Louise Dumas’s research while affiliated with University of Hull and other places

Portrait des besoins des mères et des pères après la mort de leur enfant, tel qu'obtenu par l'entremise d'une étude qualitative auprès de soixante-dix membres de cinquante familles. Des pistes d'intervention sont ensuite proposées.

Collaboration in teaching can take different forms, including the model of coteaching. This educational strategy requires time, effort, commitment, and collaboration between partners in order to ensure an enhanced teaching and learning experience. Little has been written recently on the theory of coteaching. The literature does not address the subject of coteaching or team teaching from a combined theoretical and clinical perspective. Two professors in nursing sciences present their experience in coteaching over a 4-year period, covering a theoretical course and a clinical practicum at the basic baccalaureate level, as well as the supervision of clinical preceptors for this same practicum. They describe the conceptual, personal, and environmental conditions that enabled them to use this particular form of teaching at this point in their careers. They discuss how the concept works as well as the advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of professors, students, and preceptors. Recommendations are made for implementing such a strategy while minimizing the risks for the program, the teachers, the students, and the educational milieux. Their discussion may provide insight for programs that prepare childbirth educators.

La période prénatale est une étape importante dans la vie des couples qui attendent un premier enfant. Pour les infirmières, elle est un moment privilégié pour effectuer des interventions préventives et éducatives auprès des futurs parents. Deux infirmières ont cherché à connaître comment l'intervention infirmière peut influer sur la relation conjugale de couples primipares

To describe the impact of a baby's death on the family's social network and to design nursing interventions to support families and their networks. Descriptive, with a qualitative approach. An urban area of western Quebec. Twenty parents (mothers and fathers) who had experienced a perinatal loss (abortion, miscarriage, in-utero death, stillbirth, or death of a newborn within the 1st week of life) within the last 6 years. Self-administered questionnaires developed by the authors were completed by each parent. Family members' quality and quantity of ties with their network were profoundly affected by the perinatal loss. Some families experienced reinforcement of their bonds with their social network, but most suffered permanent losses of relationships with friends, colleagues, or extended family members. The quality and quantity of ties with one's network are associated with improved health status and life satisfaction. Considering the changes participants noted in their relationships within their network, further studies of the impact of these changes on family members' grieving process would be useful to guide nursing interventions.

When nursing assessment and intervention are focused on the family as a system rather than on one individual client, new competencies have to be developed. The University of Que'bec in Hull offers an innovative learning experience in the post-R.N. baccalaureate program, which includes a 45-hour theoretical course entitled "Family-Centered Nursing Interventions" and a 135-hour practicum called "Clinical Practicum in the Nursing Care of Families. " This article describes the use of conceptual models in nursing (Roy and Orem) to teach family nursing theory and practice.

The death of a child has major repercussions on the family system. To develop a reference framework for intervention by health care professionals, the authors describe their research on Quebec families who have lost a child. Semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire were used to gather data from families who had experienced the death of a child up to age 18 during the past six years. The final sample consisted of 76 participants. Analysis of the data highlights the impact of the death on the family's functioning and structure. Adjustment to the absence of the deceased member is a major cause of stress that effectively redefines the role of every family member. Their social network undergoes transformations and family members experience a period of great emotional vulnerability. The authors believe that specific, structured and appropriate support can make the difference between an extended period of psychosocial distress or greater family cohesion. Thus, a nurse who wishes to intervene with families in mourning following a perinatal death, a sudden death or an anticipated death, can use the intervention plan the authors developed for this purpose.