Wendy Peterson RN, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Nursing Research Associate, Community Health Research Unit

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Wendy Peterson RN, PhDAssistant Professor,
School of NursingResearch Associate, Community
Health Research Unit
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Teaching 2006-2007

• Second year BScN program
• NSG 2301 Foundations of Family Health
• NSG 2302 Theoretical Perspectives of Family
  Nursing Interventions
• Graduate committee member

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Research Interests

• Improving maternal-child health services for
  vulnerable populations
• Adolescent mothers, urban poor, new immigrant
  aboriginal families
• Acute care, primary care, community-based
  public health services
• Collaboration between providers sectors
• Mixed methods
• Focus on qualitative survey methodologies

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Current Research

• Pregnant and parenting youth project
• Peterson W, Moreau D, Edwards N Montgomery P
• Funded by Nancy Edwards CHSRF/CIHR Chair pilot
  funds
• To identify gaps in the existing system of
  resources for pregnant parenting youth.
• Data analysis phase
• Integrating services for vulnerable families
  project
• Partnership Community Health Resource Centres,
  Ottawa Public Health Community Health Research
  Unit.
• To evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-level
  intervention designed to improve collaboration
  between primary care and public health
  maternal-child services child outcomes.

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Current Research

• Improving inpatient care for adolescent mothers
• Partnership with TOH
• Building on thesis findings
• Proposal development stage
• Other projects
• (PI D. Smith) Concept Paper on Supporting Best
  Practices in Public Health and Primary Care with
  Rural and Isolated First Nations Communities
• (PI A. Lang) Tailoring RNAO BPGs to a
  Bereavement Context

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Its not easy its a big road to travel
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Contact information

• Wendy Peterson RN, PhD
• Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• University of Ottawa
• RGN 3249A
• 613-562-5800 ext. 8207
• wendy.peterson_at_uottawa.ca