Ellen Buck-McFadyen

Ellen Buck-McFadyen

RN, PhD

Assistant Professor, Trent/Fleming School of Nursing

Email: [email protected]

Bio

Ellen Buck-McFadyen began her career in community and public health nursing. She completed her PhD in nursing at McMaster University and is currently an assistant professor and the graduate program director in the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing at Trent University. Ellen conducts research in the areas of rural health and the social determinants of health, including the impact of social capital, food insecurity, homelessness, and substance use in the rural context.

Select Publications

Buck-McFadyen, E. (2023). A comparison of three rural emergency shelters: Exploring the experiences and lessons learned in small town Ontario. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. (advance online publication) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10530789.2023.2276592
Buck-McFadyen, E. (2022). Rural homelessness: How the structural and social context of small-town living influences the experience of homelessness. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 113, 407-416. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00625-9
Buck-McFadyen, E. (2022). Competing perspectives on rural homelessness: Findings from a qualitative study in Ontario, Canada. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2003-2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13633
Buck-McFadyen, E., Lee-Popham, S., & White, A. (2021). Pilot program integrating outpatient opioid treatment within a rural primary care setting. Rural & Remote Health, 21. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6413
Hudder, K. M., Buck-McFadyen, E., Bushuk, K., & Regts, M. (2021). A quasi-experimental study comparing virtual simulation to lab-based learning of newborn assessment among nursing students. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 55, 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.04.002
Buck-McFadyen, E., Lee-Popham, S., & White, A. (2020). Integrating services for people who use opioids in a rural primary care setting: The ROOT program. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2020-019
Buck-McFadyen, E., Isaacs, S., Strachan, P., Akhtar-Danesh, N., & Valaitis, R. (2019). How the rural context influences social capital: Experiences in two Ontario communities. Journal of Rural & Community Development, 14(1), 1-18. https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/1624/370
Buck-McFadyen, E., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Isaacs, S., Leipert, B., Strachan, P., & Valaitis, R. (2019). Social capital and self-rated health: A cross-sectional study of the general social survey data comparing rural and urban adults in Ontario. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(2), 424-436. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12662
Buck-McFadyen, E., & MacDonnell, J. A. (2017). Contested practice: Political activism in nursing and implications for nursing education. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2016-0026
MacDonnell, J. A., & Buck-McFadyen, E. (2016). How activism features in the career lives of four generations of Canadian nurses. Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 17(4), 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527154416688669
Buck-McFadyen, E. (2015). Rural food insecurity: When cooking skills, homegrown food, and perseverance aren’t enough to feed a family. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 106(3), e140-e146. https://doi.org/10.17269/cjph.106.4837

Reports

Three Models of Rural Emergency Shelters

Exploring the Participant Experience and Lessons Learned January 2023

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Opioid Crisis

How to Build Back Differently May 2022 Prepared for: Building Back Differently, Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough

Homelessness in North Hastings

Findings From a Qualitative Study on Housing Precarity and Factors That Lead to Rural Homelessness July 2021

Videos

Design for Change Speaker Session #4

Created for the Hackworks Design for Change event in 2023