Co-Investigator, University of Western Ontario

Since 1992 Dr. Laschinger has been Principal Investigator of a program of research designed to investigate the impact of nursing work environments on nurses’ empowerment for professional practice, their health and well-being, and the role of leadership in creating empowering working conditions. A major focus of Dr. Laschinger’s research is examining the link between nursing work environments and nurse and client outcomes. The results of this research have been translated into several policy documents, including the Magnet Hospital Accreditation Program in the USA. She has served on numerous advisory groups at the provincial and federal levels in relation to healthy workplace issues and is currently a Healthy Workplace Champion for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Her current projects as Principal Investigator include two CIHR studies (1) testing a workplace civility intervention in Ontario and Nova Scotia hospital settings, (2) a national study of nurses’ career aspirations to management positions across the country, and a SSHRC funded longitudinal study of new graduate nurses’ workplace bullying in Ontario hospitals. In 2009, she was awarded the Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Health Human Resources Optimization and will lead a 5 year program of research focusing on factors influencing new graduate nurses’ successful transition to practice and workplace violence

hkl@uwo.ca