How to improve nursing practice with older people? Here, Dr Dahlke explores how she has been awarded funding from Canadian national funding, as well as other provincial funding bodies, to do just this
Dr Dahlke is an associate professor in the faculty of nursing at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has received international recognition as a Gerontological Nurse Educator and a McCalla Teaching Award. She is a certified gerontological nurse.
Dr. Dahlke’s program of research aims to improve nursing practice with older people. Her research focuses on three main themes:
- How nurses in interprofessional teams can enhance the care of older people
- Examining and improving nursing education related to older people
- How nurses’ perceptions of safety and harm and their context influence their practice with older people.
For the past three years, much of her work has focused on improving how both practicing nurses and nursing students are educated to work with older people.
As a result, she has developed ten e-learning activities (based on findings from her previous studies) to enhance undergraduate nurses’ education about older people.
The University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing is rated 1st in Canada and 5th in the world, with one of the largest faculties in Canada and more doctorally prepared faculty members than any other school in Western Canada.
Our faculty of nursing was the first to implement a Master of Nursing program in western Canada and the first fully-funded Nursing PhD program in Canada in 1991.
