Academic Staff

Ruth Anne Kinsman Dean, MS, PhD
Senior Instructor &
Internationational Affairs Coordinator

E: Ruth_Dean@umanitoba.ca
P: 204.474.6816
F: 204.474.7682

   
 

 Education
 
PhD, University of Manitoba
MS, University of Minnesota
BN, University of Manitoba
Diploma in Nursing, Nova Scotia Hospital
 
 Specialty/Clinical/Teaching Areas
  
Clinical Interests: Palliative care, bereavement support, cross-cultural nursing, international health, nursing ethics

Teaching Areas: Palliative care, nursing ethics, Nursing Foundation for BPRN program
 
 Recent Publications and Presentations
  
Dean, R. A. K., (2010). Cultural competence: Nursing in a multicultural society. Nursing and Women’s Health, 14, 51-59.

McClement, S.E., Chochinov H.M., & Dean, R. Lobchuk, M.M (2009). Health Care Aides 'Experience of the Ethical' in Caring for Dying Seniors in a Personal Care Home Book of Abstracts: 3rd International In Sickness and in Health Conference: Government of the Self in the Clinic and the Community (Abstract A2-p.23).

Dean, R.  Far from home: International initiatives at the UM Faculty of Nursing, STTI, Xi Lambda Chapter, AGM, April, 2009.

Dean, R. Building cultural competence: Reflections on working in Cuba. Address to audience at ceremony for conferral on Visiting Professor designation, Universidad de Ciencas Medicas de la Habana, Nov.2009