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Publications

Patient and Family Experience

• Brajtman, S.  (in press). A Journey of Transitions: Families Facing Terminal Illness. Chapter pour livre Penser la Famille et les Transitions de Vie, Repenser les Politiques  publiques.
• Brajtman,S. (2003).  The impact on the family of terminal restlessness and its management. Palliative Medicine, 17, 454-460.
• Brajtman,S. (2005). Helping the family through the experience of terminal restlessness.  Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 7 (2), 1-9.
  Jones, J. M., McPherson, C. J., Rodin, G., Zimmermann, C., Le, L.W., & Cohen, S. R. (in press). Assessing agreement between terminally ill cancer patients' reports of their quality of life with family caregiver and palliative care physician proxy ratings. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
• Kilgour, K., Fothergill Bourbonnais, F., McPherson, C. (2010). Informal caregiver’s transitional experience of admitting a family member from home to the palliative care unit. Journal of Palliative Care, 26(3), 216.
• Lobchuk, M. M., & McClement, S. E., McPherson, C. J. & Cheang, M. (in press). Impact of patient smoking behavior on empathic helping by family caregivers in lung cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum.
• Lobchuk, M. M., McPherson, C. J., McClement, S. E. & Cheang, M. (in press). A comparison of patient and family caregiver perceived control over lung cancer. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Lobchuk, M.M., Murdoch, T., McClement, S.E., & McPherson, C. (2008). A dyadic affair: Who's to blame for causing and controlling the patient's lung cancer? Cancer Nursing, 31(6): 435-443.
• McPherson, C.J., Wilson, K.G., Lobchuk, M.M., & Brajtman, S. (2007). Self-perceived burden to others: Patient and family caregiver correlates. Journal of Palliative Care, 23(3), 135-142.
  McPherson, C.J., Wilson, K.G., Murray, M.A. (2007). Patients’ feelings of being a burden to others at the end of life: A systematic review. Palliative Medicine, 21, 115-128.
• McPherson, C.J., Wilson, K.G., Murray, M.A. (2007). Feeling like a burden: exploring the perspectives of patients at the end of life, Social Science and Medicine, 64, 417-427.
  Murray, MA, O’Connor, A., Fiset, V. and Viola, R. (2003).  Women’s decision-making at the end-of-life. Journal of Palliative Care, 19(3), 176-184.
• Perrault, A. & Fothergill-Bourbonnais, F. (2005). The experience of suffering as lived by women with breast cancer. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 11(10), 512-519.
• Perrault, A., Fothergill-Bourbonnais, F. & Bouvette, M. (2004). The experience of family members caring for a dying loved one. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 10(3), 133-143.
• Thompson, G., Chochinov, H. M., Wilson, K. G., McPherson, C. J., Graham, M., Allard, P., et al. (2009). Prognostic acceptance and the well-being of patients receiving palliative care for cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 27(34), 5757-5762.
• Wilson, K.G., Chochinov, H.M., McPherson, C.J., Graham, M., Allard, P., Chary, S., Gagnon, P.R., Macmillan, K., De Luca, M., O’Shea, F., Kuhl, D., Fainsinger, R.L., Karam, A.M., & Clinch, J.J. (2007). Desire for Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide in Palliative Cancer Care. Health Psychology, 26(3),314-323.
• Wilson, K. G., Chochinov, H. M., McPherson, C. J., LeMay, K., Allard, P., Chary, S., et al. (2007). Suffering with advanced cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25(13), 1691-1697.
• Wilson, K.G., Curran, D., & McPherson, C.J. (2005). A burden to others: A common source of distress for the terminally ill. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 34, 115-123.

Pain and Symptom Management

• Addington-Hall, J., McPherson, C. (2001). After-death interviews with surrogates/bereaved family members: Some issues of validity. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 22(3), 784-790.
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  Brajtman, S., Wright, D., Hogan, D., Allard, P., Bruto, V., Burne, D., Gage, L., Gagnon,          P., Sadowski, C., Helsdingen, S., & Wilson, K. (2011).   Developing guidelines for  the assessment and treatment of delirium in older adults at the end of life. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 14(2), 40-50.
  
• Brajtman,S., Higuchi, K., McPherson, C. (2006). Caring for patients with terminal delirium: Palliative care unit and palliative home care nurses’ experiences. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 12(4), 150-156.
  
• Brajtman,S. (2005). Challenges in the management of terminal restlessness: Perspectives of a multidisciplinary palliative care team. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 11 (4), 170-178.
  
• Brajtman,S., Azoulay, D., Gassner, R., & Yeheskel, M. (2001). Malignant brain tumours and terminal care. European Journal of Palliative Care, 1, 16-19.
  
• Fothergill Bourbonnais, F., Perrault, A., & Bouvette, M.(2004). Introduction of a pain and symptom assessment tool in the clinical setting: Lessons learned. Journal of Nursing Management, 12, 194-200.
• McPherson, C.J., Wilson, K.G., Lobchuk, M.M., & Brajtman, S. (2008). Family caregivers' assessment of symptoms in patients with advanced cancer: Reliability and factors affecting accuracy. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, 35(1), 70-82.
  
• McPherson, C.J. & Addington-Hall, J.M. (2004). Evaluating palliative care: Bereaved family members’ evaluations of patients’ pain, anxiety and depression. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 28(2), 104-114
  
• McPherson, C.J. & Addington-Hall, J.M. (2004). How do proxies' perceptions of patients' pain, anxiety and depression change during the bereavement period? Journal of Palliative Care, 20(1), 12-19.
• McPherson, C.J. & Addington-Hall, J.M. (2003). Judging the quality of care at the end of life: Can proxies provide reliable information? Social Science and Medicine, 56(1), 95-109.

Nursing Education and Practice

• Brajtman, S. (in press). With caring, compassion, and competence: Nurses confront dying and death. In S. Kreitler (Ed.). Confronting dying and death: A guide for professional helpers.
• Brajtman, S., Higuchi, K., Murray, M. (2009).  Developing meaningful learning             experiences in palliative care nursing education. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 15(7), 327-331.
  
• Brajtman, S. Fothergill- Bourbonnais, F., Alain, D., Fist, V. (2009). Survey of educators’ end-of-life care learning needs in a Canadian baccalaureate nursing program.  International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 15(5), 233-241.
  
• Brajtman,S., Fothergill – Bourbonnais, F., Casey, A., Alain, D., Fiset, V. (2007). Providing direction for change:  Assessing Canadian nursing students’ learning needs. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 13(5), 213-221.
  
• Stacey, D., Fiset, V., Ellis, J., & Fothergill Bourbonnais, F. (2008). The supportive care framework applied to curriculum development and delivery. In M.I. Fitch (Ed). Supportive care framework: A foundation for person centered care (pp.36-39). Pembrooke, Ontario: Pappin Communication.
  
• Vanderspank B., Fothergill-Bourbonnais, F., Brajtman, S., Gagnon, P. (in press).                 Caring for Patients and Families at End-of-Life: The Experiences of   Intensive Care Nurses Withdrawing Life Sustaining Treatment. 

        
Interprofessional Education and Practice

• Brajtman, S., Hall, P. Barnes, P. (2009). Enhancing Interprofessional Education in End-of-Life Care: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Death and Dying in Literature.  Journal of Palliative Care, 25(2), 125-131.
• Brajtman,S., Hall, P., Weaver, L., Higuchi, K., Allard, P., Mullins, D. (2008). An interprofessional educational intervention on delirium for health care teams: Providing opportunities to enhance collaboration. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22(6), 658-660.
• Hall, P., weaver, L., Fothergill Bourbonnais, F., Amos, S., Whiting, N., Barnes, P., & Legault, F. (2006). Interprofessional education through popular literature: A palliative care model. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 20(1), 51-59.
  
• Herbert, C. P., Bainbridge, L., Bickford, J., Baptiste, S., Brajtman, S., Dryden, T., Hall, P., Risdon, C., Solomon, P. (2007). Factors that influence health professionals’ engagement in collaborative practice. Canadian Family Physician, 53, 1318-1325.
• Weaver, L., McMurtry, A., Conklin, J., Brajtman, S., Hall, P.  (2011). Harnessing                 Complexity Science for Interprofessional Education Development: A Case Example. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education,  2(1), 1- 21.

Ethics

• Wright, D., Brajtman, S. (2011). Relational and embodied knowing: using narrative to situate nursing ethics within the interprofessional care team. Nursing Ethics, 18 (1), 20-30.
  
• Wright, D., Brajtman, S., Bitzas, V. (2009). Human relationships at the end-of-life: an  ethical ontology for practice. The Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 11(4), 219-227.

 Additional publications

• Allard, P., Brajtman,S., Brazil, K., Guiguis-Younger, Kaasalainen, S., M., & Kelly, M.L. et al (2007).  End-of- life care for seniors: Contributions from a new emerging team. Journal of Palliative Care, 23(3), 133-134.
  
• Allard, P., Brajtman, S. Brazil, K., Guirguis-Younger, M., Legault, F., McPherson, C., Kelly, M.L., Wilson, K., Bond, J., Chambers, L., Kozak, J., MacLean, M., Ross, M.M., Gagnon, P. (2003). Optimizing Research on End of Life Care for Seniors. Geriatrics Today, 6(3), 173-176.
  
• McPherson, C.J., Higginson, I.J., Hearn, J. (2001). Effective methods of giving information in cancer: A systematic literature review of randomized control trials. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 23(3), 227-234.
• Kilgour, K. (in press). Effective Documentation.  In Gregory, D., Raymond-Seniuk, C., & Patrick, L. (Eds.), Fundamentals: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Canadian Nursing (First Edition). Philadelphia, PA, USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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