International Conference and Exhibition on Nursing
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Daphney St-Germain
Associate Professor
Daphney St-Germain is a registred nurse holding a doctorate in Public Health (2007) and is an Associate Professor at Université Laval, in Nursing Faculty, in Quebec City (Canada) for more than 10 years. She is also a researcher at Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec (a physic rehabilitation center in Quebec city). She has been co-principal investigator of a few researches with Ontario Neurotrauma Rehabilitation from Toronto Rehabilitation studying spinal cord injury issues. Dr. St-Germain has obtained a certification as Patient Safety Trainer (2014) from Kingston University under the leadership of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) also, she acts as member of the Quebec Nurses Corporation’s disciplinary council. Recently, Dr. St-Germain has been chosen among national and international experts to be a member of the brand new Knowledge Translation and Implementation Science Faculty Expert headed by CPSI. This Faculty will support initiatives focusing on behavior changes helping public, healthcare providers and leaders improve effectively patient safety in Canada. According to enhance nurses’ patient safety competencies, two governmental fundings have been granted to her as principal investigator for the research: Approach to design and education of nurses in patients safety : Elaboration of a « reflexive » professional portfolio for a more effective continuity of the skills between the academic environment and the work environment.
Academic :
2002-2007 Université de Montréal – Doctorate - Ph. D., Public Health (Health services organisation)
1996-2000 Université de Montréal – Master - M. Sc., Nursing Sciences
1993-1996 Université de Montréal – Bachelor - B. Sc., Nursing Sciences
Current Researches
2017-2019 Approach to design and education of nurses in patients safety : Elaboration of a « reflexive » professional portfolio for a more effective continuity of the skills between the academic environment and the work environment -Research and Creation office of Université Laval and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (86 583$ CD) Principal investigator : Daphney St-Germain, Co-investigator : Caroline Gagnon & Lynda Bélanger.
2013-2017 Expérimentation d’une approche communicationnelle adaptée au contexte de l’immigration afin d’optimiser le développement des enfants Principal investigator : Desmarais, C., Co-investigators : Tétreault, S., St-Germain, D., Rachedi, L., St-Pierre, M.-C. funded by SSHRC. (322 802$ CD)
Interested topics
- Patient Safety
- Continuous Quality of Care Improvement
- Physic Rehabilitation Care
- Caring humanistic approach
- Design approach in nursing
- The second prize for better communication, organized jointly by the Publishing(Editions) Elsevier Masson for my intervention mentioned below: "Le modèle Caring-PPH au coeur des soins au patient et à la famille". Presented at La Rochelle (France) October 2nd 2014 at The Study Days of Rehabilitation Nurses.
- 2016-Invited Professor at Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse, France) for rehabilitation nurses
International collaborations
- 2017- External evaluator of Swiss scientific research national funding (PePA)
- 2014- International Editorial reviewer board of Journal of nursing Education and Practice
- 2014- Editor for Edorium Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation
Membership
2017- External evaluator for Quebec provincial funding FRQSC
2016- Knowledge Translation and Implementation Science Faculty Expert of Canadian Patient Safety Institute
2016- Quebec Nurses Corporation’s disciplinary council
2016- Université Laval Research Commission
2007- REPAR-FRQS member
Editorships (recent and relevant)
- St-Germain, D., Connolly, M., & Hitzig, S.L. (2017). L’élimination intestinale chez les blessés médullaires : quand la phénoménologie vient au service d’un problème hautement humain. L’infirmière clinicienne, 14(1), 12-23.
- Sylvie Tétreault, Chantal Desmarais, Pascale Marier-Deschênes, Daphney St-Germain, Lilyane Rachédi, Dayna McLaughlin, Élisabeth Rogers, Geneviève Piérart, Alida Gulfi, Marie-Catherine St-Pierre (2014). Communication entre intervenants oeuvrant auprès de l’enfant d’âge préscolaire et les familles immigrantes : étude de la portée. Revue francophone de la déficience intellectuelle, vol. 25, 176-192.
- Milot, É., Dumont, S., Aubin, M., Bourdeau, G., Mbourou Azizah, G., Picard, L., & St-Germain, D. (2015). Building an Interfaculty Interprofessional Education Curriculum: What can we learn from the Université Laval experience? Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice. 28(1), 58-63.
- Burns, A.S., St-Germain, D., Connolly, M., Delparte, J.J., Guindon, A. Hitzig, S.L. & Craven, C.B. (2014). Neurogenic Bowel After Spinal Cord Injury From the Perspective of Support Providers: A Phenomenological Study. PM&R. 7(4): 407-416.
Conference Organization
- 2013- Organizing Committee member of the Scientific Day at IRDPQ
Published Online: October 8, 2014
- Burns, A.S., St-Germain, D., Connolly, M., Delparte, J.J., Guindon, A. Hitzig, S.L. & Craven, C.B. (2014). Phenomenological Study of Neurogenic Bowel From the Perspective of Individuals Living With Spinal Cord Injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 96(1): 49-55.e1
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.07.417
Published Online: August 26, 2014.
- St-Germain, D. (2014). The Rehabilitation Nurse Then and Now: From Technical Support to Human Potential Catalyst by Caring-Disability Creation Process Model in an Interprofessional Team. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 4(7), 54-61. http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/jnep/article/view/4303/0
- Over 25 peer-review, dissemination and book chapter publications
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