Craig Dale RN PhD CNCC(C) is an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Canada. He is also an Advanced Practice Nurse in Adult Intensive Care (ICU) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Dale’s experiences as a frontline ICU nurse drew his attention to the transformation of routine nursing care into interventions aimed at reducing the growing morbidity, mortality, and costs of critical care. His research explores fundamental aspects of nursing care for ventilator-assisted patients including oral hygiene, pain management, and communication. He has employed qualitative, ethnographic, and mixed methods approaches in both single and multicentre studies. Journals publishing Dale’s research include Qualitative Health Research, Critical Care Medicine, American Journal of Critical Care, Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, Advanced Journal of Nursing, and BMJ Quality & Safety.

University:

University of Toronto

Principal Faculty:

Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

Principal Department/Program:

Nursing

Principal Hospital Appointment:

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Key Publications:

Dale, C.M., Angus, J., Sinuff, T., Rose, L. (In Press). Ethnographic analysis of oral care in the intensive care unit. American Journal of Critical Care. Dale, C., Angus, J., Sinuff, T., Mykhalovskiy, E. (2013). Mouth care for orally intubated patients: A critical ethnographic review of the nursing literature. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 29(5): 266—274. Rose, L., Haslam, L., Dale, C., Knechtel, L., McGillion, M. (2013). Behavioral pain assessment tool for critically ill adults unable to self-report pain. American Journal of Critical Care. 22(3): 246-255. Rose, L., Smith, O., Gelinas, C., Haslam, L., Dale, C., Knechtel, L., Luk, E., Burry, L., Pinto, R., McGillion, M., Mehta, S., Watt-Watson, J. (2012). Critical Care Nurses’ Pain Assessment and Management Practices: a National Survey. American Journal of Critical Care, 21(4): 251-9. Haslam, L., Dale, C., Knechtel, L. and Rose, L. (2011). Pain descriptors for critically ill patients unable to self-report. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 68(5): 1082-9