Shelley Raffin Bouchal

Shelley Raffin Bouchal

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Nursing, Faculty

Contact information

Phone number

Office: 403.220.6258

Location

Office: PF3260D

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Lynda Sea, Senior Manager - Communications

Office: +1.403.471-9762
Email: lsea@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @ucalgarynursing

Background

Educational Background

PhD Nursing, University of Alberta, 2002

MN Nursing, University of Calgary, 1992

BSN Nursing, University of Alberta, 1986

Diploma Nursing, Mount Royal University, 1980

Biography

In recent years Dr. Raffin Bouchal has consulted and presented on topics related to the wellness of palliative care professionals’, families’ anticipatory grief, and the grief of nurses caring for dying families. Her scholarship and research program is in the areas of palliative care, advance care planning and psychosocial/spiritual care at the end of life. She has extensive experience using qualitative methodologies. She serves on numerous internal and external committees including Chair of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Appeals Committee, Alberta Provincial End-of Life Care policy Advisory Committee, Covenant Health Palliative Institute Advisory Committee, Tom Baker Cancer Centre Nursing Council and Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board.

Research

Areas of Research

Anticipatory grief and bereavement, Psycho-social/spiritual care at the end-life, Advance care planning, Hospice palliative care, Nurses' grief, Qualitative research approaches, Caregiver wellness