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Janet Squires

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Assistant ProfessorNursing SciencesUniversity of Ottawa

Janet Squires

Assistant Professor

Nursing Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (10 CIHR), most recently in 2026.

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Publications

173

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Research

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Knowledge Translation Context Systematic Review Behaviour Change Measurement Framework Research Use Healthcare

Latest papers

Changes in nurses' quality of work life prior to and during COVID: A repeated cross-sectional analysis.
International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026 · senior author
Cumulative sucrose exposure for repeated procedural pain in preterm neonates and neurodevelopment at 18 months of corrected age: a prospective observational longitudinal study.
BMJ paediatrics open · 2024
A longitudinal observational study on the epidemiology of painful procedures and sucrose administration in hospitalized preterm neonates.
Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2024

All 29 publications

Latest funding

Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Context based on the Implementation in Context (ICON) Framework
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$313,650
Development of a Knowledge Translation (KT) Quality Appraisal Instrument
CIHR · 2023 · Principal investigator
$267,750
The impact of the COVID-l9 Pandemic on long term care home staff and residents
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$756,890

All 26 grants and awards

29 publications.

Changes in nurses' quality of work life prior to and during COVID: A repeated cross-sectional analysis.

Hipel I, Keefe J, Duynisveld A, Song Y, Duan Y, Estabrooks CA, Norton PG, Packiam P, Squires J

International journal of nursing studies advances2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2026.100614 PMID: 42502376

Cumulative sucrose exposure for repeated procedural pain in preterm neonates and neurodevelopment at 18 months of corrected age: a prospective observational longitudinal study.

Bueno M, Ballantyne M, Campbell-Yeo M, Estabrooks C, Gibbins S, Harrison D, McNair C, Riahi S, Squires J, Synnes AR, Taddio A, Victor C, Yamada J, Stevens B

BMJ paediatrics open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002604 PMID: 38986541

A longitudinal observational study on the epidemiology of painful procedures and sucrose administration in hospitalized preterm neonates.

Bueno M, Ballantyne M, Campbell-Yeo M, Estabrooks C, Gibbins S, Harrison D, McNair C, Riahi S, Squires J, Synnes A, Taddio A, Victor C, Yamada J, Stevens B

Paediatric & neonatal pain2024

DOI: 10.1002/pne2.12114 PMID: 38504869

Changes in Health and Well-Being of Care Aides in Nursing Homes From a Pre-Pandemic Baseline in February 2020 to December 2021.

Song Y, Keefe JM, Squires J, deGraves B, Duan Y, Cummings G, Doupe MB, Hoben M, Duynisveld A, Norton P, Poss J, Estabrooks CA

Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2024

DOI: 10.1177/07334648231197074 PMID: 37647610

Burnout Among Nursing Home Care Aides and the Effects on Resident Outcomes

Gruneir A, Chamberlain SA, Jensen C, Cummings G, Hoben M, Boamah S, Bosco C, Ekhlas S, Bolt SR, Rappon T

Medical Care Research and Review202413 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/10775587231220072 PMID: W4390448400

The SITS framework: sustaining innovations in tertiary settings.

Nadalin Penno L, Graham ID, Backman C, Davies B, Squires J

Frontiers in health services2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2023.1102428 PMID: 37363733

Nursing assistants' use of best practices and pain in older adults living in nursing homes.

Song Y, Bolt S, Thorne T, Norton P, Poss J, Fu F, Squires J, Cummings G, Estabrooks CA

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2023

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18527 PMID: 37565426

The effectiveness of repeated sucrose for procedural pain in neonates in a longitudinal observational study.

Bueno M, Ballantyne M, Campbell-Yeo M, Estabrooks CA, Gibbins S, Harrison D, McNair C, Riahi S, Squires J, Synnes A, Taddio A, Victor C, Yamada J, Stevens B

Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2023

DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1110502 PMID: 36824315

Pre-COVID-19 work-life quality of regulated nurses in Canadian nursing homes.

Song Y, Thorne TE, Duan Y, Cummings G, Norton PG, Squires J, Estabrooks CA

Geriatrics & gerontology international2023

DOI: 10.1111/ggi.14536 PMID: 36627104

Identifying candidate quality indicators of tools that support the practice of knowledge translation: a scoping review protocol

Bhuiya AR, Makarski J, Hayden L, Perrier L, Munce S, Lewis I, Graham ID, Holroyd-Leduc J, Straus SE, Stelfox HT

The JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports20234 citations

DOI: 10.11124/jbies-22-00055

Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Context based on the Implementation in Context (ICON) Framework

Nominated PICIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Squires, Janet E; Grinspun, Doris R.; Hutchinson, Alison M; Lockwood, Craig

Keywords: Context; Healthcare; Knowledge Mobilization; Measurement

$313,650

Development of a Knowledge Translation (KT) Quality Appraisal Instrument

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kastner, Monika; Squires, Janet E

Keywords: Delphi Study; Implementation Science; Knowledge Translation; Qualitative Research; Quality Appraisal Instrument

$267,750

The impact of the COVID-l9 Pandemic on long term care home staff and residents

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

Principal investigators: Estabrooks, Carole Anne; Cummings, Greta

Keywords: Aging; Applied Health Services Research; End Of Life; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Quality Improvement

$756,890

Advancing the Science of Knowledge Translation: Measuring Context

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Squires, Janet E; Fairclough, Lee; Hutchinson, Alison M

Keywords: Context; Implementation; Knowledge Translation; Measurement; Systematic Review

$371,025

Exploring New Graduate Nurses' Transition into Critical Care Nursing Practice

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vanderspank, Brandi L; Carlson, Stephanie; Crowe, Sarah; Lalonde, Michelle M; Vandyk, Amanda

Keywords: Critical Care; Critical Care Nursing Practice; Emergency Department; Intensive Care Unit; New Graduate Nurses; Transition To Practice

$180,000

De-implementing low value care: a research program of the Choosing Wisely Canada Implementation Research Network

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Levinson, Wendy; Sikorski, Todd; Bhatia, Rajan S; Dowling, Shawn K; Hall, Amanda M; Parfrey, Patrick S; Presseau, Justin; Taljaard, Monica

Keywords: Choosing Wisely; Cluster Randomised Trials; Health Professional Behaviour Change; Implementation Science; Innovative Clinical Trials; Low Back Pain; Low-Value Care; Patient Engagement; Pragmatic Trials; Pre-Operative Testing

$1,500,000

Using 'brain hacks' for multiple health behaviour change: Planning the first-in-Canada evaluation of implementation intentions at scale

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Presseau, Justin; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Squires, Janet E

Keywords: Behaviour Change; Behavioural Medicine; Health Psychology; Implementation Intentions; Intention-Behaviour Gap; Public Health; Social Sciences

$20,000

SUSTAINMENT, SUSTAINABILITY, AND SPREAD STUDY (SSASSy): An Exploratory Study of Factors that Contribute to the Sustainment, Sustainability & Spread of a Complex Quality Improvement Intervention in Canadian Nursing Homes

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Berta, Whitney B; Estabrooks, Carole Anne; Wagg, Adrian S

Keywords: Evidence-Base Care Practice; Long Term Care, Nursing Homes; Quality Improvement; Resident Outcomes; Staff Outcomes; Sustainability,Sustained Practice

$967,724

SPOR Evidence Alliance

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Operating Grant: SPOR - Guidelines and Systematic Reviews

Principal investigators: Tricco, Andrea C; Abbott, John G; Barker, Kim; Beben, Nicole; Clifford, Tammy J; Gall Casey, Carolyn; Hayes, Anne; Proctor, Andrea; Teare, Gary F; Abou-Setta, Ahmed M; Clement, Fiona Mary; Colquhoun, Heather; Curran, Janet; Godfrey, Christina M; Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee; LeBlanc, Annie; Li, Linda C; Moffitt, Pertice M; Moher, David; Straus, Sharon E

Keywords: Capacity-Building; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Dissemination; Implementation; Knowledge Synthesis; Knowledge Translation; Mentorship; Patient Engagement; Patient-Oriented Research; Systematic Reviews

$4,996,890

Transforming the practice of KT: Embedding gender

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Team Grant: Impact of Gender on Knowledge Translation Interventions

Principal investigators: Straus, Sharon E; Moore, Julia E

Keywords: Frameworks; Gender; Implementation; Intersectionality; Knowledge Translation; Kt Interventions; Training; Usability Testing

$448,982

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Janet Squires

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Changes in nurses' quality of work life prior to and during COVID: A repeated cross-sectional analysis.

Cumulative sucrose exposure for repeated procedural pain in preterm neonates and neurodevelopment at 18 months of corrected age: a prospective observational longitudinal study.

A longitudinal observational study on the epidemiology of painful procedures and sucrose administration in hospitalized preterm neonates.

Changes in Health and Well-Being of Care Aides in Nursing Homes From a Pre-Pandemic Baseline in February 2020 to December 2021.

Burnout Among Nursing Home Care Aides and the Effects on Resident Outcomes

The SITS framework: sustaining innovations in tertiary settings.

Nursing assistants' use of best practices and pain in older adults living in nursing homes.

The effectiveness of repeated sucrose for procedural pain in neonates in a longitudinal observational study.

Pre-COVID-19 work-life quality of regulated nurses in Canadian nursing homes.

Identifying candidate quality indicators of tools that support the practice of knowledge translation: a scoping review protocol

Frequent collaborators

Denise Harrison

Justin Presseau

Bonnie Stevens

Carole Estabrooks

Greta Cummings

Marsha Campbell-Yeo

Chantal Backman

Anna Taddio

Yinfei Duan

Mariana Bueno

Amanda Vandyk

Matthias Hoben

Marie-Claude Tremblay

Matthias Hoben

Wendy Gifford

Jean Jacob

Sarah Munce

Christine Fahim

Noah Ivers

Valeria Rac

Janice Keefe

Souraya Sidani

Cynthia Lokker

Reem Adel Mustafa

Amit Garg

Philip Devereaux

Maureen Dobbins

Sheila Boamah

Michael Walsh

Laura Gregor

Jeremy Grimshaw

Adrian Wagg

Monica Taljaard

Alan Forster

Sanjay Pandeya

Andy Willan