Carole-Lynne
LeNavenec is an Associate Professor (with tenure since
1989) in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary,
specializing in Family and Community Mental Health
Nursing, Psychogeriatric Nursing, Prison Health Nursing,
and Nursing Scholarship. Prior
to 1981, she was a public health nurse on a Psychogeriatric unit
and with community health agencies. Since 1981, she has
been employed by the University of Calgary and has developed
teaching, research, and service responsibilities in the areas
of Psychiatric-Mental Health/Family/and Community Mental Health
Nursing education and practice. Teaching interest areas
focus on undergraduate education in beginning and advanced theory
and practice pertaining to health promotion and quality of life
enhancement with families experiencing chronic illness (e.g.,
COPD, dementia, traumatic brain injury); nursing interventions
that incorporate the Creative Arts therapies (e.g., music and
sound), and the use of the CFAM and the chronic illness trajectory
framework in nursing practice. In addition to undergraduate
teaching, she has taught N.731.06: PhD Dissertation Seminar #2. She
also supervises a number of MN students (in both the Theses and
Clinical streams); served as a supervisor for 1 PhD student in
Education (who convocated in June 2003); Committee Member for
Ph.D. student who convocated in Fall 2000 (Faculty of Social
Work: Housing and Support Needs for People with Chronic Mental
Illness); and as an External Examiner for one Ph.D. student in
Nursing (Community Development and Older People). Currently
she is a supervisor for 1 Ph.D. student in Nursing. She
has also been involved in designing new courses for www delivery,
using WebCT and Blackboard, and currently teaches two courses
on the WWW (N.411 & N.511 & previously in N542). In
March 2003 she was selected as an Adjunct Associate
Professor - Nursing, University of Alberta.
Scholarly
activities at present include involvement in 3 funded projects,
and two others for which funding is being sought, related
to identification of indicators of quality of care and
outcome indicators of quality of life changes for people
experiencing a chronic illness. Past
publications (Chapters in books, 4 books, numerous Abstracts
in International/National Conference Proceedings, and several
articles) have focused primarily on Dementia and the family:
Implications for care provision and health policy development. In
1997, she received the American Journal of Nursing Best Book
of the Year Award - Gerontological Nursing for a book (which
was based on her doctoral dissertation) entitled 'One day at
a time: How families manage the experience of dementia'
(Westport, CO: Greenwood).
Service
involvement includes numerous activities at the faculty,
university and community levels. Faculty and university
service relates primarily to committee responsibilities,
while community involvements include professional associations,
conference planning, Research Committees, and Board activities.
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