BSN, MN, PhD
Adjunct Professor
hyndmank@brandonu.ca

Dr. Hyndman is a retired Registered Nurse and a 1972 graduate of the Brandon General Hospital School of Nursing. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN 1987) from the University of Victoria, a Master of Nursing (MN 1993) from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD in Nursing (PhD 2005) from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hyndman’s teaching in the Bachelor of Nursing program included research methods, evidence-based practice, professional nursing practice, leadership and management, quality nursing practice environments, and brief intervention counselling for tobacco reduction. She joined the Brandon University Faculty of Health Studies in 2004 and retired in January 2017. She is currently serving a three-year term as Adjunct Professor.

Dr. Hyndman’s research interests lie in the area of knowledge translation and evidence synthesis. Her dissertation research was entitled An Evaluation of a Dissemination Intervention to Enhance Registered Nurses’ Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines Related to Tobacco Reduction. She established a program of research that involved promoting health and reducing illness through the dissemination and uptake of clinical practice guidelines on tobacco reduction by Registered Nurses and nursing students, in the context of the organizational environments in which they practice.

Dr. Hyndman is the Principal Investigator of a research study entitled The Effectiveness of Tobacco Intervention Education on Health Professional Students’ Practice: A Systematic Review. Dr. Hyndman and a multi-disciplinary team conducted this systematic review to examine the effectiveness of entry-level tobacco-dependence education on health professional student practice in promoting client health and client smoking cessation behaviours. The study was completed in April 2018 and is under peer review.

Dr. Hyndman has published articles in the following journals: Canadian Nurse; Canadian Journal of Nursing Research; Health Policy; Journal of Family Nursing; JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports; and Research and Theory for Nursing Practice. In January 2019 a paper authored by Professor Kathryn Chachula, Mrs. Mary Smith, and Dr. Hyndman entitled Practical Nurses’ Lived Experience of Returning to School: “I don’t think I’ll be the same as before” will be published in the Nurse Educator journal.