Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio Research Lectureship
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
MSU-Ostrander Auditorium I Free and open to all
Please join the School of Nursing, in collaboration with the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society, for this lecture. This event is free and open to all.
Resilience in Crisis: Learning Through Stories to Transform Healthcare Challenges into Opportunities
Dr. Sandra Richardson
Our 2025 Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio College of Allied Health and Nursing Lecture Series speaker is Dr. Sandra Richardson from New Zealand on Tuesday, March 18th from 2:00 – 4:00 in Ostrander Auditorium. Dr. Richardson has been an integral part of the International Writing group facilitated by the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society. Her presentation will be appropriate for students in many professional disciplines. If you have interest and anticipate that students may attend, please let us know so we will have ample cookies and lemonade.
Abstract
Globally healthcare faces challenges; the ability to respond to constantly changing situations is an essential element in the caregiver and professional’s toolkit of responses. Recognizing the capacity to learn from the experiences of others, through narratives and shared story telling has been shown as an effective means of education. Research and knowledge is generated in many ways, and in order to be effective it needs to be relevant. Dr. Richardson will share stories of having worked through traumatic events, including a major earthquake and a mass shooting, as well as recognizing the crises resulting from changing health care resources, staffing shortages and resulting impact on individuals and the healthcare system. Her message is clear, we need to find better ways to understand and generate the knowledge gained from these events. This presentation is intended to share the highlights of a range of real life examples, from research and clinical practice, where the opportunity to share ‘learnings’ has the capacity to make a difference.
Brief Bio
Dr. Sandra Richardson has been an emergency nurse for more than 30 years, as a clinician, an educator and a researcher. Her PhD was focused on understanding ED overcrowding and so-called ‘inappropriate attenders’. She has worked as a Senior Lecturer at Otago and Canterbury Universities, teaching and supervising post graduate nursing students at Diploma, Masters and Doctorate level, as well as teaching graduate entry to nursing Master of Health Science papers and post graduate bioethics papers. Sandy continues to work two days a week as Nurse Researcher in the Emergency Department, with an autonomous capacity to initiate research, as well as work collaboratively with others in the multidisciplinary team.
Her areas of research relate to violence and aggression in the health setting and its impact on staff in the ED workplace, nursing responses to disaster situations, cultural safety, advanced nursing practice, family nursing, ethics and ensuring that the nursing voice is heard. Current interests include the advocacy of professional nursing roles, development of emergency nursing knowledge and skills framework, and she is currently undertaking a mixed methods research project looking at the impact of the March 15th, 2019 mass shooting in Canterbury on first responders and health workers in the ED.
Recommended Articles and Resources
Richardson, S. K., Ardagh, M. W., Morrison, R., & Grainger, P. C. (2019). Management of the aggressive emergency department patient: Non-pharmacological perspectives and evidence base. Open Access Emergency Medicine, 11, 271-290. doi:10.2147/OAEM.S192884
Richardson, S., Ardagh, M., Grainger, P., Robinson, V. (2013). A moment in time: Emergency nurses and the Canterbury earthquake. International Nursing Review 60(2) 188-195.
Ardagh, M., Richardson, S., Robinson, V., Than, M., Gee, P., Henderson, S., …Deely, J. (2012). The initial health-system response to the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, in February, 2011. The Lancet 379(9831) 2109 – 2115.
About Drs. Narciso and Luth Tenorio
