Jamie Penner, RN, PhD(c)

Jamie Penner is an instructor in the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.
 
Her clinical experience began as a registered nurse on the Head and Neck Oncology Inpatient Unit at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. Following her Master of Nursing degree she worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Head & Neck Oncology at CancerCare Manitoba supporting patients and families across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
 
During her doctoral studies, Jamie held a research fellowship in the Psychosocial Oncology Research Training program through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research. Her doctoral work focused on the development and pilot randomized controlled trial of a home-based physical activity intervention as one means with which to promote the health of family caregivers of people with advanced cancer.
 
Jamie teaches undergraduate nursing courses in Supportive and Palliative Care, and Family Health, as well as the novel interdisciplinary undergraduate course in Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan that she co-developed.
 
Jamie's current scholarly work is focused on collaborating with communities and family caregivers to improve the caregiving experience and promote the health and wellbeing of family caregivers. At the heart of this work, is the ongoing development and evaluation of community-based experiential learning initiatives to increase family caregiving literacy among healthcare students, healthcare educators, family caregivers, and members of the broader community. Additionally, her work informs educational interventions for clinical nurse educators to enhance their integration of a palliative approach to care, including support of family caregivers, in clinical education of nursing students across settings.
 
Jamie has expertise in intervention development and evaluation and mixed methods research. Her work has been funded by various sources including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Manitoba Medical Services Foundation, and she has presented and published her work at the local, national, and international levels.

Education

• PhD, McGill University, in progress
• Master of Nursing, University of Manitoba (2009)
• Bachelor of Nursing, University of Manitoba (2002)
• Bachelor of Physical Education, University of Manitoba (1997)

Awards

• Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba (ARNM) Excellence in Nursing Education Award (2023)