Resume

• 2005

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Dissertation: Tomorrow’s Godly Americans: Citizenship Education and National Identity in Conservative Christian Homeschools

  Sociology

  York University

• 2003

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  MRP: Educational Tracking Curricula: Misapplied Theory or Intrinsically Flawed?

  Sociology

  McGill University

  University Teaching Practicum (UPT)

  Center for Teaching and Learning (CST) York University

  Toronto

  Ontario

• 2000

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Sociology and Anthropology

  McGill University

• 1997

  College Education Diploma

  Social Sciences

  Marianopolis College

• As a member of the Organizing Committee

  I aided in organizing this annual Youth Outreach event

  aimed at exposing children and youth to science and at sparking their interest in embarking on a career in science and technology. As a volunteer

  I organized and facilitated an interactive learning booth at the event

  entitled \"Age

  It's just a Number.\" The booth invited students and their families to reflect on their knowledge and assumptions about aging

  and consider how media such as cartoons

  magazines

  and birthday cards portray aging. The learning booth also included empathy-building simulations that allowed young people and their families to experience some of the physiological and sensory changes associated with aging.

  Science Rendezvous & York University Faculty Science

  Organizer and Facilitator

  Held workshops entitled \"Combating Ageism\" for elementary school youth. Students had the opportunity to challenge myths and stereotypes about older people

  discover cross-cultural perspectives on aging

  and learn about ageism’s cost to society. The workshop also introduced elementary students to the physiological and social aspects of aging

  with a particular emphasis on raising critical awareness around the negative effects of ageism. The workshop also incorporated empathy-building simulations.

  York-TD Community Engagement Centre Outreach ‘Combating Ageism’ workshop

  Lecturing

  Social Inequality

  Ethnography

  Sociology of Religion

  Quantitative Research

  Public Speaking

  Survey Research

  Sociology of Education

  Undergraduate Teaching

  Political Sociology

  SPSS

  University Teaching

  NVivo

  Health Services Research

  Teaching

  Participant Observation

  Research

  Social Stratification

  Theory

  Qualitative Research

  A Multi-Method Study of the Geriatric Learning Needs of Acute Care Hospital Nurses in Ontario

  Canada

  Hugh McCague

  Souraya Sidani

  Malini Persaud

  Mary T. Fox

  Research in Nursing and Health

  Wiley Periodicals

  \nKeywords: continuing education; aging; needs assessment; gerontology; functional ability\n\nAbstract\n\nOlder people are at risk of experiencing functional decline and related complications during hospitalization. In countries with projected increases in age demographics

  preventing these adverse consequences is a priority. Because most Canadian nurses have received little geriatrics content in their basic education

  understanding their learning needs is fundamental to preparing them to respond to this priority. This two-phased multi-method study identified the geriatrics learning needs and strategies to address the learning needs of acute care registered nurses (RNs) and registered practical nurses (RPNs) in the province of Ontario

  Canada. In Phase I

  a survey that included a geriatric nursing knowledge scale was completed by a random sample of 2005 Ontario RNs and RPNs. Average scores on the geriatric nursing knowledge scale were in the “neither good nor bad” range

  with RNs demonstrating slightly higher scores than RPNs. In Phase II

  33 RN and 24 RPN survey respondents participated in 13 focus group interviews to help confirm and expand survey findings. In thematic analysis

  three major themes were identified that were the same in RNs and RPNs: (a) geriatric nursing is generally regarded as simple and custodial

  (b) older people's care is more complex than is generally appreciated

  and (c) in the current context

  older people's care is best learned experientially and in brief on-site educational sessions. Healthcare providers

  policy-makers

  and educators can use the findings to develop educational initiatives to prepare RNs and RPNs to respond to the needs of an aging hospital population. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals

  Inc.\n

  A Multi-Method Study of the Geriatric Learning Needs of Acute Care Hospital Nurses in Ontario

  Canada

  Hugh McCague

  ABSTRACT\n\nPURPOSE:\nTo test the relationships between the geriatric practice environment

  geriatric nursing practice

  and overall quality of care for older adults and their families as reported by nurses working in hospitals

  while controlling for nurse and hospital characteristics.\n\nDESIGN:\nA cross-sectional tailored survey design was employed. A questionnaire was mailed to a randomly selected sample of nurses whose primary practice area was medicine

  surgery

  geriatrics

  emergency

  or critical care in acute care hospitals in Ontario

  Canada.\n\nMETHODS:\nParticipants (N = 2

  005) working in 148 hospitals responded to validated measures of the geriatric practice environment

  geriatric nursing practice

  overall quality of care for older adults and their families

  and nurse and hospital characteristics. The relationships were tested using structural equation modeling.\n\nFINDINGS:\nControlling for nurse and hospital characteristics

  the geriatric practice environment had a statistically significant positive relationship of large magnitude with both geriatric nursing practice (β = 0.52) and overall quality of care (β = 0.92); however

  the indirect relationship between the geriatric practice environment and overall quality of care

  mediated by geriatric nursing practice

  was not significant (β = -0.02). Final model fit was acceptable

  with the root mean square error of approximation = 0.07

  comparative fit index = 0.93

  and Tucker-Lewis Index = 0.87.\n\nCONCLUSIONS:\nA strong geriatric practice environment positively and directly influences geriatric nursing practice and overall quality of care for older adults and their families but does not appear to influence overall quality of care indirectly through geriatric nursing practice.\n\nCLINICAL RELEVANCE:\nThe results can be used as the basis for promoting practice environments that support overall quality of care and geriatric nursing practice in acute care hospitals.

  The Relationships Between the Geriatric Practice Environment

  Nursing Practice

  and the Quality of Hospitalized Older Adults’ Care

  Souraya Sidani

  Abstract\n\nBackground\n\nCultivating hospital environments that support older people’s care is a national priority. Evidence on geriatric nursing practice environments

  obtained from studies of registered nurses (RNs) in American teaching hospitals

  may have limited applicability to Canada

  where RNs and registered practical nurses (RPNs) care for older people in predominantly nonteaching hospitals.\nPurpose\n\nThis study describes nurses’ perceptions of the overall quality of care for older people and the geriatric nursing practice environment (geriatric resources

  interprofessional collaboration

  and organizational value of older people’s care) and examines if these perceptions differ by professional designation and hospital teaching status.\nMethods\n\nA cross-sectional survey

  using Dillman’s tailored design

  that included Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile subscales

  was completed by 2005 Ontario RNs and registered practical nurses to assess their perceptions of the quality of care and geriatric nursing practice environment.\nResults\n\nScores on the Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile subscales averaged slightly above the midpoint except for geriatric resources which was slightly below. Registered practical nurses rated the quality of care and geriatric nursing practice environment higher than RNs; no significant differences were found by hospital teaching status.\nConclusions\n\nNurses’ perceptions of older people’s care and the geriatric nursing practice environment differ by professional designation but not hospital teaching status. Teaching and nonteaching hospitals should both be targeted for geriatric nursing practice environment improvement initiatives.\nKeywords geriatric care environment

  hospital nurses

  older people

  quality of care

  Nurses’ Perspectives on the Geriatric Nursing Practice Environment and the Quality of Older People’s Care in Ontario Acute Care Hospitals

  Abstract\n\nAims\n\nTo explore nurses’ perspectives on how leaders influence function-focused care

  defined as care that preserves and restores older people's functional abilities.\nBackground\n\nHospitalised older people are at risk of functional decline. Although leaders have the potential to influence function-focused care

  few studies have explored nurses’ perspectives on how leaders influence function-focused care.\n\nMethods\n\nThirteen focus groups were held with 57 acute care nurses. Semi-structured questions prompted discussion on nurses’ perspectives

  needs and strategies to meet their needs. Data were thematically analysed.\nResults\n\nThree themes were identified: (1) the emphasis in hospitals is on moving older people quickly through the system

  not supporting their functioning; (2) leaders are generally seen as too disconnected from practice to design system efficiency initiatives that support older people's functioning and nurses’ provisioning of function-focused care; and (3) leadership strategies to better support nurses in providing function-focused care to older people in the context of system efficiency.\n\nConclusions\n\nLeaders should connect with practice to devise age-sensitive efficiency initiatives that support function-focused care. Nurses need support from leaders in four areas to provide function-focused care to older people in the current hospital context.\n\nImplications\n\nThe findings provide direction on how leaders can facilitate function-focused care in the current health-care environment emphasising system efficiency.

  Nurses’ perspectives on how operational leaders influence function-focused care for hospitalised older people

  Abstract\n\nOlder people present with complex health issues on admission to hospital and are at high risk for functional decline and related complications. Thus

  they require the services of diverse health-care professionals working in concert to support their functioning. Despite nurses' central role in caring for this patient population

  and evidence indicating that interprofessional communication is a persistent challenge for nurses in acute-care settings

  little is known about nurses' views on interprofessional communication in care preserving functioning in acutely admitted older people. To fill this knowledge gap

  we gathered acute-care staff nurses' perspectives on interprofessional communication in a function-focused

  interprofessional approach to hospital care for older adults. Thirteen focus groups were conducted with a purposeful

  criterion-based sample of 57 nurses working in acute-care hospitals. Thematic analysis revealed two overarching themes capturing nurses' perspectives on key factors shaping interprofessional communication in a function-focused interprofessional approach to care (1) context of direct communication and (2) context of indirect communication. The first theme demonstrates that nurses preferred synchronous modes of communication

  but some ascribed greater importance to unstructured forms of direct information-sharing

  while others stressed structured direct communication

  particularly interprofessional rounds. The second theme also documents divergence in nurses' views on asynchronous communication

  with some emphasizing information technology and others analog tools. Perceptions of some modes of interprofessional communication were found to vary by practice setting. Theoretical and pragmatic conclusions are drawn that can be used to optimize interprofessional communication processes supporting hospitalized older people's functioning.\n\n

  Nurses’ Perspectives on Interprofessional Communication in the Prevention of Functional Decline in Hospitalized Older People

  Abstract\n\nIntroduction Faced with costly hospital readmissions of increasingly complex patient populations

  transitional care is a priority throughout Ontario

  Canada; yet

  rural patients have significantly more hospital readmissions and emergency department visits during the first 30 days following hospitalisation than urban patients. Because transitional care (TC) was designed and evaluated with urban patients

  addressing urban-rural disparities in TC effectiveness requires increasing the alignment of TC with the needs of patients and families in rural communities and the rural nursing practice context. The study objectives are to (1) determine the perceived acceptability of evidence-based TC interventions targeting postdischarge care management to patients

  families and nurses and (2) adapt the interventions to patients’ and families’ needs and the rural nursing practice context.\n\nMethods and analysis This multimethod study has two phases. In phase I

  32–48 patients and families will rate their level of preparedness for discharge and the acceptability of evidence-based TC interventions. Participants will be engaged in semi-structured interviews about their care management needs

  their perspectives on the interventions in fitting those needs and in providing suggestions for adapting the interventions to fit their needs. TC interventions perceived as acceptable to patients and families will be examined in phase II. In phase II

  32–48 hospital and home care nurses will rate the acceptability of the interventions identified by patients and families and attend focus group discussions on the feasibility of providing the interventions. Phase I and II data will be analysed using descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis.\n\n

  Protocol of a multimethod descriptive study: adapting hospital-to-home transitional care interventions to the rural healthcare context in Ontario

  Canada

  Jeffrey I.

  Butler

  PhD

  Mobile

  Work

  Life Research Project

  York University

  Faculty of Health

  CARL Scholarly Communication Study

  York University

  Department of Sociology and Center for Support of Teaching

  Department of Sociology

  Faculty of Arts

  York University

  Transitional Labour Market Network (TLM)

  Urban Images

  Public Space and the Growth of Private Interests in Toronto

  “Immigrants in the New Economy: Precarious Employment and the Tr

  Managing the Margins: Gender

  Citizenship and the Regulation of Precarious Employment

  York University Library

  Toronto; Guelph University Library

  Guelph

  Responsibilities: \n•\tOrganizing and analyzing interview data from 29 phone interviews conducted by primary investigators on current initiatives and services related to Scholarly Communication and Open Access at universities across Canada.\n•\tProviding training on using NVivo 9 to organize and analyze qualitative data and link it to relevant academic literatures.

  Research Consultant

  CARL Scholarly Communication Study

  Supervisory Committee Member

  York University

  York University

  Faculty of Health

  Toronto

  Course Director for HH/NURS 3515

  Development of Self as Nurse: Nursing Research & Inquiry. Course focuses on qualitative and quantitative methodologies as the basis for evidence-based nursing practice.

  Course Director

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Research Associate

  York University

  Ted Rogers School of Management

  Ryerson University

  Responsibilities: \n•\tOrganizing and conducting interviews with professionals and non-professionals on smartphone use in relation to work-life balance.\n•\tAnalyzing transcribed interviews

  images

  and audio recordings using NVivo 9. \n•\tDisseminating the results of the study in scholarly journals.

  Research Assistant

  Mobile

  Work

  Life Research Project

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Responsibilities: \n•\tOrganized departmental workshops on issues tied to teaching and learning\n•\tProvided academic research

  writing & learning skills support for graduate students and junior faculty \n•\tRaised awareness of the CST teaching practicum\n•\tAttended teaching workshops organized by TDGAs in other social science disciplines

  Teaching Development Graduate Assistant (TDGA)

  Department of Sociology and Center for Support of Teaching

  Project management

  data collection

  data analysis

  and Knowledge Translation for Ministry of Health and Long Term-Care-funded project: Adapting Hospital-to-home Transitional Care Interventions to the Ontario Rural Healthcare Context

  York University

  Urban Images

  Public Space and the Growth of Private Interests in Toronto

  York University

  Responsibilities: \n•\tLocated newspaper articles and government reports on the development of the Toronto Harbour front published between 1990 and 2006.\n•\tData analysis using qualitative methods and NVivo 8.

  Research Assistant

  York University

  Responsibilities: \n•\tLocated / oversaw the acquisition of quantitative data and datasets on labour markets and workforces in Canada

  the U.S. A.

  and the EU-25. \n•\tAnalyzed quantitative data in Excel

  and SPSS.\n•\tPrepared literature reviews of extant research and summarizing trends in quantitative data.\n•\tPrepared charts and tables for inclusion in scholarly books

  peer-reviewed journals

  academic conferences and dissemination to the media.

  Research Assistant

  Managing the Margins: Gender

  Citizenship and the Regulation of Precarious Employment

  York University

  Toronto

  Canada

  - Designing and conducting face-to-face and telephone focus groups\n- Recording fieldnotes and analytical

  theoretical and methodological memos \n- Managing qualitative databases\n- Qualitative data analysis using (computer-assisted-qualitative-data-analysis in\n NVivo

  thematic analysis

  developing visual models and thematic networks) \n- Implementing strategies for rigor throughout the research process\t\n- Developing summary briefs for stakeholders\n- Posting summary briefs on selected websites for dissemination\n- Preparing manuscripts for publication in high-impact

  peer-reviewed journals\n- Preparing reports for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care\n- Preparing and delivering presentations at national and international conferences

  \t\n- Assisting with the preparation of grant applications to internal research funds and\t\t\t external funding agencies\n- Participating in the training and mentorship of graduate and undergraduate\n trainees working in Dr. Fox's program of research\n- Working in close collaboration and cooperatively with interdisciplinary \n colleagues and staff

  Post-Doctoral Fellow

  School of Nursing

  Faculty of Health

  York University

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Responsibilities: \n•\tTeaching Assistant 3rd and 4th year Sociology course on the social

  cultural & political dynamics of education \n•\tTeach tutorial classes of 25-28 students: providing lectures

  supplementary materials

  activities and discussion\n•\tSupervise student presentations and participation \n•\tGrade student assignments & provide individual student advising \n•\tDevelop accommodations for students with learning disabilities

  Teaching Assisstant: SOCI 3630 – Sociology of Education

  Department of Sociology

  Faculty of Arts

  York University

  York University and Culture of Cities Centre

  University of Toronto

  Responsibilities: \n•\tDigitally integrating quantitative datasets and qualitative interview transcripts. \n•\tTransferring demographic survey data from an SPSS Census dataset into NVivo 9 and configuring the project file so categorical respondent attributes can be used to filter queries.

  Research Consultant

  “Immigrants in the New Economy: Precarious Employment and the Tr

  Tele-commuting to the Amsterdam Area

  Netherlands

  Responsibilities: \n•\tRevised the language of academic articles prepared by non-Anglophone academics intended for publication in European and North American scholarly journals.

  Copy-Editor and Translator

  Transitional Labour Market Network (TLM)

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Project management

  data collection

  data analysis

  and Knowledge Translation for CIHR-funded project: Collaborating with healthcare providers to design an implementation plan for an evidence-based hospital to-home transitional care intervention for older adults in rural communities

  Research Associate and Project Manager

  York University

  Member

  Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)

  Member

  American Sociological Association

  Co-Chair

  York Sociology Graduate Association (YSGA)

  Co-Chair: \"Inter/National Horizons: Thinking and Acting Beyond Boundaries\". The 7th Annual York Sociology Graduate Student Conference

  York Sociology Graduate Association (YSGA)

  French

  English

  Doctoral Completion Award

  York University

  Faculty of Graduate Studies

  Research Cost Fund Award

  York University

  Faculty of Graduate studies

  Teaching and Research Fellowship

  Indonesia Social Equity Project

  Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and McGill University

  John O’Neill Award for Teaching Excellence

  York University

  Department of Sociology and the Sociology Undergraduate Student Association

  Graduate Recruitment Scholarship

  Graduate Program in Sociology

  York University

  York Graduate Scholarship

  Graduate Program in Sociology

  Faculty of Graduate Studies Research and Travel Grant

  York University

  Faculty of Graduate Studies

  Graduate Research and Travel Grant

  York Sociology Graduate Student Association

  Graduate Program in Sociology York University