Biography:

Jennifer Lapum is a poet and an arts-based and narrative researcher. She is an RN with extensive clinical background in critical care nursing particularly in intensive care (including CVICU). Her program of research is focused on promoting humanistic health care practices and policies in the context of technologically-driven systems of care. This involves understanding how patients, nurses and other health care providers are influenced by a technological discourse with particular interest in the cardiovascular realm. Linked into this is understanding how humanistic discourse enters into our practices and how it is constrained and facilitated in the current health care environments.

In addition, her research involves engaging methodological approaches that facilitate deep understanding of human experiences. Her focus is on experimenting with the arts as an epistemological stance and method of research dissemination. Consequently, her work is qualitatively informed with expertise in narrative and arts-informed approaches including poetry and photographic images.

Her most recent project is a CIHR funded art exhibition “The 7,024^th Patient.” It is a 1739 square foot installation that is over 9 feet in height and composed of poetry and photographic images that captures the raw, emotional and embodied experiences of patients in open-heart surgery and recovery. For more information on the exhibition, access the following short video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcSmsRW21g

Foundations of her teaching philosophy are rooted in “understanding” and student engagement. This philosophy is the driving force to her teaching methods that include creative and artistic methods, embedded critical thinking, integrative learning and student focused approaches. She was nominated by her students for the TVOntario 2010 Best Lecturer Competition.

Her work has been presented internationally and published in Social Science & Medicine, Qualitative Health Research, Heart & Lung, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Qualitative Inquiry, CMAJ, CJCN, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Canadian Journal of Cardiology and European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions.

Please contact Jennifer if you are interested in networking about arts-informed and/or narrative research projects. If you are a student looking for supervision in these areas, please email her.

Publications and Presentations:

Poetic Excerpt and Photographic Image from “The 7,024^th Patient”

The Absent 24 Hours spotlights the gap in patients’ memory regarding the operation after they count backwards and lose consciousness. Their stories capture what they imagine occurred during this lost time.

                       I count backwards

          by the time I get to nine

I’m gone

Recent and Significant Journal Publications

Lapum, J., Hamzavi, N., Veljkovic, K., Mohamed, Z., Pettinato, A., Silver, S., & Taylor, E. (in press). A  performative and poetical narrative of critical social theory in nursing education:  An ending and  threshold of social justice. Nursing Philosophy.

Lapum, J. (2011). Death – A Poem. Qualitative Inquiry, 17 (8), 723-724

Lapum, J. (in press). The Un-beautiful mind. Journal of Poetry Therapy.

Timmermans, K., Rukholm, E., Michel, I., Seto Nielsen, L., Lapum, J., Nolan, R., & Angus, J. (2011). Accessing heart health: A Northern Experience. Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 11 (1),17-36.

Lapum, J., Angus, J., Peter, E., & Watt-Watson, J. (2011). Patients’ discharge experiences: Returning home following open-heart surgery. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care, 40 (3), 226-235.

Lapum, J., Angus, J., Peter, E., & Watt-Watson, J. (2010). Patients’ narrative accounts of open-heart surgery and recovery: Authorial voice of technology. Social Science & Medicine, 70, p. 754-762. 

Angus, J. Rukholm, E., Michel, I., Larocque, S. Seto, L., Lapum, J., Timmermans, K., Chevrier-     Lamoureux, R., & Nolan, R. (2009). Context and cardiovascular risk modification in two regions of Ontario: A photo elicitation study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 6(9), p. 2481-2499.   

Lapum, J. (2008). The Performative Manifestation of a Research Identity: Storying the Journey Through Poetry [46 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2),Art. 39, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802392.   

Lapum, J. (2008). Residuals of death. Qualitative Inquiry, 14(2), 233-234.   

Angus, J., Rukholm, E., St. Onge, R., Michel, I., Nolan, R., Lapum, J., & Evans, S. (2007). “Habitus”, stress and the body: The everyday production of health and cardiovascular risk. Qualitative Health Research, 17 (8), p. 1088-1102.    

Lapum, J. (2006). Until my time of death. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 174 (12), 1749-1750.

Lapum, J.  (2006).  Patency of arterial catheters with heparinized solutions versus non-heparinized Solutions: A Review of the Literature. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 16 (2), 64-70.

Lapum, J. (2005). Women’s experiences of heart surgery recovery: A poetical approach to research dissemination. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 15 (3), 12-20.   

Leung, D., & Lapum, J. (2005). A poetical journey: The evolution of a research question. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4 (3), 1-17.  

Angus, J., Evans, S., Lapum, J., Rukholm, E., St. Onge, R., Nolan, R. & Michel, I. (2005). “Sneaky disease”: The body and health knowledge for people at risk for coronary heart disease in Ontario, Canada. Social Science and Medicine, 60 (9), 2117-2128.   

Book Chapters

Lapum, J., Chen, S., Peterson, J., Leung, D., Andrews, G. (2008). The place of nursing in primary  health care (pp. 131-148). In V. Crooks and G. Andrews (Eds.) In Primary Health Care:   People, Practice, Place. Ashgate.

Art Exhibitions

Lapum, J., Church, K., Matthews David, A., Yau, T., & Ruttosha, P. (June 2011). “The 7,024^th Patient Art Exhibition:  Stories of Open-heart Surgery and Recovery. Toronto General Hospital. Funded by CIHR Planning, Meetings and Dissemination Event Grant.

Lapum, J., Church, K., Matthews David, A., Yau, T., & Ruttosha, P. (May 2011). “The 7,024^th Patient Art Exhibition:  Stories of Open-heart Surgery and Recovery. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Funded by CIHR Planning, Meetings and Dissemination Event Grant.

Media

CBC Metro morning with Matt Galloway (aired on Thursday June 16, 2011). Patient Art with Dr. Jennifer Lapum. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2011/06/16/patient-art/

Council of Ontario Universities (June 15, 2011). With poems and images, Ryerson nursing professor demonstrates experiences of heart surgery patients. Retrieved from http://www.cou.on.ca/news/media-releases/university/with-poems-and-images,-ryerson-nursing-professor-d.aspx

Hospital News. Article by Antoinette Mercurio. Print version June 2011, p. 2. Online version retrieved from http://www.hospitalnews.com/content/magazines/Jun11/HNJune2011_lowres.pdf

University Health Network. Art exhibit tells stories of heart patients. Retrieved from http://www.uhn.ca/applications/iNews/ViewStory.aspx?s_id=1465

The Toronto Star. Open-heart surgery from the heart (article by Katie Daubs). Print version June 16, 2011, p. 3. Online version retrieved from http://www.thestar.com///news/article/1009491--open-heart-surgery-from-the-heart

Letter to the editor (in response), June 19, 2011. Rhonda Seidman-Carlson, Chief Nurse Execuitve, The Scarborough Hospital. Retrieved from http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1011024--quality-that-cannot-be-measured

RNAO (July/August, 2011). Open-heart surgery inspires poetry. RNAO Journal, pg. 8.