Lenora Marcellus, Ph.D.

Contact Information
Leader
Perinatal and Women's Health Program Development
Vancouver Island Health Authority

IMPART Postdoctoral Fellow
Sept 2004-August 2005

Focus of IMPART Research: Foster family environments and infants with prenatal substance exposure

Academic Information

Ph.D. (2007)
Nursing
University of Alberta

M.N. (1993)
Nursing
University of Washington

B.Sc. (1990)
Nursing
University of Victoria

Publications

• Marcellus, L. (in press). Looking back and thinking ahead about substance misuse: 50 years of practice in the Canadian Nurse. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
• Marcellus, L. (2007). Universal meconium testing: Clinical and ethical implications. Advances in Neonatal Care, 7 (4), 207-214.
• Marcellus, L. (2006). Looking at families in nursing research: Strategies for study design. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 29 (4), 225-245.
• Marcellus, L. (2007). Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Reconstructing the evidence. Neonatal Network, 22( 4), 32-39.
• Drummond, J., & Marcellus, L.(2005). Making a difference: Using a social determinants of health approach to strengthen the role of maternal infant health nursing. Neonatal, Paediatric and Child Health, 8 (1), 5-11.
• Marcellus, L. (2005). The ethics of relation: Moral tension for the public health nurse working with child protection clients. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 51 (4), 414-420.
• Marcellus, L. (2005). Grounded theory methodology and maternal-infant research and practice. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 34 (3), 349-357.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Are we missing anything? Pursuing research on attrition. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 36 (3), 82-98.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Feminist ethics must inform practice: Interventions with perinatal substance users. Health Care for Women International, 25 (8), 730-742.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Foster parents who care for infants with prenatal drug exposure: Support during transition from NICU to home. Neonatal Network, 23 (6), 33-42.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Tiny cripples and the sunshine of life: 15 years of children's nursing at Vancouver Island's Queen Alexandra Solarium 1927- 1942. Journal of Pediatric Nursing.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Developmental evaluation of the Safe Babies Project: Application of the COECA model. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 27 (2), 107-119.
• Marcellus, L. (2004). Determination of positional skin-surface pressures in premature infants. Neonatal Network, 23 (1), 25-30.
• Drummond, J., Marcellus, L. , McDonald, L., Kysela, G., & Shank, M. (2003). Beyond the pilot study: Revision of a family problem-solving intervention. Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 31 (2), 182-198.
• Marcellus, L. (2003). Critical social and medical constructions of perinatal substance abuse: Truth in the making. Journal of Family Nursing, 9 (4), 438-452.
• Marcellus, L. (2002). Care of substance-exposed infants: The current state of practice in Canadian hospitals. Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, 16 (3), 51-68.
• Marcellus, L. (2001). The infant with Pierre Robin sequence: Implications for nursing practice. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 16(1), 23-34.
• Marcellus, L. (2000). The Safe Babies project. Canadian Nurse, 96(10), 22-26.

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