Krista Wilkins, RN, PhD

Contact information

Krista Wilkins
Assistant Professor
Phone: (506) 447-3077
Fax: (506) 453-4519
Email

Education summary

• PhD (Cancer Control), University of Manitoba, 2010
• MN, University of Manitoba, 2005
• BScN, Dalhousie University, 2002
• BSc Hons., Dalhousie University, 1997

Key area(s) of interest/expertise

• Cancer survivorship

• Population health

• Health promotion and wellness

• Communication

• Pediatric pain

• Mixed methods research

Classroom/clinical teaching summary

         Undergraduate Program

• Nurs 1032 Professional Relationships
• Nurs 1225 Nursing and Wellness
• Nurs 3031 Helping Relationships (lab instructor)
  
  Graduate Program
  
• Nurs6016 Evidence Based Nursing

Research, grants & publications summary

Grants:

•     Wilkins, K. L. (2011). Cancer survivors speak about second cancer risk through photographs. Professional Student Research Award for hiring 
      Katelyn Chestnut (4th year undergraduate nursing student), $4251, Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 
•     Wilkins, K. L. (2011). Cancer survivors speak about second cancer risk through photographs. University Research Fund, $6,982, University of
      New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
•     Wilkins, K. L., Parker, L., & Woodgate, R. L. (2008). A mixed method study of second cancer risk among cancer survivors. Phase 3: Cancer 
      survivors’ perceptions of their potential risk for developing a second cancer. Category A Grant, $3847, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS.

Publications:

• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2011). Taking care of second cancer risk. Cancer Nursing. doi:10.1097/NCC.0b013e3182164951
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2011). Life after cancer: Living with risk. Cancer Nursing. doi:10.1097/NCC.0b013e318208f2b3
• Woodgate, R. L., West, C., & Wilkins, K. L., (2011). Family-centered psychosocial care. In C. R. Baggott, K. P. Kelly, D. Fochtman, & G. V. Foley (Eds.), Nursing Care of Children and Adolescents with Cancer and Blood Disorders (Ch. 3, 4th ed.). Glenview, IL: Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses.
• Wilkins, K.L. (2010). A mixed method study of second cancer risk among cancer survivors (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4236
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2008). Secondary prevention of second cancers in cancer survivors. Oncology Nursing Forum, 35(2), E12-E22.
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2008). Designing a mixed methods study in pediatric oncology nursing research. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 25(1), 24-33.
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2007). Supporting siblings through the pediatric bone marrow transplant trajectory: Perspectives of siblings of BMT recipients. Cancer Nursing, 30(5), E29-E34.
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2007). An interruption in family life: Siblings’ lived experience as they transition through the pediatric bone marrow transplant trajectory. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34(2), E1-E8.
• McMillan, D. E., Bell, S., Benson, E. E., Mandzuk, L. L., Matias, D. M., McIvor, M. J., Robertson, J. E., & Wilkins, K. L. (2007). From anxiety to enthusiasm: Facilitating graduate nursing students’ knowledge development in science and theory. Journal of Nursing Education, 42(6), 88-91.
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2006). Transition: A conceptual analysis in the context of siblings of children with cancer. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 21(4), 256-265.
• Wilkins, K. L. & Woodgate, R. L. (2005). A review of qualitative research on the childhood cancer experience from the perspective of siblings: A need to give them a voice. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 22(6), 305-319.

Professional practice, committees, volunteer work summary

• Year 1 Co-coordinator
• Academic Advisor
• Member of several Faculty of Nursing committees, including Ethics Review Committee and Graduate Academic Unit
• Reviewer for Oncology Nursing Forum, Cancer Nursing, Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, and Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology
• Member of the following organizations:
  
  • Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses
  • Beatrice Hunter Research Institute (Associate Researcher)
  • Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology
  • Canadian Task Force on Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
  • Oncology Nursing Society
  • Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Xi Chapter)
• Education consultant for the Canadian Cancer Society New Brunswick’s proposed community-based programming project, A Bilingual Cancer Screening Awareness Program for Low Literacy New Brunswickers, submitted to the Public Health Agency’s 2011 Cancer Program - Community Based Programming Funding Opportunity
• Terry Fox Team Member and chairperson for the Terry Fox Run in Fredericton