Sabrina Gill

BSN, MHLP

Profile

Education Background

MHLP – Clinical Education, University of British Columbia

BSN, University College of the Cariboo

Specialized Academic Certifications

• Mindful Practice Workshop: Enhancing Quality of Care, Quality of Caring, and Resilience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, US
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Teacher Qualification Training, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
• Practice Education for Health and Human Services, Continuing Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Mental Health Specialty, The University College of the Cariboo

Honours & Awards

• Excellence in Nursing Practice Award – BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital
• Provincial Health Service Authority (PHSA) Plus Team Award for BC Children’s Youth Advisory Committee
• Health Standard Organization Leading Practice Award (HSO) for Innovative Leading Practice for DrugCocktails.ca: A Resource for Youth and Healthcare Professionals
• British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital Mindfulness Professional Development Grant
• Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Team Award with BC Children’s Hospital Gender Team
• Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Team – Honorable Mention with Stabilization Care Team for Youth Opioid Overdose Response Policy
• Provincial Health Service Authority (PHSA) Plus Team Award for Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents
• Award of Excellence in Education with Distinction Team Award for work on Forum: Youth to Youth Violence: Working Together to Care for Youth and Families

Area of Research

Research Interests

• Mindfulness & Self-Care for Health Care Providers
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Organizational Leadership
• Anti-Racism Health Care Providers
• Youth Engagement & Advocacy
• Youth Development & Resilience
• Pediatric Pain

Research

Co-Principal Investigator for BC Children’s Hospital, University of Ottawa and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario: “Evaluating DrugCocktails.net: A Website for Youth and Health Care Professionals Focusing on Interactions between Prescription and Illicit Drugs”

Research Group at BC Children’s Hospital on Project: “To pilot the use of the Adolescent Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) in a Canadian Children's Hospital and Exploring Outcomes in Referral Pathways.”

Current Projects

Slyvia Think Tank Member (STT) -The STT is comprised of a self-funded, diverse, intergenerational and interdisciplinary group of academics, health care and social service practitioners, and community leaders involved in social justice-related advocacy work

Research Group: Multi-Partner Approach to Place Based Literacy to Address Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (BCCH/UBC)

Research project on the impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) during COVID.

Research Group: Self and Collective Care Series: An Intersectional Exploration of Interventions to Support Undergraduate Nursing Student Wellbeing (UBC School of Nursing)

Working group with Dr. Nassim Adhami and Dr. Elisabeth Bailey, Cheryl Sheryl Zentner as a co investigator.

Research Group: South Asian Nursing History (UBC School of Nursing)

Working group with Dr. Geertje Boschma, Dr. Lydia Wytenbroek, and Ranjit Dhari in a research project reflecting on the history of South Asian Nurses in British Columbia.

Publications

Dhaliwal, R., Scott, A., Gill, S., Calibaba, B., Kennedy, M., & Jassemi, S. (2023). 63. Partnering with Patients with Living and Lived Experience of Eating Disorders to Improve Inpatient Care on an Acute Pediatric Medicine Unit...2023 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) Annual Meeting. Collaborations in Adolescent Health: Improving Clinical Care Through Translational Science, March 7-10, 2023, Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Chicago, Illinois. Journal of Adolescent Health, 72(3), S39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.11.084

Lam, P.-Y., Warf, C., Whitehouse, S., Yeo, M., Deevska, M. M., Gill, S., Bartnik, J., & Warn, D. (2012). 141. To Pilot the Use of the Adolescent Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) in a Canadian Children’s Hospital and Exploring Outcomes in Referral Pathways. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50(2), S81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.10.215

Teaching

Current Teaching

VSP Nursing Package C– Strategies to Manage Stress in Everyday Life

Guest Lecture – UBC MEDD 421- Foundations of Medical Practice III

Guest Lecture – NURS 180 – Stress and Strategies to Promote Well Being

Past Teaching

UBC NURS 424 – Clinical Instructor – Mental Health