Academic Staff

Diana McMillan, RN, PhD
Associate Professor

E: Diana_McMillan@umanitoba.ca
P: 204.474.7295
F: 204.474-7682

 

 

 Education
 
PhD, University of Washington
MN, University of Manitoba
BNSc, Queen's University
BA (Hons), Queen's University
 
 Specialty/Clinical/Teaching Areas

Research Interests: Sleep, sleep disturbance (especially in patients with advanced cancer, fibromyalgia, insomnia, and back pain), sleep health promotion interventions, acute and chronic pain, quality of life, coping, stress, heart rate variability.

Clinical Interests: Sleep, pain, adult medicine and surgery.

Teaching Areas: Physiological and acute care nursing, sleep, pain, coping, nursing theory, quantitative research methods.
 

 Recent Grants
 
Hamel, C., McMillan, D., & Cerqueti, L. Psychometric evaluation of the PACCI (Pain Assessment in the Cognitively/Communicatively Impaired) Tool. Riverview Health Centre Research Grant. Funds awarded: $7,500.

Temple, B., (PI) Secco, L., Yu, C.T., McMillan, D., & Kepron, E. Knowledge Translation Synthesis Grant: Pain in people with developmental disabilities: A scoping review. CIHR 2009-2010. Funds awarded: $39,685.
 

 Recent Publications

 
Edwards, M., McMillan, D., & Fallis, W. (2010). Balancing the “goods”: Managers’ perceptions of napping during breaks on night shifts [Abstract]. Dynamics, 21(2), 16-17.

Mandzuk, L.L., McMillan, D.E., & Bohm, E.R. (2010). The Bone and Joint Decade in Canada: A Look Back and A Look Forward. International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, 14, 12-17.

McMillan, D.E., Fallis, W.M., & Edwards, M.P. (2010, Winter). Napping During Breaks on Night Shift – Perspectives of Critical Care Nurses on Experiences, Barriers, and the Impact on Patient and Nurse Health and Safety. Victoria General Hospital Foundation Newsletter, 28, 2. (Invited article).

McMillan, D.E. (2010, Winter). Sleep Health and You. Breast Cancer Action Manitoba News and Views, 44, 2-5. (Invited article).

McMillan, D.E. (2010). Rest and Sleep. In B. Kozier et al. (Eds.), Fundamentals of Nursing,  (2nd Canadian ed., pp. 1080-1102). Toronto, ON: Prentice-Hall.

McMillan, D. & Burr, R. (2010). Heart rate variability. In S. Woods, E., Froelicher, S., Motzer, and E. Bridges, (Eds.), Cardiac Nursing (6th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott.

Wells, T., Sawatzky, J. V., McMillan, D. (2009). Sleep disturbance in Parkinson’s disease: A human response to illness. Canadian Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 31(4), 24-32.