a guide to others researching into Aboriginal health care. My involvement in this research also led the team, including me, to become full members of the University of Regina/University of Saskatchewan combined Quality End of Life Care Research Group.
I presented a paper on my role at the Knowledge Translation Workshop held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on August 22, 2006.
I was co-author on two peer reviewed papers published as part of this project:
2011 Sharing Stories through Video: Aboriginal Elders Speak About End of Life, co-author, Hampton, Saul, Bourassa, Goodwill, McKenna, Mckay-McNabb, Baydala. Innovations in Knowledge Translation: the SPHERU KT Casebook, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, Ed. Juanita Bacsu and Fleur Macqueen Smith, pages 19-22.
2011 Seven Years of Completing the Circle: End-of-Life Care With Aboriginal Families, co-author, Hampton, Baydala, Bourassa, McKenna, Saul, McKay-McNabb, Goodwill, Clark, Christiansen, CJNR, McGill University School of Nursing, Volume 43, No. 3, pages 119-125.