RN
The University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
Heather Hartley, MScN, RN, is a profession practice specialist at Quinte Healthcare Corp. In her clinical practice at Hamilton General Hospital, she was exposed to the destabilizing effects that unexpected patient deaths had on members of the interprofessional team. In response, she initiated a research project, developing a technical report designed to guide staff in situations of death and organ recovery. This research lead her to pursue a Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Ottawa where she explored interdisciplinary narratives of caring for patients that died intraoperatively. Her work brings attention to this unexplored practice phenomenon and the experiences of clinicians living the death of their patients in perioperative culture. Heather's research was propelled forward largely in part to support offered by UOttawa, the Registered Nurses' Foundation of Ontario, and the RNAO Nursing Research Interest Group. In spring 2018, she travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana, to present her research findings, entitled 'Intraoperative death: The untold stories of perioperative teams' at the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2018. No conflict.
Sunday, April 7
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Sunday, April 7
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM