Sionnach Hendra
Sionnach is an Assistant Professor in the Rankin School of Nursing. Her clinical practice is grounded in perinatal nursing and public health. Her program of research seeks to understand how social justice is currently taught in undergraduate nursing curricula and build resources, tools and educator capacity to integrate social justice into the classroom and clinical experiences.
Education
2013 MScN University of Ottawa
2008 Perinatal Nursing Specialty BCIT
2005 BScN St Francis Xavier University
Courses Taught
N408- Advanced population and public health.
N233- Caring for families in transition: Childbearing and childrearing years.
Research Interests
- Social justice
- Nursing education
- Experiential learning in community and public health
- Affective teaching and learning
- Community-engaged pedagogy
- Service learning
- Qualitative research
- Critical social theory
Book Chapter:
McGibbon, E., Bailey, A. & Hendra, S. (2025). Violence, societal structures, and health. In Dosani, Etowa, and van Daalen Smith, (Eds). Community Health Nursing in Canada, 6th Edition. Toronto: Pearson, Canada.
