Moving Palliative and End-of-life Care Forward

May 17-21, 2010
Tory Building TB 95
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sharon Kaasalainen, BSc (Nursing), MS (Nursing), PhD (Clinical Health Sciences)

Assistant Professor - McMaster University School of Nursing, and Associate member of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster.

She teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs, and is a member of the Graduate Program Curriculum Innovation Committee. Her top three research interests are pain management in long-term care, medication use in older adults, and advanced practice nursing roles in long-term care. She is also involved in a funded research project on medication management for older adults with dementia.

Topic:

• A report of a recently completed study of nurse case/care managers in Ontario with a contrast between rural and urban roles in relation to palliative/end-of-life care