Associate Professor
Research Area: Advanced Practice Nursing/Nurse Practitioners. Research funded through the MoHLTC Primary Health Care Transition Fund
Degrees
- Doctorate (Ph.D.), Clinical Health Sciences, McMaster, ON, Canada, 2005 Grad
- Diploma, Nursing Nurse Practitioner, Ryerson University, ON, Canada, 1996
- Master's, Nursing, D'Youville College, USA, 1991
- Bachelor's, Nursing, University of Windsor, ON, Canada, 1977
Board Activities
- Chair- Regional Infection Control Network (RICN) Steering Committee
- Windsor Essex County Department of Public Health Nurse Practitioner Advisory Panel
- CMHA Primary Care Advisory Committee
- City of Windsor Family Health Team - Board of Directors/Founding Member
Funded Research
- MoHLTC PHC Funding
- Health Services Research Unit
Instrument Development
- FABNP (Facilitators & Barriers to APN Integration Instrument)
- PSNP (Patient Satisfaction with NP care tool)
Publications
Chapters in Books
- "Future Directions: Expanding Community Health Practice", Thrasher, C., in Leesberg-Stamler, L. and Yiu, L., Community Health Nursing in Canada. (Pearson Education Canada, 2005)
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Thrasher, C., Purc-Stephenson, R. "Nurse Practitioners and Canadians EDs." Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 9: 275-281 pp, 2007.
- MacFarlane, E., Milliken, J., Ouellet, L., Thrasher, C., Gartner, J., Harder, N. "Overcoming the challenges of providing clinical education." Canadian Nurse, 103: 18-22 pp, May 2007.
- Thrasher, C., Purc-Stephenson, R. "Patient Satisfaction with Nurse Practitioner Care in Emergency Departments." Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 2008 .
- Beanlands, H.; Horsburgh, M.E.; Fox, S.; Howe, A.; Locking-Cusolito, H.; Pare, K.; Thrasher, C. "Care-giving by family and friends of adults receiving dialysis." Nephrology Nursing Journal, 32: 621-631 pp, 2005
- Worster, Andrew, Sardo, A., Thrasher, C. (2005). "Understanding the Role of NPs in Canada." Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, 10 (2): 89-94 pp, 2005.
- Thrasher, C. "The Primary Care NP: Advocate for Self Care." Journal of the Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 113-117 pp, 2002.
Commissioned Research Reports
- Thrasher, C., DiCenso, A., MoHLTC Final Report: Integration of NPs in EDs, Hard Copy, MoHLTC Web, MoHLTC PHC, 2005, Published, Pages 1-36.
- National Strategy on Clinical / Practice Education, Hard copy, Web site, CASN (Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing), 2005, Published.
- Milliken, J., Thrasher, C. et. al., Task Force on Clinical Education: Final Report, Web site; Hard copy, Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing(CASN), 2005, Published, Pages 1-78.