Nursing Research : Nursing Interventions    

Sylvie Cossette , inf., Ph.D.

Nursing research focuses on the development and evaluation of different modes of nursing interventions aiming to improve the recovery of cardiac patients or at-risk patients. 

Two research axes are currently developed. The first axis focuses on the detailed examination of of nursing interventions and possible links between these particulars of nursing and patients outcomes.   Standard and innovative technologies are used such as the numeric recognition of audio-visual characteristics of patient-nurse interactions. This axis is funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

The second axis focuses on the development and the evaluation of nursing interventions aiming to improve patients' recovery. In collaboration with clinicians, we are identifying nursing care problems that could be improved with nursing research. 

This axis is developed with the collaboration of the direction of nursing, nurses, and other clinicians and researchers at ICM. The nursing interventions theme is also developed in line with priorities of the Groupe de recherche en soins infirmiers de Montréal (GRISIM) based at the Faculty of Nursing, UdeM and the School of Nursing, McGill University.

Publications

Cossette S.,  Cara, C., Ricard, N., Pepin, J. (sous presse).  Development and psychometric evaluation of a scale to assess patient-nurse interactions with a caring worldview. International Journal of Nursing Studies.

Cossette S., Frasure-Smith, N., Lespérance, F. : Nursing approaches to reducing psychological distress in men and women recovering from myocardial infarction. International Journal of Nursing Studies 39 : 115-130, 2002.

Cossette S., Frasure-Smith, N., Lespérance, F. : Clinical implications of a reduction in psychological distress on cardiac prognosis in patients participating in a psychosocial intervention program Psychosomatic Medicine 63 : 257-266, 2001.

Loiselle, C., & Cossette S.: Cross-cultural validation of alexithymia in the U.S. and Peru: Testing of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) with constructs of patient self-disclosure and private self-consciousness. Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry 38 : 348-362, 2001. ( http://tps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/3/348 )

Clarke S.P., & Cossette S.:  Secondary analysis: Theoretical, methodological and practical considerations. The Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 32 : 109-129, 2000.