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Barbara Pesut
Professor
School of Nursing
Other Titles: Principal Research Chair in Palliative and End-of-Life CareOffice: ASC 287
Office Hours: Upon Request
Phone: 250-807-9955
Email: barb.pesut@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor

Research Summary
Palliative and end-of-life care; Medical Assistance in Dying; volunteer and peer navigation models; nursing philosophy
Courses & Teaching
Nursing 580: Philosophy of Nursing Science
Nursing 504: Evidence-Based Practice
Biography
I began my nursing career in 1982 and worked in pediatric oncology, rural nursing, and critical care. In 1992 I transitioned to hospital-based nursing education, and worked as a critical care educator for 5 years. After completing my MSN in 1997 I worked at Trinity Western University for 11 years and served as the Chair of the School of Nursing for six of those years. In 2007 I came to the University of British Columbia where I held a Canada Research Chair from 2010 to 2020. I now hold a Tier 1 Principal Research Chair in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
Websites
Degrees
PhD University of British Columbia, 2005
MSN University of British Columbia, 1997
BSN University of Victoria, 1992
Diploma in Nursing BCIT, 1982
Research Interests & Projects
Strategies to Relieve Suffering at End-of-LIfe; A longitudinal qualitative study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2019-2024.
Nav-CARE: Scale out and Adaptation of a Volunteer Navigation Model funded by Health Canada 2021-2026.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Pesut, B., Duggleby, W., Warner, G., Bruce, P., Ghosh, S., Holroyd-Leduc, J., Nekolaichuk, C., & Parmar, J. (2020). Outcomes of volunteer navigation for older persons with advanced chronic illness (Nav-CARE): A mixed method evaluation. BMC Palliative Care. 19, Article 159. https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12904-020-00666-2
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Schiller, C., Greig,, Roussel, J., Tishelman, C. (2020). Constructing Good Nursing Practice for Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Interpretive Descriptive Study. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 7, 1-11 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2333393620938686
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Storch, J., Chambaere, K., Greig,, Burgess, M. (2020) Riding an elephant. A qualitative study of nurses’ moral journeys in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(19-20) 3870-3881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15427
Pesut, B., Duggleby, W., Warner, G., Kervin, E., Bruce, P., Antifeau, E., & Hooper, B. (2020 in press). Implementing volunteer navigation for older persons with advanced chronic illness (Nav-CARE): A knowledge to action study. BMC Palliative Care.
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Schiller, C., Greig, M., Roussel, J. (2020). The rocks and hard places of MAiD: A qualitative study of nursing practice in the context of legislated assisted death. BMC Nursing. Published online February 17, 2020. https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-020-0404-5
Schiller, C., Pesut, B., Roussel, J., & Greig, M. But it’s legal isn’t it? Law and ethics in nursing practice related to medical assistance in dying. (2019). Nursing Philosophy. Published online August 20, 2019 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nup.12277.
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., & Greig, M. Shades of grey: Conscientious objection in medical assistance in dying. (2020) Nursing Inquiry (27) e12308. Published online July 4, 2019. https.//doi.org/10.1111/nin.12308.
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Greig, M., Fulton, A., Janke, R., & Vis-Dunbar, M. (2019) Ethical, policy, and practice implications of nurses’ experiences with assisted death: A synthesis. Advances in Nursing Science, 42(3) 216-230. doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000276.
Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Stager, M.L., Schiller, C., Penney, C., Hoffman, C., Greig, M., & Roussel, J. (2019) Medical assistance in dying: A narrative review of Canadian nursing regulatory documents. Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, Published online May 6, 2019. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527154419845407.
Pesut, B., Greig, M., Thorne, S., Storch, J. Burgess, M., Tishelman, C., Chambaere, K., Janke, R. (2020) Nursing and euthanasia: A narrative review of the nursing ethics literature. Nursing Ethics. 27(1), 152-167 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0969733019845127.
Selected Grants & Awards
Nursing Innovation Award | Innovation in Research | Nurse and nurse practitioner association of BC | December 2019 |
Health Researcher of the Year Award
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Distinction in Research | UBC Okanagan | March 2018 |
Innovations in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Awarded to Pesut and Duggleby for N-CARE program. | Innovation Award | Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement | June 21, 2017 |
CRNBC Award of Excellence in Nursing Research | Research | College of Registered Nurses of BC | 2011 |
Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees
RN Council Member, Nurse and Nurse Practitioner Association of BC