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Biography

Dr. Jansen recently completed Associate and Assistance Dean terms in which she established distributive University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Nursing education sites. In these positions, she worked with many internal and external stakeholders to foster interactive student learning though state of the art video and electronic conferencing technology, thus connecting nursing students and academic health science colleges across the province. Prior to joining USask, she worked in administrative and care roles within Executive Provincial Government, health regions, rural communities and long-term care settings. These roles included policy and program development and evaluation, inter-disciplinary team facilitation, quality improvement and regionalized health system accreditation. Dr. Jansen is an alumnus of USask having completed her BSN and MN at the College of Nursing. Her doctoral studies were conducted at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University in London Ontario.

Dr. Jansen’ practice of professional skills is concerned with the topic of knowledge translation (KT) within the field of implementation science and community-engaged research. Specifically, she has evolved her practice to co-create KT strategies informed by a substantive theory of social interaction KT ‘Translating Through Relating’ (Jansen et al., 2013). This theory suggests that relational interactions and sharing of experiential care knowledge amongst healthcare providers, clients, families, and diverse communities promote evidence-based KT for chronic care and health promotion. The findings contrast with traditional educational approaches of professional didactic information transfer and offer understanding about co-facilitation of KT. Her practice is focused on work with older adults, however, has been applied in Indigenous community settings with children and families. She uses participatory methods such as Pro-Action Café in addition to systematic and scoping reviews as methods for knowledge synthesis and dissemination. Dr. Jansen is a certified Johanna Briggs Institute reviewer for systematic and scoping reviews.

Courses

Dr. Jansen’s teaching roles have focused on Community Health and Professional Nursing Practice Issues at the undergraduate level, as well as Research Methods in the Master of Nursing Program. She has supervised graduate students who conduct systematic and scoping reviews and assisted these students to publish scholarly work.

  • NURS 307: Integrating Mental Health and Addiction into Nursing
  • NURS 322: Leadership for Education and Care
  • NURS 431: Community Practice
  • NURS 824: Advanced Integrative Exercise (Scoping Review)
  • NURS 892: Quantitative Research Methods
  • STATS 818: Statistical Methodology in Nursing

Research Interests

  • Home care
  • Aging
  • Social interaction knowledge translation
  • Global Health Strategies
  • Client and Family-Centered Care

Methodology

  • Quantitative
  • Qualitative
  • Mixed methods
  • Other Integrated KT

Publications

Grants

Tzeng HM (Principal Investigator), Jansen S (Co-principal Investigator), Dykes P (Co-principal Investigator). Fall TIPS Dissemination and Adoption in Long Term Care: Engaging Seniors in Injurious Fall Prevention in Saskatchewan and Beyond, University of Saskatchewan International Partnership (Harvard) Grant. Total: $20,000.00 for 2018 - 04 -12 to 2021-04 -13.
Collaboration with Dr. Beth Horsburgh (PI) and Dr. Joanne Kappel (PI) to conduct a scoping review and supervise a doctoral nursing student regarding Canadian Indigenous People’s health literacy (Can-SoLVE Theme 3.3A: CIHR SPOR Network Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Pan-Canadian Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations, Management and Operations Grant; Saskatchewan Network, Phase 2 Grant Canadian Institutes of Health Research Improving Indigenous Patient Knowledge about Treatment Options) Findings of this review informed how to work together with Indigenous communities to co-create and translate chronic care knowledge to manage chronic kidney conditions. Dr. Kappel and Dr. Horsburgh were collaborators with a national interdisciplinary research team that was awarded $1,000,000,00 from CIHR (2015 to 2020).
Comment: The Scoping Review was published in March, 2020

External Committees

  • Saskatchewan Health Authority Research Ethics Board – Alternate (2023 – 2026)
  • Independent Assessment Committee Chair (Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and Saskatchewan Health Authority), January 2022 to present.
  • Registration and Membership Committee, College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan, Committee Member January 2018 to present; Chair in 2020 to 2021, (re-appointed Chair in 2021 to 2024)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research College of Reviewers Member, 2022 to present
  • Prince Albert Regional Economic Development Alliance Board (PREDA) Director at Large, City of Prince Albert, January 2019 to June 2022
  • University of Victoria Centre for Evidence Informed Nursing and Healthcare (CEINHC) Member. An Evidence Synthesis Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute Victoria, British Columbia, University of Victoria

Honours (Medals, Fellowships, Prizes)

  • Western University Gold Medal for high academic achievement in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing Doctoral Program
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training in Research in Primary Health Care Strategic Training Fellow
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow
  • Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society 2006 to present
  • Ann C. Beckingham Scholarship, Canadian Nurses Foundation
  • Ontario Government Scholarship, Government of Ontario / OTHER PROVINCES & TERRITORIES