Dr Catherine (Cathy) RinghamAssistant Professor (tripartite)
Email: cringham@tru.ca
Phone:
587 582 4333
Interests
Leadership and mentoring in Nursing
Qualitative research, Institutional Ethnography
Critical social perspectives
Health system organization
Neonatal and Maternal/Child nursing
Quality improvement in healthcare
Civility in the workplace
Research Interests
Social organization of NICU nurses work, infant feeding, patient transfer, evidence informed
practice
Integration of Families into the NICU
Cannabis use in the perinatal period
Implementation of new practices in health care
Health systems and institutional processes and their impact on nurses' work and standardization of work
in health care, clinical research, and nursing education
Education
2018-2020 CIHR Health Systems Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017 PhD Nursing, University of Calgary
2009 MN, CIHR Charles Best and Frederick Banting Canadian Graduate Scholarship (fast tracked to PhD),
University of Victoria
2008 BSN, Vancouver Island University
Graduate Diploma, University of Alberta Hospitals School of Nursing
2021 Indigenous Canada MOOC, University of Alberta
2021 PHSA San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Certificate
2020 IHI Basic Certificate in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
2019 Light Touch Project Management for Researchers
Publications
Ringham, C., Benzies, K., McNeil, D. (2022). The work of mothering in the NICU: A critical analysis of
Alberta Family Integrated Care parent journals. Advances in Neonatal Care.
Weisbeck, S., Bright, K.S., Smith, J., Hayden, A., Ginn, C., & Ringham, C. (2021). Perceptions about
cannabis use in the perinatal period: A rapid best-framework qualitative synthesis. Canadian Journal of
Public Health. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00346-x
Ringham, C., MacKinnon, K. (2021). Mothering work and perinatal transfer: An institutional ethnographic
investigation. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 844562119884388. Advance online publication. DOI:
10.1177/0844562119884388
Ringham, C., Rankin, J.M., & Marcellus, L. (2020). The social organization of neonatal nurses'
feeding work. Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 39(5). DOI:
10.1891/0730-0832.39.5.283
Ringham, C. (2020). Musings about COVID-19. IE Newsletter: Institutional Ethnography Division of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, 17(2).
Ringham, C., Rankin, J.M., Premji, S.S., & Marcellus, L. (2019). The social organization of nurses
work with late preterm infants in non-tertiary care settings: Out of the Corners of Nurses Eyes. In S.
Premji (ed.), Late Preterm Infants: A Guide for Nurses, Clinicians and Allied Health Professionals.
Springer, Cham. DOI.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94352-7_5
Premji, S.S., Ringham, C., et al. (2019). The Alternative Facts about Late Preterm Infants: You Mean
There Are Fake Stories About Me? In S. Premji (ed.), Late Preterm Infants: A Guide for Nurses,
Clinicians and Allied Health Professionals. Springer, Cham. DOI.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94352-7_11
Doktorchik, C., Lu, M., Quan, H., Ringham, C., & Eastwood, C. (2019). A qualitative evaluation of
coded data quality from health information manager perspectives. Health Information Management Journal.
DOI: 10.1177/1833358319855031
Soraisham, A., Sheta, A., Ringham, C., et al. (2018). Do preterm infants born outside tertiary perinatal
centre have an impact on neurodevelopmental and growth outcome at 36 months corrected age? Paediatric
& Child Health, 23(Suppl 1), e18-e19. DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxy054.047
Ringham, C. (2012). Narratives and embodied knowing in the NICU. Neonatal Network: The Journal of
Neonatal Nursing, 31(1), 16-19. DOI: 10.1891/0730-0832.31.1.16
Employment History
2021- 2022 Improvement Consultant, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Interior Health
2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Alberta Health Services/University of Calgary
2015-2018 Research Coordinator, Neonatal Follow-up Clinic, Alberta Childrens Hospital
2013-2015 Casual staff nurse, NICU, Alberta Health Services
2006-2013 RN/educator NICU, Nanaimo Regional General Hospital
2008-2013 Sessional Educator, Vancouver Island University
1997-2006 RN/Clinical Resource Nurse NICU, Surrey Memorial Hospital
1984-1989 RN Newborn nursery/NICU/childrens rehab, Edmonton & New Zealand
Courses Taught
NURS 1170 Fall 2022 Communication and Collaboration TRU
Culture and Health: Critical Perspectives (Masters), Athabasca University
Health Sciences: Pathophysiology, year 2 BSN VIU
Health and Healing IV: Health Challenges/Healing Initiatives, year 2 BSN VIU
Professional practice II: Intro to the Discipline of Nursing, year 1 BSN VIU
Consolidated Practice Experience II, Maternal Child Family Health, year 2 BSN VIU
Nursing Practice I: Introduction to Nursing Practice, year 1 BSN VIU
Nursing Practice II: Coming to Know the Client, year 2 BSN VIU
Professional Affiliations
British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
CNeoN(C) - Canadian Nurses Association Certification - Neonatal
