RN, BScN, MSN, MHR Michelle Funk BorglandSenior Lecturer | School of Nursing
Email: Mfunk@tru.ca
Phone: 250-371-5994
Interests
- Michelle has been focused for the past 15 years in the areas of palliative and end of life care. Her passion emerged primarily from her experiences in the bone marrow transplant & solid organ transplant units at VGH and UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital.
- She has had clinical experience in Eastern Africa in a fistula hospital and administration of polio vaccine/drops throughout Ethiopia. Additionally, she has been able to travel throughout the globe as a travel/agency nurse.
- Relational Practice
- Challenges with Communication at the end-of-life
- Disenfranchised Grief
- International Nursing
- Qualitative/Quantitative Research
- Nursing Ethics
Research Interests
- Michelle's Master of Science in Nursing obtained at the University of British Columbia focused on researching the integration of arts and humanities into nursing education.
- Most recently, she has graduated from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom with a second Masters degree in Health Research with a Palliative Care focus. The research in relation to the Masters focused on the examination of the phenomena of disenfranchised grief (unrecognized grief) for nurse's who work on acute care units and an unexpected death on the floor.
- She also has a passion to understand the notion of communication and Motor Neuron Disease (ALS, MS, Parkinson's)and caregivers.
Education
- Masters Health Research, Palliative Care, Lancaster University,UK, 2016
- Integrating Palliative Care into Clinical Practice, Harvard Medical School, 2008
- Master of Science in Nursing, University of British Columbia, 2007
- Hospice & Palliative Care Study,Kings College, London, UK, 2005
- BSN, Nursing, University College of the Cariboo, 2003
- RN, Nursing, University College of the Cariboo, 2003
Employment History
- 2004-Current: Senior Lecturer, Thompson Rivers University
- 2004-2016: Registered Nurse, MWS Memorial Hospice Home
Courses Taught
- Healing 3330 Death & Dying, Life & Living
- Nursing 1170 Relational Practice, Self and Others I
- Nursing 2170 Relational Practice, Self and Others II
- Nursing 1740 Nursing Practice Setting I
- Nursing 1840 Nursing Seminar
- Nursing 1840 Nursing Practice Setting Semester II
- Nursing 1740 Nursing Practice Setting Semester II
- Nursing 2740 Nursing Practice Setting Semester III
- Nursing 2840 Nursing Practice Setting Semester IV
- Nursing 4210 Nursing Practice Setting Semester VIII
- Nursing 3600 Nursing Research
- Nursing 3370 Consolidated Nursing Practice CPE III
Professional Affiliations
- Sigma Theata Tau International-Honor Society of Nursing, Xi Ete Chapter of British Columbia
- IAHPC ESSENTIAL PRACTICES PROJECT This projects main objective is to identify the essential practices in palliative care which should be provided by nurses and physicians working in primary care level and are applicable in all areas of the world.
- Member College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia
- Member Association of Registered Nurses of BC
