- Project Director, Lady Davis Institute
- Senior Researcher, Centre for Nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital
- Professor, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University
Major Research Activities
Nancy
Feeley, nurse scientist, joined the Centre for Nursing Research in 2002. Her
program of research focuses on parents of NICU infants, their psychological
well-being and relationship with their infant; fathers and their parenting in
this context, NICU design and the effects on parents, infants and staff; the
development of nursing interventions and perinatal mental health. She also has
an interest in how pilot randomized controlled trials can be used to assess the
feasibility and acceptability of intervention programs and study procedures.
She is a member of the SCENE research group
(Separation and Closeness in the Neonatal Environment) (https://sites.utu.fi/scene/).
Studies with Dr Anna Axelin from Turku University in Finland explore closeness
and separation between parents and their infants during a NICU hospitalization.
Recent Publications
Feeley, N.,Robins, S., Genest, C., Stremler, R., Zelkowitz,
P., & Charbonneau, L. (2020). A
comparative study of mothers of infants hospitalized in an open ward neonatal
intensive care unit and a combined pod and single-family room design. BMC Pediatrics, 20, 38. doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1929-1.
Feeley,
N., Hayton, B., Gold, I., & Zelkowitz, P.
(2017). A comparative prospective cohort study of women following childbirth:
Mothers of low birthweight infants at risk for elevated PTSD symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 101, 24-30.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2017.07.014.
Feeley, N., Genest, C.,Niela-Vilen, H.,
Charbonneau, L & Axelin, A. (2016) Parents and
nurses balancing parent-infant closeness and separation: A qualitative study of
NICU nurses’ perceptions. BMC Pediatrics,
16(1), 134. doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0663-1.
Feeley, N.,
Zelkowitz, P., Shrier, I., Stremler, R., Westreich, R., Dunkley, D.,
Steele, R., Rosberger, Z., Lefebvre, F., & Papageorgiou, A. (2012). Follow up of the Cues and Care randomized
controlled trial: Mother and infant outcomes at 6 months. Journal of Early
Intervention, 34(2), 65-81. doi.org/10.1177/1053815112453767.
|