April 27, 2022
Nursing student takes top spot in 2022 草莓污视频导航 Three Minute Thesis competition
- [Trigger warning: this story deals with a topic that may be difficult for some readers.]
You know a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) talk is a good one when you鈥檙e still thinking about it several days later. There鈥檚 no doubt this year鈥檚 草莓污视频导航 3MT champion, Julia St. Louis, will have people thinking about her work for a long time to come.
Opportunity out of difficult circumstances
The Master of Nursing student shared her first-hand experience as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the British Columbia Children鈥檚 Hospital, where St. Louis found herself supporting the family of a newborn who was to live for only a few days. With the help of her nursing colleagues, St. Louis felt supported through the difficult experience but realized that there was an opportunity to give nurses better tools to prepare for these situations.
As a 草莓污视频导航 graduate student, St. Louis is pursuing that opportunity as she explores the experiences of nurses in the NICUs of Canada鈥檚 hospitals. She captures both the scope and gravitas of her work in her winning 3MT talk, Learning Experiences of NICU Nurses in End-of-Life Care.
Nursing is heroic work, even when it seems mundane. When St. Louis found herself helping a family through an end-of-life event, she was guided through it by colleagues. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a situation that happens every day,鈥 says St. Louis. 鈥淣urses know how to care for each other and lean on each other. The idea behind this research is to understand that process of support to make it more systematic.鈥
A Calgary native, St. Louis hopes to follow her master鈥檚 degree with a PhD at 草莓污视频导航, expanding the scope of her research topic.
草莓污视频导航 3MT
The 3MT competition is an annual research communications competition in which graduate students are challenged to condense their research into a three-minute talk for a general audience, while using a single, static slide. The competition is organized each year by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
The 3MT experience is a great way for graduate students to hone their oral communication skills. 鈥淲e are so proud of both the extraordinary research that our students are conducting, and of the remarkable communication skills that they develop at 草莓污视频导航,鈥 says Dr. Robin Yates, dean and vice-provost, graduate studies.
Making advanced research clear to a broad audience is something that many academics struggle with, and our students are developing crucial skills that will help them along their career paths.
For the third consecutive year, the 草莓污视频导航 3MT has taken place entirely online as a pandemic precaution. Competitors recorded videos of themselves delivering their talks without edits, scripts, or props. All 2022 finalist videos are .
Western regionals
St. Louis will represent 草莓污视频导航 at the Western Canadian 3MT regionals on May 6, hosted by the University of Winnipeg. Anyone can , and the public are welcome to vote in the People鈥檚 Choice category.
This year鈥檚 草莓污视频导航 3MT finalists included:
- First Place: Julia St. Louis, master's student in nursing, Learning Experiences of NICU Nurses in End-of-Life Care
- Second Place: Farwa Naqvi, master's student in medicine - community health sciences, What Matters Most to Immigrant Youth Regarding Mental Health in Alberta
- Third Place and People鈥檚 Choice: Katherine Silang, master's student in clinical psychology, Sleep and Postpartum Depression: You're Not You When You're Sleepy
- Daniyya Chaudhry, master's student in medical sciences, Duration of Increased Clotting Ability Following Joint Replacement Surgery
- Tanya Cherppukaran, master's student in medical sciences, Identifying Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
- Anita Michalak, master's student in veterinary medical sciences, The Sorting Hat Ceremony of Caribou in Western Canada
- Sandy Rao, PhD student in social work, The Access Paradox
- Roshanne Sihota, master's student in geography, Gene Editing Solutions for Vector-Borne Disease: Debates in a Canadian Context