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David Kenneth Wright is the academic lead for palliative care and nursing ethics at the Centre for Research on Health and Nursing. He holds specialty certification in hospice palliative care nursing from the Canadian Nurses Association, and engaged in clinical practice in hospital-based palliative care as well as at a residential hospice. In 2021, he co-founded the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association. His current research projects focus on grief and grief literacy, nursing ethics and narrative methodologies.

Professor Wright is not currently accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• Nursing ethics
• Death, dying and grief
• Palliative and end-of-life care
• Qualitative research

Additional publications via 

Invited

• Wright, DK, & Pesut, B. (2023). Traversing landscapes of dying and grief: A palliative care ethic for nursing at the end of life. Chapter 16 in R. Starzomski, J. L. Storch & P. Rodney (Eds.), . University of Victoria Libraries.
• McMillan, K., Wright, DK, McPherson, C., Ma, K*., & Bitzas, V. (2021). . Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 8, 1-12.

Peer-reviewed

• Sofronas, M*., Carnevale, FA., Macdonald, ME., Bitzas, V., & Wright, DK. (2024). “. Nursing Inquiry.
• Wright, DK, Ma, G., Charlebois, K., Gimmig, K., & Hodgson, L. (2023). “. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 25(2), 82-89.
• Wright, DK., Chan, L., Fishman, J., & Macdonald, ME. (2021). “. Social Science & Medicine, 289:114366.
• Grassau, P., Stinchcombe, A., Thomas, R., & Wright, DK. (2021). . Palliative Care and Social Practice, 15:26323524211042630.
• Sorensen, S*., Sofronas, M*., Hudson, H*., & Wright, DK. (2021). . Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 32(1), 18-26.
• Sofronas, M*., & Wright, DK. (2021). . International Journal of Nursing Studies, 117.
• Wright, DK., Gastmans, C., Vandyk, A., & Dierckx de Casterlé, B. (2020). . Nursing Ethics, 27(3), 868-886.
• Ma, K.*, Wright, DK., Vanderspank-Wright, B., Peterson, W., & Carnevale, F.A. (2020). . Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 34(3), 269-285.
• Skinner, E*., Jacob, JD., Vanderspank-Wright, B., & Wright, DK. (2020). . Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 7, 1-7.
• Hudson, H*., Perron, A., & Wright, DK. (2019). . Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 1(2), 4-16.
• Hudson, H*., & Wright, DK. (2019). . Advances in Nursing Science, 42(4), 341-357.
• Sofronas, M*., Wright, D.K., & Carnevale, F.A. (2018). . Nursing Forum, 53, 406-415.
• Wright, DK., Brajtman, S., & Macdonald, ME. (2018). . Nursing Inquiry, 25(3), e12234.

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