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Dr. Franco Carnevale
Pediatric Nursing & Pediatric Critical Care
Research is primarily on pediatric ethics, including ethical dilemmas in pediatric critical care in Canada and in France, moral distress in pediatrics, and ethical concerns regarding the care of children requiring assistive technologies (e.g., a ventilator) at home. Additional research interests include the experience of critically ill children and their families, pain and suffering in children, analytical reasoning in meta-analysis, cultural competence training in the heath sciences, and methodological issues in qualitative research.



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Culture, pediatric critical care, ethics, nursing, pediatrics, qualitative research 
 
 

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Selected publications

Carnevale FA, Macdonald ME, Bluebond-Langner M, McKeever P. Using Participant Observation in Pediatric Health Care Settings: Intellectual Demands and Ethical Solutions. Journal of Child Health Care 12(1):18-32, 2008.
Carnevale FA, Canoui P, Cremer R, Farrell C, Doussau A, Seguin M-J, Hubert P, Leclerc F, Lacroix J. Parental involvement in treatment decisions regarding their critically ill child: A comparative study of France and Quebec. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 8(4):337-342, 2007.
Carnevale FA, Alexander E, Davis M, Rennick JE, Troini R. Daily living with distress and enrichment: The moral experience of families with ventilator assisted children at home. Pediatrics 117(1): e48-60, 2006.
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