Tracey Rickards, RN, MN, PhD (c)

Contact information

Tracey Rickards
Senior Instructor
Phone: (506) 447-3412
Fax: (506) 453-4519
Email

Education summary:

• PhD, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in progress since 2007
• Summer Institute – Qualitative Methods, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008
• Master of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, 2005
• Core Component Critical Care of Adults, Ryerson Poly-technical University, 1989
• Bachelor of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, 1986

Key areas of interest/expertise:

• Lesbian health
• LBGT families
• Women’s health
• Addiction
• Community health
• Culture, diversity
• Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS
• Primary health care
• Social justice, human rights

Classroom/clinical teaching summary:

• 2011    Nursing 3065, Community and Population Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, UNB
• 2011    Nursing 3066, Community Clinical Placement
• 2010    Nursing 3065, Community and Population Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, UNB
• 2010    Nursing 3066, Community Clinical Placement
• 2010    Nursing 1032, Professional Relationships, N1235 Clinical Practicum Nursing and Wellness
• 2009    Nursing 1235, Clinical Practicum, Nursing and Wellness
• 2009    Nursing 3065, Community and Population Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, UNB
• 2009    Winter and Fall Term, Nursing 4175, Integrated Nursing Clinical
• 2008    Field Supervisor for 6 Social Work Students, Social Action Project
• 2008    Nursing 3244, Nursing Research, Faculty of Nursing, UNB
• 2007    Nursing 3244, Nursing Research, Faculty of Nursing, UNB

Research grants, publications and awards:

2011-2012 Canadian Nurses Foundation Doctoral Student Award: the Astra Zeneca Rural Scholarship recipient.

Rickards, T., & Wuest, J. (2006). The Process of Losing and Regaining Credibility When     Coming-Out at Mid-Life,
Health Care for Women International. 27(6), 530-547.

Rickards, T. (2005). Confronting the Taken-for-Granted: the Process of Losing and
Regaining Credibility When Coming-Out at Mid-Life. Master of Nursing Thesis, University of New Brunswick.

Professional Practice, Committee, Volunteer Work:

2011    Maritime Representative for the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC)
2010    Member of the CANAC Conference Planning Committee, Fredericton, NB
2009-2010    Past-President, Board of Directors of SIDA/AIDS New Brunswick
2006-2009    President of Board of Directors of SIDA/AIDS New Brunswick
2008    Member of Funds Development Committee, 2nd Annual AIDS NB Red Tie Affair 
2007    Member of Funds Development Committee, 1st  Annual AIDS NB Red Tie Affair