Tanya Sanders, RN PhDAssistant Professor | School of Nursing
Email: tsanders@tru.ca
Phone:
250-371-5585
Interests
Nursing and Health Care:
*Community Health and Nursing
*Indigenous Health and Nursing
*Community Health Nursing Education
*Nursing Leadership and Governance
Nursing Practice Expertise:
*Public Health Nursing
*Community Health Nursing
Research Interests
Research and Scholarly Activity
*Community Health Nursing
*Indigenous Health Nursing
*School Health
*Home Care
*Institutional Ethnography
Education
PhD, UVic School of Nursing, 2023
Master of Science in Nursing, UBC, 2005
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, UCC, 1998
Publications
Publications:
Sanders, T., Plamondon, K., Chan, R., & Astle, B. (2025). Chapter 3: History and future of public
health nursing in Canada. In E. Courtney & R. Schofield (Eds.). Public Health Nursing in Canada: A
comprehensive perspective on community and population health. Canadian Scholars Press. ISBN
9781773384924
Boersema, M., Foster, S., Saewyc,, E., & Sanders, T. (2025). Chapter 21: School Health. In E.
Courtney & R. Schofield (Eds.). Public Health Nursing in Canada: A comprehensive perspective on
community and population health. Canadian Scholars Press. ISBN 9781773384924
Sanders, T., Duncan, S., Jakubec, S., & Stajduhar, K. (2025). I feel the pressure of racing the
clock: An institutional ethnography examining home care nursing in Canada. Journal of Advanced Nursing,
http://doi.org/10.1111/jan.70038
Sanders, T. (2025). Chapter 1: Health defined: Health promotion, prevention, and protection. In M.
Luctkar-Flude, J. Tyerman & S. Dames (Eds.). Edelman and Kudzmas Canadian Health Promotion
Throughout the lifespan (2nd ed.). ISBN 9780443127663
Duncan, S.M., & Pepin, J. (2025). An Interview with Community Health Nurse Educator and Researcher
Tanya Sanders. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education, 11(1)
https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1557
Sanders, T., Avanthay Strus, J., Chyzzy, B., Chircop, A., Currie, G., Fillion, F., Mercer Riselli, D.,
Miller, C.A., Schofield, R., & van Daalen-Smith, C. (2024). Understanding the current state of
community health nursing education in Canada: An exploration of the erosion and devaluation of community
health theoretical and practice education in Canadian nursing programs. Quality Advancement in Nursing
Education, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1447
Schofield, R., Chircop, A., Currie, G., Foster, S., Hamilton, J., Kall, D., Luctkar-Flude, M., Riselli,
D. M., Oke, S., Ryan, M. M., Sanders, T., Tam, S., & Tyerman, J. (2023). Developing simulation games
to advance public health nursing competence in baccalaureate education. Public Health Nursing, 40,
288-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13163
Contandriopoulos, D., Stajduhar, K., Sanders, T., Carrier, A., Bitschy, A., & Funk, L. (2021). A
realist review of the home care literature and its blind spots. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical
Practice, https://doi-org.ezproxy.tru.ca/10.1111/jep.13627, 1-10.
Stajduhar, K., & Sanders, T. (2020, July 1). COVID-19 shows support for home care long overdue.
Vancouver Sun.
Sanders, T., O'Mahony, J., Duncan, S., Mahara, S., Pitman, V., Ringstad, K., & Weatherman K. (2019).
Opening the doors for school health An exploration of Public Health Nurses' capacities to engage in
comprehensive school health programs. Public Health Nursing, 36 (3), 348-356.
Presentations (a selection of professional presentations):
Hampton, S. & Sanders, T. (2026, May). Curriculum revision of community health nursing in a 4 year
BScN program. Community Health Nurses of Canada Conference (CHNC 2026), Vancouver, Canada.
Avanthay Strus, J., Savard, J., Kalogirou, M., Hanley, F., Tylynn-Jones, A., Gueye, N.-R., Komar, L.,
Reifferscheid, L., Bailey, S., Sanders, T., & Archibald, A. (2026, May). Strengthening perinatal
resilience in a changing climate: Introducing the Perinatal Planetary Health Assessment Tool (PeriPHAT).
[Fishbowl presentation]. Community Health Nurses of Canada Conference (CHNC 2026), Vancouver,
Canada.
Sanders, T., & Correale, H. (2024, May). Exploring the use of virtual simulation in a community
health nursing theory course. Is the use of virtual simulation games effective in a theory course?
Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Conference. Calgary, Alberta.
Sanders, T., Duncan, S., Jakubec, S., & Stajduhar, K. (2024, April). Compressing care in home care
nursing: The social relations of home care nursing. Community Health Nurses of Canada Conference.
Toronto, ON.
Employment History
Thompson Rivers University
School of Nursing
September 2013 to Present
Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, BC Region, Transfer Nursing Team
*Transfer Nursing Management and Practice Consultant
Thompson Rivers University
*School of Nursing Sessional Instructor
Interior Health Authority
* Public Health Nurse
* Family Health Program Leader-Prevention Services
Xaxli'p First Nation
* Community Health Nurse
Northern Health Authority
* Program Manager Public Health Nursing
* Injury Prevention Coordinator
* Public Health Nurse
Courses Taught
MN Coordinator
Student Advisor & Practice Placement Coordinator Semester 6-8 BScN Program
Coordinator, Aboriginal Pathways to Health Careers Program
NURS 3500 Health & Healing VII, Promoting Community and Society Health
NURS 3510 Nursing Practice VI, Promoting Health of Communities and Society
NURS 4210 Nursing Practice VIII, Transitioning to BScN Graduate
NURS 4300 Professional Practice V, Leadership in Nursing
NURS 4380 Nursing Practice VII, Community Health Nursing Practice
NURS 1730 Health and Healing I, Living Health
NURS 3740 Nursing Practice V, School Health
NURS 1700 Professional Practice I, Foundations to the Discipline of Nursing
NURS 2840 Nursing Practice IV, Introduction to Community Health
CPE III Consolidated Practice
NURS 431 Nursing Practice VI, Nurses Influencing Change
NURS 318 Nursing Practice IV, Child Health
NURS 274/284 Lab
Professional Affiliations
Registered with BCCNP and NNPBC
Member Community Health Nurses of Canada
Member of Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing-Community Health Nursing Educators Committee
Member of International Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research
