Jacqueline van Wijlen
Jacqueline is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (BScN with Advanced Major with distinction), Dalhousie University (Master of Nursing-Nurse Practitioner Stream: Family/All-Ages) and a current PhD (Nursing) student at McGill University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Rankin School of Nursing and teaches courses in research methods, transition to professional nursing practice, and perinatal, children & family health.
Jacqueline’s nursing practice career spans from acute care (pediatric & neonatal intensive care) to work as a family practice nurse in an outpatient student health service clinic. In addition, she has been actively involved in preparing and supporting new graduate nurses (RN & LPN) in their transition to professional practice through various guest presentations, lectures and workshops across the province. Currently, Jacqueline is enrolled in the PhD (Nursing) program at McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing under the co-supervision of Dr. Sonia Semenic (McGill) and Dr. Megan Aston (Dalhousie). The focus of her doctoral work is a feminist poststructural exploration of premature parents’ experiences with infant feeding decision-making in the NICU.
Research interest areas include: perinatal health, children & adolescent health, family health as well as new graduate nursing transition & retention.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Carnevale, F., van Wijlen, J.E. & Carter, B. (2020). Ten ethical principles in palliative care. In Limbo, R., Wool, C. & Carter, B. (Eds.), Perinatal and neonatal palliative care clinical handbook for nurses, physicians, and other health professionals (1st ed.) (Ch. 21). NewYork, NY: Springer Publishing Company. See: https://connect.springerpub.com/highwire_display/entity_view/node/116475/content_details
van Wijlen, J.E. & Aston, M. (2019). Applying feminist poststructuralism as a framework for exploring infant feeding interactions in the neonatal intensive care unit. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Research, 1(1), 59-72. https://witness.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default/article/view/12
van Wijlen, J.E. (2018). Breastfeeding woman or lactating object? A critical philosophical discussion on the influence of Cartesian dualism on breastfeeding in the neonatal intensive care unit. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(5-6), 1022-1031. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.14686
van Wijlen, J.E. (2016). Healing the healer: A Caring Science approach to moral distress in new graduate nurses. International Journal for Human Caring, 21(1), 15-19. https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrijhc/21/1/15
DOCTORAL FUNDING AWARDS
2021-2022
- Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur (MES) & l’Ordre des Infirmières et Infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ), $39,000.
- Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research/Réseau de Récherche en Interventions en Sciences Infirmières du Québec (RRISIQ), $7,500.
2017-2021
- Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (MEES) & l’Ordre des Infirmières et Infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ), $39,000.
- Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research/Réseau de Récherche en Interventions en Sciences Infirmières du Québec (RRISIQ), $7,000.
- Eileen Peters Award, McGill University, $12,000 x 2. [2017-2018, 2018-2019]
- Graduate Excellence Fellowship, McGill University, $23,000. [2017-2018]
- Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Awards, McGill University, $2,312 total [2017-2021]
- Student Academic Development Awards (SADA), McGill University, $1,192 total [2017-2019]
PROVINCIAL COMPETITIVE PEER-REVIEWED GRANTS
Benoit, B., Leuschner, J., Cameron, A., Cassidy, C., Lukeman, S., van Wijlen, J., Martin
Misener, R., Campbell-Yeo, M. (2020). Co-development of implementation
interventions to support parent-led infant pain care: A collaborative, theoretically informed planning study. Nova Scotia Health Authority Translating Research Into Care Grant, Co-Investigator. Funded January 15, 2020. $3000.00.
NATIONAL COMPETITIVE PEER-REVIEWED GRANTS
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Implementation of a maternal pertussis immunization program: Improving coverage among Inuit women. Co-Investigator, 2017–2019. $199,992.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS AT PEER-REVIEWED FORUMS
van Wijlen, J.E. & Semenic, S. (2021, September 23). Exploring parents’ infant feeding decision-making experiences in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) during complex times: The evolution of a qualitative nursing doctoral study in the wake of COVID-19. [30-min. Virtual Oral Presentation]. 10th Annual Canadian Association of Perinatal & Women’s Health Nurses’ 2021 Conference.
van Wijlen, J.E., Semenic, S., Aston, M., Feeley, N. & Héon, M. (2021, March 3,4,10,17). Parents’ infant feeding decision-making experiences in the Neonatal IntensiveCare Unit (NICU): A proposed feminist poststructural exploration [Virtual Poster Presentation]. 34th Annual Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High-Risk Newborns, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA
van Wijlen, J.E. (2019, June 14). Caring Science as an approach to addressing & mitigating moral distress: Applicability to new graduate and student nurses. [30-Minute Oral Presentation]. Atlantic Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing 2019 Conference, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada.
van Wijlen, J.E. (2019, March 21). Applicability of various feminist theories and frameworks in exploring the unique challenges of supporting breastfeeding women in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). [60-minute Presentation/Discussion Session]. 14th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
van Wijlen, J.E., Dykes, F., Aston, M., Feely, N. & Semenic, E. (2019, March 20-22). A proposed feminist poststructural exploration of infant feeding support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [Poster Presentation & Roundtable Discussion]. 14th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
van Wijlen, J.E. (2018, Oct. 27-29). Breastfeeding woman or lactating body? Deconstructing the influence of Cartesian dualism on breastfeeding support interactions [Poster 2]. 24th Qualitative Health Research Conference, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Lukeman, S.O., van Wijlen, J.E. & Austen, E. (2018, May 28-31). Changing the conversation: A collective responsibility for supportive breastfeeding environments [Poster 42]. Public Health 2018 Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Lukeman, S.O., van Wijlen, J.E., Austen, E., Lukeman, E. & Aquino, N. (2017, Oct.15-16). Making room: Exploring the complexities, challenges and triumphs of establishing and implementing public breastfeeding spaces [Poster 05]. Canadian Association of Perinatal & Women’s Health Nurses’ 2017 Conference, Halifax, NS. [Winner: Best Poster, CAPWHN Conference 2017]
