Peer Reviewed Articles

Akoo, C. & McMillan, K.  (2023).  An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Palliative Care in Oncology Care.  Advances in Nursing Science,  46 (2),  199-209.  doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000444.

Cadell, S., & Wright, D. K. (2024). Queer Eye and grief. Mortality, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2024.2434467

Ma, K., Wright, D. K., Vanderspank-Wright, B., Peterson, W. E., & Carnevale, F. A. (2020). Nurses’ moral experiences of ethically meaningful end-of-life care: Distress, resilience, responsibility, and care. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 34(3), 269-285.

McMillan, K., Wright, D. K., McPherson, C. J., Ma, K., & Bitzas, V. (2021). Visitor Restrictions, Palliative Care, and Epistemic Agency: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Relational Practice During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 8, 23333936211051702.

McPherson, C. J., & Devereaux, A. (2024). A dyadic examination of patients’ and caregivers’ attachment orientations and mutually supportive care in cancer caregiving. Psycho-Oncology (Chichester, England), 33(1), e6256-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6256

Passos dos Santos, R., Macdonald, M. E., & Carnevale, F. A. (2022). Moral experiences of children with medical complexity: A participatory hermeneutic ethnography in Brazil. Journal of Child Health Care. https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935221112156 

Sofronas, M & Wright, DK. (2021). Neuropalliative Care: An Integrative Review of the Nursing Literature. International Journal of Nursing Research, In Press, January 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.103879

Sofronas, M & Wright, DK; Carnevale, FA. (2018). Personhood: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis for Nursing Ethics, Theory, Practice and Research. Nursing Forum, 58: 406-415.

Sorensen, S. J., Sofronas, M., Hudson, H., & Wright, D. K. (2021). Supporting ethical ICU nursing practice in organ donation: An analysis of personhood. The Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 32(1), 18–26. DOI: 10.5737/23688653-3211826

Wright, D. K., Ma, G., Charlebois, K., Gimmig, K., & Hodgson, L. (2023). “We’re Cancer Care Nurses”: Perceptions About Providing Palliative Care in a Community Hospital. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 25(2), 82–89. https://doi.org/10.1097/NJH.0000000000000928

Wright, D. K., Chan, L. S., Fishman, J. R., & Macdonald, M. E. (2021). “Reflection and soul searching”: Negotiating nursing identity at the fault lines of palliative care and medical assistance in dying. Social science & medicine (1982), 289, 114366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.
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Wright, D. K., Gastmans, C., Vandyk, A., & de Casterlé, B. D. (2020). Moral identity and palliative sedation: A systematic review of normative nursing literature. Nursing Ethics, 27(3), 868–886. https://doi.org/10.1177/096
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