Wendy Austin

Wendy Austin

Wendy Austin, PhD is Professor Emeritus with the Faculty of Nursing and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, Wendy’s approach to health ethics is relational ethics. She held a Canada Research Chair in Relational Ethics in Health Care from 2003-2013 and takes an interdisciplinary approach to study ethical issues in health care, including from a global perspective. Dissemination of research includes in book form (​Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow) and through film (​Just Keep Breathing ​ re: moral distress of PICU staff). Recent teaching includes interdisciplinary graduate courses, Healthcare Ethics ​ and ​Research Ethics. Her clinical expertise is in mental health nursing; she is an editor of ​Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice; its 5​th​ edition coming in 2022. She has served on The Canadian Nurses Association’s Ethics Committee.