Academic Staff

Susan McClement, RN, PhD
Associate Professor

E: Susan_McClement@umanitoba.ca
P: 204.787.4935
F: 204.787.4937

 

 

 EducationB
 
PhD, University of Manitoba
MN, University of Manitoba
BScN, University of Victoria
RN, Grace General Hospital
 
 Other Appointments (Academic/Research)
 
Scholar-in Residence, Nursing Division, Saskatchewan Institute for Applied Science & Technology
Member, Research Committee, Riverview Health Centre, Winnipeg, MB
Member, Research Review Committee, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA)
 
 Specialty/Clinical/Teaching Areas
 
Clinical Interests: Psychosocial care of terminally ill patients and their families

Teaching Areas: Palliative nursing care (Undergraduate and BPRN programs) & Qualitative Research Methods (Graduate Nursing program)
 

 Current Research
 
National Patient Dignity Inventory Study
Responding to Nurses’ Moral Distress
Expert care of the dying from the perspective of health care aides
Family member’s role in promoting adherence to colorectal cancer screening
 
 Current Grants
 
National patient dignity inventory study Principal Investigator: Chochinov, H. Co-Investigators:, McClement, S., Hack, T., Harlos, M., Hassard, T., Taylor-Brown, J. Granting Agency: National Cancer Institute of Canada. Funds Awarded:. Total: $446,050. (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011

Exploring Ethical Practice in Palliative Home Care Using Appreciative Inquiry. Principal Investigator: Dr. Marie Edwards. Co-Investigator: Dr. Susan McClement. Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Funds awarded:  $47, 695 (04/2009-03/2011)

Assessing the Relevance of the Patient Dignity Inventory in Identifying Distress and Influencing Clinical Care in Palliative Care. Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan McClement. Co-Investigators: Drs. Harvey Chochinov; Tom Hack; Mike Harlos; Tom Hassard; Neil Hagen Shane Sinclair & Allison Murray Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute for Cancer Research (awarded September 2009) Funds Awarded: $100,000. Manitoba Health Research Council: $55,908.

Primary Care Oncology – New Emerging Team (PCO-NET): Colorectal Cancer Screening Principal Investigator: Dr. Alan Katz Co-Investigators: Drs. D. Turner; J. Sisler; P. Martens, M. Lobchuk, S. McClement et al Granting Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Funds Awarded: $1,483,191 (April 2007 to March 2012)
 

 Recent Publications
 
Peer Reviewed Articles:
Chochinov, H., Hassard, T., McClement, S., Hack, T., Kristjanson, L. J., Harlos, M., Sinclair, S., Murray, A. (2009). The landscape of distress in the terminally ill. Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, 38, 641-649.

Hack, T.F., McClement, S.E., Chochinov, H. M., Cann, B., Hassard, T., Kristjanson, L. J., & Harlos, M. (2010). Learning from dying cancer patients during their final days: life reflections gleaned from dignity therapy. Palliative Medicine, 24, 715-723..

Hearson, B., McClement, S.E., & Daeninck, P. Sleeping with one eye open: the sleep experience of family members providing palliative care at home (in press). Journal of Palliative Care.

Lowe, M., McClement, S.E. (in press). The lived experience of young Canadian widows. Omega. Scheduled to be published in 62(2). Page numbers pending.

McClement, S.E., Lobchuk, M.M., Chochinov, H.M., & Dean, R.K. (2010). “Broken covenant: Health care aides’ ‘experience of the ethical’ in caring for dying seniors in a personal care home. Journal of Clinical Ethics, 21(3), 201-211

McClement, S. E., & Fallis, W. M. (2009). Family Presence during Resuscitation: Canadian Critical Care Nurses’ Perspectives. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 41:3, 233-240.

McClement, S. E., Wowchuk, S., Klaasen, K. (2009). “Caring as if it were my family”: Health care aides’ perspectives about expert care of the dying resident in a personal care home. Palliative & Supportive Care, 7:449-457. Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters:
McClement, S.E. (2010). Involuntary weight loss and altered body image in patients with cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome. In: E. Del Fabbro, V. Baracos, W. Demark-Wahnefried, T. Bowling, J. Hopkinson, & e. Bruera, (Eds.), Nutrition and the cancer patient. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp. 499-508).

McClement S.E., & Chochinov HM (in press). Spirituality in supportive oncology. In C. Zimmerman, (Ed.), Supportive Oncology (1st edition) New York: Elsevier.

McClement, S. E., & Chochinov, H. M. (2009) Depression. In T. D. Walsh, et al. (Eds.), Palliative medicine (pp. 865-871). Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

McClement, S. E. (2009). Eating issues in palliative cancer patients. In H. M. Chochinov & W. Breitbart  (Eds.), Handbook of psychiatry in palliative medicine (2nd ed.), pp. 417-426. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Abstracts:
McClement, S., Fallis, W., & Pereira, A. (2010). Family Presence During Resuscitation (FPDR) in the Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit: Family Members’ Perspectives. Abstract D08-A: Journal of Palliative Care, 26(3), p.216.

Hack, T., McClement, S., Chochinov, H., Cann, B., Hassard, T., Kristjanson, L., Harlos, M. (2010). What can we learn from cancer patients’ reflections on life as death approaches? Analysis of dignity therapy transcripts. <Abstract>. Journal of Palliative Care, 26, 223.

Hack, T.F., McClement, S.E., Chochinov, H.M., Cann, B., Hassard, T., Kristjanson, L., Harlos, M. (2010). What can we learn from cancer patients’ reflections on life as death approaches? Analysis of dignity therapy transcripts. <Abstract>. Psycho-Oncology, 19 (Suppl. 2): S182.

Edwards, M., Webster, G., Murphy, P, & McClement, S.E. (2010). Moral Distress – Seeking Greater Clarity to Restore Moral Meaning. Conference Book of Abstracts. 21st Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Kelowna, B.C. (p 6).