Research
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Latest papers
Compassionate nursing in challenging contexts: The importance of judgments.
Nursing ethics · 2025 · senior author
Developing robust systems for Track 2 MAID in Canada: A qualitative study.
Palliative care and social practice · 2025
Experiences of healthcare providers with eligible patients' loss of decision-making capacity while awaiting medical assistance in dying.
Palliative care and social practice · 2022 · first author
Latest funding
- $6,000
Health Equity in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying
CIHR · 2026 · Supervisor
Building Community Capacity to Support Patients and Families Considering and Receiving Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
HRBC · 2025 · Principal investigator
Building a Compassionate Community: A Patient-Oriented Approach for Persons Seeking Medical Assistance in Dying
HRBC · 2024 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Compassionate nursing in challenging contexts: The importance of judgments.
Peter E, Mohammed S, Variath C
Developing robust systems for Track 2 MAID in Canada: A qualitative study.
Pesut B, Thorne S, Brad-Richards L, Brown J, Campbell J, Hall M, Plewes L, Robertson D, Sharp H, Stajduhar K, Variath C, Wiebe G
Experiences of healthcare providers with eligible patients' loss of decision-making capacity while awaiting medical assistance in dying.
Variath C, Peter E, Cranley L, Godkin D
Health Equity in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying
Principal investigators: Blackman, Yacub
Keywords: Community-Based Resources; Health Inequities; Maid; Palliative Care
Building Community Capacity to Support Patients and Families Considering and Receiving Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
Principal investigators: Variath, Caroline
Building a Compassionate Community: A Patient-Oriented Approach for Persons Seeking Medical Assistance in Dying
Principal investigators: Variath, Caroline
Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable: Healthcare provider experiences
Principal investigators: Pesut, Barbara K; Verigin, Lori; Thorne, Sally E
Keywords: Euthanasia; Healthcare Providers; Medical Assistance In Dying; Quality Care; Suffering
Toward Effective Policy and Clinical Care in the Context of Track 2 MAID in Canada
Principal investigators: Pesut, Barbara K; Mckenzie, Michael R; Plewes, Laurel; Thorne, Sally E
Keywords: Best Practice; Health Care Provider Well-Being/Support/Retention; Lived Experience; Medical Assistance In Dying; Mental Illness As Sole Underlying Medical Condition; Policy; Track 2
A Patient-Oriented Research Approach to Improve Access to and Experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons Whose Death is not Reasonably Foreseeable
Principal investigators: Variath, Caroline
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Sally Thorne and Barbara Pesut: 19 shared papers
- Elizabeth Peter and Shan Mohammed: 16 shared papers
- Kelli Stajduhar and Sally Thorne: 8 shared papers
- Kelli Stajduhar and Barbara Pesut: 8 shared papers
- Lisa Cranley and Elizabeth Peter: 3 shared papers
- Lisa Cranley and Dianne Godkin: 3 shared papers
- Elizabeth Peter and Dianne Godkin: 3 shared papers
- Kelli Stajduhar and Janine Brown: 2 shared papers
- Barbara Pesut and Janine Brown: 2 shared papers
- Elizabeth Peter and Caroline Variath: 2 shared papers
- Kelli Stajduhar and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Sally Thorne and Janine Brown: 1 shared paper
- Sally Thorne and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Barbara Pesut and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Lisa Cranley and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Dianne Godkin and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Shan Mohammed and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- Janine Brown and Caroline Variath: 1 shared paper
- School of Nursing
- Nursing
- Canada
- MacIsaac School of Nursing
- Other
Co-authors at Vancouver Island University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Elizabeth Peter
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Sally Thorne
MacIsaac School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Barbara Pesut
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Lisa Cranley
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Dianne Godkin
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Shan Mohammed
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kelli Stajduhar
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Janine Brown
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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