Dr. Jennifer Medves
Co-Investigator, Queen’s University
Dr. Jennifer Medves is the Director of the School of Nursing and Associate Dean Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Director of the Practice and Research in Nursing (PRN) group. Dr Medves is a member of local, provincial and federal committees whose mandate is to examine maternity practice and sustain health care for women at a time when there are looming health human resource shortages. Her research program, entitled to Nursing in Healthy Rural Workplaces. There are five sectors encompassed in the program of research
- Safeguarding patients, families, and communities
- Nursing beneficence
- Interprofessional collaboration
- Best evidence for practice
- Recruitment and retention
Her teaching areas are maternal child health, philosophy of nursing science, and research methods. Recent publications include collaboration in teams to reduce the effects of pandemic influenza, evidence for practice in maternity care, and rural collaborative practice to sustain maternity practice. Dr Medves works closely with colleagues across health sciences on integrating interprofessional education and practice, and has been funded on a number of initiatives at the federal and provincial level.