Master of Science
in Nursing

Christine Jonas-Simpson, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD

Assistant Professor Office: HNES Room 321

Telephone: 416-736-2100 (ext. 21019)

Email: jonasimp@yorku.ca

Degrees

1998 – PhD, Nursing Science. Loyola University Chicago

1989 – MScN, University of Toronto

1985 – BScN, McMaster University

Certification

Certified in Perinatal Loss and Bereavement

Selected Publications

Macdonald, C. & Jonas-Simpson, C. (in press). Living with changing expectations for women living with high-risk pregnancies: A Parse method study. Nursing Science Quarterly.

Jonas-Simpson, C., Mitchell, G.J., Fisher, A. Jones, G. & Linscott, J. (2006). A qualitative study on: the experience of being listened to for older persons living in a long-term care setting, Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 32(1), 46-54. .

Jonas-Simpson, C., & McMahon, E. (2005). Practice Applications. The language of loss when a baby dies prior to birth: Cocreating human experience. Nursing Science Quarterly, 18, 124-130.

Jonas-Simpson, C. & Mitchell, G.J. (2005). Giving voice to expressions of quality of life for persons living with dementia through story, music and art. Alzheimer Care Quarterly, 6(1), 52-61.

Mitchell, G.J. Pilkington, F.B. Jonas-Simpson, C. Aiken, F. Carson, M.G. Fisher, A. & Lyon, P. (2005). The meaning of waiting for persons in long-term care. A descriptive-exploratory study. Nursing Science Quarterly, 18, 163-70.

Jonas-Simpson, C. (2004). Musical expressions of life: A look at the 18th and 19th century from a human becoming perspective. Nursing Science Quarterly, 17, 324-329.

Jonas-Simpson, C. (2003). Courage and commitment: Working the front during the first wave of the SARS outbreak, nurses from Toronto share their stories. Canadian Nurse, 99 (8), 9-12.

Jonas-Simpson, C. (2003). The lived experience of being listened to: A human becoming study with music. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 232-238.

Moore, T. Hollett, J. Pilkington, F.B. & Jonas-Simpson, C. (2003). Feeling confined: A pilot study of the lived experience for persons with dementia residing on a locked unit. Perspectives: Journal of The Gerontological Nursing Association, 27 (2), 5-12.

Nelligan P., Grinspun D., Jonas-Simpson C., McConnell H., Peter E., Pilkington B., Balfour J. , Connolly L., Lefebre N., Reid-Haughian C., & Sherry K. (2002). Client-centred care: making the ideal real. Hospital Quarterly, 5, 70-4.

Selected Grants

(2005) Jonas-Simpson, C., McMahon, E. & Bayly, A. The experience and meaning of living with and transforming loss for women whose babies are born still: Translation through the Arts. Funded through the Practice Based Research Award, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre ($6,200).

(2004) Jonas-Simpson, C. Mapping the literature of prenatal loss and bereavement. Funded by the Registered Nurses Foundation of Ontario ($1500). (2004) Jonas-Simpson, C., McMahon, E., Watson, J. & Andrews, L. The experience of caring for families whose babies are born still or die at birth for nurses. Funded through the Practice Based Research Award, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre ($4,715)

(2004) I am still here - Living with Alzheimer’s disease. Mitchell, G. J., & Jonas-Simpson, C. (Co-P.I.s), & Ivonoffski, V. (Playwright/ Director). (Ken Murray and the Murray Alzheimer and Research Education Program (MAREP), & University of Waterloo; Collaborative Research Program: Rehabilitation & Long-Term Care; Sunnybrook & Women’s Research Institute; Canadian Nurses Foundation, $45,000).

MacDonald, C. & Jonas-Simpson, C. (2002-2007). The Experience of living with changing expectations for women experiencing high-risk pregnancies. S&W Practice Based Research Award, $2256, (1/3 CNF funding). Publication in press. Research presented at AWHONN conference, 2007 in Miami Florida. \

Current Research Projects

(2005) Jonas-Simpson, C. McMahon, E. & Bayly, A. The experience and meaning of living with and transforming loss for women whose babies are born still: Translation through the Arts. Funded through the Practice based research award, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre.

Mitchell, G.J., Dupuis, S. & Jonas-Simpson, C. (2006). Knowledge translation through research-based drama on dementia: Evaluating change in understanding, imaging, and action. SSHRC grant, $155,000.

Jonas-Simpson, C. (proposal phase) Invisible Child: Living with Loss and Love after a Baby’s Passing: A Research-Based Documentary.

Children’s Book

Ethan’s Butterflies: A Spiritual Book for Parents and Young Children after a Baby’s Passing. (2006). Victoria, B.C.: Trafford.  www.trafford.com/06-0606 (C. Jonas-Simpson, author; K. Friis, illustrator)