Dr. Frances Fothergill Bourbonnais is a professor emerita in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences. She joined the School in 1976 and retired in 2011. She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her teaching has focused on caring for patients with life threatening and complex health problems. Her research has centred on pain assessment and management, as well as aspects of intensive care nursing such as continuous renal replacement therapy. Frances’ research has also focused on palliative care, including exploring the related learning needs of nursing students and educators. Frances has supervised numerous thesis students using qualitative research methods, particularly phenomenology. She is a life member of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses.
Professor Fothergill-Bourbonnais is currently not accepting students for thesis supervision.