Heather Laschinger
BN (New Brunswick), MAEd (Ottawa), PhD (Ottawa)
Distinguished University Professor & Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Resource Optimization
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Fellow of American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS)
Office: Room H41 - Health Sciences Addition
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 86567
Research Interests
- New graduate nurses' transition to professional practice
- Creating empowering nursing work environments
- Workplace incivility and bullying in nursing practice and education
- Leadership development
- Empowerment in nursing education
- Promoting effective interprofessional collaboration and practice
Research Affiliations
- Research Program in Health and Human Resources Optimization (graduate student funding opportunities available)
- Nursing Health Services Research Unit (University of Toronto) (graduate student funding opportunities available)
- Healthy Work Environment (HWE) Champion for the Province of Ontario
Teaching Areas
- N9683 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
- N9676 Organizational Theory and Design in Healthcare Systems
Graduate Student Supervision
- Master's
- PhD
Students Currently Under Supervision
Supervisor
- Siu, Heidi (PhD) - Examining the contextual factors, individual determinants, and work performance outcomes of nurses’ knowledge work
- Higgins, Elizabeth Ann (PhD) - Transformational leadership and the impact on organizational citizenship behaviours, patient safety culture and hospital, patient and staff outcomes
- Read, Emily (PhD) - Linking healthy work environments to physicall health of nurses
- Boamah, Sheila (PhD) - New graduate transition to the workforce
- Bushell, Pamela Mary (MScN) - New graduate nurses experiences of empowerment, incivility and burnout in Ontario acute care settings
- Stam, Lisa (MScN) - Linking psychological capital and structural empowerment to new graduate nurses’ job satisfaction
Thesis Advisory Committee Member
- Anderson, Lindsay (PhD)
- Giallonardo, Lisa (PhD)
- Khalili, Hossein (PhD)
- Ledoux, Kathleen (PhD)
- Powell, Jason Ryan Walter (PhD)
- Rykhoff, Margot (PhD)
- Morrow, Jean (MScN)
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Frieda Daniels
- Brenda Stutsky
- Siedine Knobloch Coetzee




