Biography:

Dr. Laurie Clune is a Registered Nurse and tenured faculty member at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Ryerson University. Her teaching responsibilities are in the graduate and undergraduate programs in courses focused on the evolution of nursing knowledge, critical social theory and professional practice.

Dr. Clune’s research interests are in the areas of the social organization of health care as it relates to health human resources and the occupational health and safety needs of health care workers. She explores these areas using qualitative approaches - specifically institutional ethnography. 

Dr. Clune has completed a post doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Work and Health, a PhD focused in Nursing Administration and a Master of Health Professional Education from the University of Toronto, a BScN with honours from Ryerson University and a BA in sociology from The University of Western Ontario. Her training as a registered nurse occurred at Seneca College.

External Research Grants 2006-2011

2010- 12	Co Investigator On the Margins: Understanding the Employment Patterns, Motivations & Outcomes of Nurses Working for Multiple Employers & Temporary Agencies Investigators: Dr. Rachel Myers (PI) and Dr. Sean Clarke, Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Dr. Laurie Clune, Ryerson University, Dr. Emile Tompa, the Institute for Work and Health Role: Lead investigator for the qualitative portion of this mixed method study, knowledge dissemination Funding source: Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Amount approved -  $169,532 Status: REB approval at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University, Data collection to begin Fall 2011
2010 –	Co Investigator Title: Occupational Health and Safety  Economic Evaluation Resource Needs for the Health Care Sector in Ontario Investigators: Dr. Emile Tompa (PI), Dr. Cameron Mustard, Dr. Ben Amick III, (Institute for Work and Health) Dr. Laurie Clune (Ryerson University) Dr. Carolyn Dewa, (Centre for Addictions and Mental Health) Funding source: The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board – development grant Amount:  $29,960.00 Status: Data collection secondary sources phase
2006-2008	Co Investigator Facilitating the Acquisition of Proficiency in English Among Adult Immigrant Women: Filling the Gaps, Investigators: Principal Investigator: Dr. Kenise Murphy-Kilbride. Co-Investigators: Merhunnisa Ali, Rachel Berman, Isaac Woungang, Susanna Edwards, Marju Toomsalu, Laurie Clune, Sepali Guruge. Community Partner: Robert Cazzola, COSTI Immigrant Services. Funding source: Canadian Council on Learning Amount: $70,000 Status: completed and published Available at http://ceris.metropolis.net/Virtual%20Library/EResources/Kilbride_et_al2007.pdf

Internal Research Funding 2006-2011

2003	Publication grant Funding source: Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University Amount Awarded $1000 Status: three podium presentations at peer reviewed conferences were delivered.

Publications and Presentations:

Abstracts or Articles in Refereed Journals 2006-2011

Guruge, S., Murphy-Kilbride, K.,  Tyyska, V., Berman, R., Woungang, I., Edwards, S., Toomsalu, M., Clune, L.  (December 2009).  Implications of English Proficiency on Immigrant Women’s Access to and Utilization of Health Services, Women's Health and Urban Life, 8 (2) available online at http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~womenshealth/womenshealth/Issue_Summaries.html

Bender, A., Clune, L., & Guruge, S., (2009 commemorative issue). Considering place in community nursing. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 41, (1), 128-143.

This paper was selected by the journal for the commemorative issue.

Bender, A., Clune, L., & Guruge, S., (2007). Considering place in community nursing. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 39, (3), 20 – 35.

Invited Presentation at Refereed Conference 2006-2011

Clune L. (Aug 18, 2011). Institutional Ethnography training session: Mapping the social. The Society for the Study of social problems.  Las Vegas NV.

Clune, L. (April 27, 2010). Trying to get back: The challenges faced by registered nurses returning to work. The Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Ontario.

Clune, L. (November, 2009).  Informant maps in qualitative research: An innovative way of collecting data. The Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Ontario.

Clune, L. (Feb, 2010). How nurses get hurt: Trying to get back. International Nurse Interest Group, The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.

Clune, L., (May 2009).  The social organization of return to work from the standpoint of the injured nurse. Lawrence S. Bloomberg Research Conference.  Toronto Ontario.

Clune, L. (May,  2009). Can we admit a nursing student with a (dis)ability?: Success stories. College Committee on Disability Issues,  Huntsville Ontario.

Oral Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings 2006-2011

Clune, L. (Aug 2011).  Discussant: The social organization of contemporary health care. Society for the Study of Social Problems – Institutional ethnography division. Las Vegas Nevada.

Clune, L. (Aug 2011).  Injured by the nursing work, disabled by return to work: An institutional ethnography. Society for the Study of Social Problems – Institutional ethnography division. Las Vegas Nevada.

Clune, L. (June 2011). Where the nurse gets hurt: Hospital injury management practices. Advancing Health Research toward Social Justice: Building on Diversity & Resilience, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing 4^th Annual Research Day, Ryerson University. June 2011.

Clune L. (accepted). Where the injured nurse gets hurt: How the social organization of Canadian Hospitals hinder their successful return to work.  4th International In Sickness & In Health Conference, Odense, Denmark. May 2011

Clune, L. (October, 2010) When the injured nurse returns to work.  The Second Biennial Bilingual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health, Ottawa, Ontario.

Clune, L. (Aug. 2010). Mapping work: Using informant generated maps to discover the social organization of injury management. Social Justice Work, The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta, Georgia USA.

Clune, L. (July 2010) The social (dis)organization of "Return to Work" from the standpoint of the injured nurse: An institutional ethnography. 21st International Research Congress, Global Diversity through Research, Education and Evidence-based practice. Sigma Theta Tau International . Orlando Florida USA.

Clune, L. (May 2010). When the nurse gets hurt: How participant maps of their injury experience illuminated the social organization of injury management. The 27th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference: Social Pragmatism as a Conceptual Foundation, Brantford Ontario.

Clune, L., (May 2009), When the nurse gets hurt: The social organization of injury management and return to work. Third International In Sickness & in Health Conference, Victoria British Columbia Canada.

Clune, L. (April, 16 2009). Injury management and return to work from the standpoint of injured nurses: Helping or Hurting? 3rd International In Sickness & In Health Conference, Victoria British Columbia.

Clune, L. (May, 2008). Admitting students with (dis)abilities into nursing programs: What we know and where we need to go. 2008 CASN Nursing Academic Leadership Conference, Toronto Ontario.

Clune, L. (May 2008). The social organization of injury management. Lawrence S. Bloomberg Research Conference.  Toronto Ontario.

Clune, L. (September 2006) Learning through the stories: How community partner’s and narratives shape an innovate curriculum in end of life care.  The Registered Nurses Association, Region 8 conference, Cobourg, Ontario. Local

Clune, L., (May 24, 2006). From poetry to a renewed perspective in (dis)ability research In symposium presentation Lapum, J., Leung, D. Clune, L. Storied experiences of intentionality in the doctoral research journey: A revealing of self-other. Narrative Matters 2006, Halifax Nova Scotia. International

Clune, L., (May 25, 2006) Busting out of the box: A journey with poetry and narrative in a land of science.Narrative Matters 2006, Halifax,  Nova Scotia. International

Poster Presentations at Refereed Conferences 2006-2011

Clune, L. (June 2008). The social organization of Ontario workplace injury management: An institutional ethnography of regulated nurses’ experiences. Ryerson University Nursing Research Conference.

Clune, L. (June 2008). Challenging how we teach by discovering (dis)ability: The documented experiences of nursing students.  Ryerson University Nursing Research Conference.

Sepali Guruge, Kenise Murphy-Kilbride. Vappu Tyyska,  Rachel Berman, Isaac Woungang, Susanna Edwards, Marju Toomsalu, Laurie Clune. (June 2008). The influence of the acquisition of proficiency in English on health service utilization of immigrant women. Ryerson University Nursing Research Conference.

Sepali Guruge, Kenise Murphy-Kilbride. Vappu Tyyska,  Rachel Berman, Isaac Woungang, Susanna Edwards, Marju Toomsalu, Laurie Clune. (March 2008). Facilitating the Acquisition of Proficiency in English Among Adult Immigrant Women: Filling the Gaps. University of Windsor Nursing Research Conference.

Clune, L. (2007 June). The barriers faced by students with disabilities in health professional programs: What we know and where we need to go. Society for Disability Studies: Seattle Washington.

Clune, L. (2007 March). Value based learning: Using narrative in an end of life care curriculum. Faculty of Community Services: Scholarly Research and Creative Activities Awards Presentation, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada.

Kjerulf, M.& Clune, L.  (September 2006) Narrative pedagogy in end of life care.  16^th International Conference on Care of the terminally ill. Montreal Canada.

Clune, L.,& Kjerulf, M. (October, 2006) Value –based nursing education: How community partner’s and narratives shape an innovate curriculum in end of life care. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, International Nurse Educator conference. Toronto Canada

Clune, L. (2006 March). Conceptualizing the nursing academy through the geography of place. Faculty of Community Services: Scholarly Research and Creative Activities Awards Presentation, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada.