Associate Professor, Nursing
Dr. Danielle Dunwoody is a Registered Nurse with a diverse clinical background in critical care, pain management, pediatrics, and peri anesthesia nursing. She has held various positions as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Acute Pain Management, an Assistant Professor of Nursing (undergraduate and graduate) at York University and most recently, as the Manager of the Maternal Newborn Department in Halton region. Dr. Dunwoody’s research involves both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Her research interests are centered around pain assessment and management practices, opioid safety and risk, as well as tacit knowledge in nursing practice.
- Opioid-induced sedation and cognition
- Clinical tool development for pain management
- Pain management and functional mobility
- Tacit knowledge in nursing practice
- Patient safety and risk
- College of Nurses of Ontario 2003 – present
- Canadian Nurses Association 2003 – present
- Canadian Pain Society member 2019 – present
- American Society for Pain Management Nursing 2011-present
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Gamma Kappa 2009-present
- Jungquist, C.R., Quinlan-Colwell, A., Vallerand, A., Carlisle, H., Cooney, M., Dunwoody, D.R., …& Polomano, R. (2020). American Society for Pain Management Nursing guidelines on monitoring for opioid-induced advancing sedation and respiratory depression: Revisions. Pain Management Nursing, 21(1), 7-25.
- Dunwoody, D.R., & Jungquist, C.R. (2020). Opioid-induced sedation and respiratory depression: Are sedation scales enough to prevent adverse drug events post-operatively? Pain Management Nursing, 21(1), 110-119. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2018.09.009
- Dunwoody, D.R., Jungquist, C.R., Chang, Y.P., & Dickerson, S. (2018). The Common Meanings and Shared Practices of Sedation Assessment in the Context of Managing Patients with an Opioid: A Phenomenological Study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28, 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14672
- Dunwoody, D.R., & Jungquist, C.R. (2018). Sedation Scales: Do they capture the concept of opioid induced sedation? Nursing Forum, 53, 399-405. doi:10.1111/nuf.12266
- Branch, C., Dunwoody, D., & McBrien, J. (2017). Comprehensive acute pain education at a tri-site organization. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1(1), A47-A59.
- Professional and Therapeutic Communication
- Nursing & Health Promotion: Canadian Context
Opportunities for prospective MA/MSc students with an interest in pain management, assessment, and patient safety.
Opportunities for prospective MA/MSc students with an interest in pain management, assessment, and patient safety.
