Dorolen Wolfs, MSN, RN

Publications:

• Wolfs, D., Jantzen, D., Fowler, M., Musto, L. C., & Reimer-Kirkham, S. (2024). Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society. Nursing Philosophy, 25, e12498. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12498
• Wolfs, D. (2024). Covenantal care: Nursing with God’s love and justice. Journal of Christian Nursing, 41(4).
• Wolfs, D. (2024). How grounded are our ideals? Rethinking nursing’s covenant of care. Journal of Christian Nursing, 41(3), 167-173.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/cnj.0000000000001183

Presentations:

• Wolfs, D., Jantzen, D., Musto, L, Reimer-Kirkham, S., Fowler, M. (September 27, 2023). Challenging existing ideals for an ethic of care: From individual commitments to societal covenant. The 26th International Philosophy of Nursing Society Conference, University of Sydney Australia, September 27-29, 2023.
• Wolfs, D. & Musto, L. (July 10, 2021). Sacred Restorative Justice: Nursing Practice Transformed by Covenant Theology. Nurses Christian Fellowship International: Virtual World Congress for Christian Nurses, Virtual. July 9-11, 2021.
• Musto, L. & Wolfs, D. (July 11, 2021). Check-list? Way of Being? Complexities in Teaching Covenantal Caring to Nursing Students. Nurses Christian Fellowship International: Virtual World Congress for Christian Nurses, Virtual. July 9-11, 2021.

Awards & Honors

• Master of Science Outstanding Graduate Award, TWU (2011)
• B.C. History of Nursing Scholarship Award (2011)
• National Writing Prize, Margaret Allemang Society for the History of Nursing (2011)
• MSN Achievement Award, TWU (2010)

Recent Publications

Thesis:

• Wolfs, D. (2011). Self-Expressed Identity of British Columbian Nurses Who Commenced Their Careers in the WWII and Post-WWII Eras [1938-1953]: A Historical Inquiry. (Unpublished master’s thesis). Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Langley, BC. Canada.

Recent Publications:

• Reimer-Kirkham, S., Sharma, S., Grypma, S., Pesut, B., Sawatzky, R., & Wolfs, D. (2017). The elephant on the table: Religious and ethnic diversity in home health services. Journal of Religion and Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10943-017-0489-7
• Wolfs, D. (2015). [Review of the book Mothering Mennonite, by R. E. Buller & K. Fast (Eds.)]. Roots and Branches: Periodical of the Mennonite Historical Society of BC, 4, 23-24.
• Wolfs, D., & Grypma, S. (2013). In Retrospect: Selflessness and nursing. Journal of Christian Nursing, 30(3).
• Grypma, S., Wolfs, D., & Reimer-Kirkham, S. (2012). Returning home: Historical influences in home healthcare in Canada. Home Healthcare Nurse, 30(8). 453-460. DOI:10.1097/NHH.0b013e3182650142
• Wolfs, D. (2012). (Extra)ordinary leaders: Nurses who have carved out an influence (Part II). Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing (summer newsletter), 1-6.
• Wolfs, D. (2012) (Extra)ordinary leaders: Nurses who have carved out an influence (Part I). Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing (spring newsletter), 1-9.

Conferences:

• Wolfs, D. The good, the bad, and the ugly: A reflection on selflessness in nursing. (October 31-November 2, 2016). Paper presented at the 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing and Health Care International Conference, University of Sydney, Australia.
• Wolfs, D. Cultivating generosity: A reflection on selflessness in nursing. (November 6, 2015). Paper presented at the Faith & Nursing Symposium, Langley, Canada.
• Wolfs, D., Chan, E., Wang, S., Harding, W., Shearer, K., & Sawatzky, R. (November 6, 2015) Collaborative knowledge synthesis: How multiple perspectives shaped a project along the way. Poster presented at the Faith & Nursing Symposium, Langley, Canada.
• Wang, S., Sawatzky, R., Chan, E.C.K., Wolfs, D., Harding, W., on behalf of the PROMs and PREMs Knowledge Synthesis team, (September 27-29, 2015).  Patient Reported Outcome/Experience Measures for Elderly Patients in Acute Care.  Poster presented at the 3rd Annual TVN Conference, Toronto, ON.
• Chan, E.K.H., Sawatzky, R., Gadermann, A. M., PREMs PROMs Knowledge Synthesis Team. (October, 2015). PROMs and PREMs for Elderly Patients in Acute Care and Their Families: An EMPRO Evaluation. Paper presented at the 22^nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Vancouver, Canada.
• Chan, E. K. H., Sawatzky, R., Dixon, D., Wolfs, D. M., Gadermann, A. M., & PROM-PREM Knowledge Synthesis Team. (October, 2014, accepted).  Bibliometric analysis of PROMs and PREMs for elderly patients in acute care.  Paper to be presented at the 21^st Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Berlin, Germany.   
• Wolfs, D., Chan, E., Wang, S., Harding, W., Shearer, K., & Sawatzky, R. (September 21-23, 2014). Collaborative knowledge synthesis: How multiple perspectives shaped a project along the way. Poster presented at the 2^nd Annual Conference on Improving Care for the Frail Elderly, Toronto, Canada.
• Sawatzky, R., Chan, E. K. H., Dixon, D., Wolfs, D. M., Gadermann, A. M., Cohen, S. R., & PROM-PREM Knowledge Synthesis Team. (submitted).  Patient- and family-reported outcome and experience measures for seriously ill elderly patients.  Abstract submitted to the 20^th International Congress on Palliative Care, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  
• Reimer-Kirkham, S., Cochrane, M., & Wolfs, D. (May, 2012). Across the threshold: Religious, spiritual, and cultural plurality in home health. Concurrent paper, Faith & Nursing Symposium, Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C.
• Cochrane, M., Reimer-Kirkham, S., Edmond, A., Wolfs, D., Grypma, S., Pesut, B., & Sawatzky, R. (February, 2012). Across the threshold: Religious, spiritual, and cultural plurality in home health. Ethel Johns Research Forum, Vancouver, B.C.
• Wolfs, D. (March 31, 2011). (Extra)ordinary Leaders: Nurses Who Have Carved Out an Influence. ‘Engendered Lives’ Graduate Student Symposium; Gender Studies Institute, Trinity Western University.
• Cochrane, M., Wolfs, D., & Reimer-Kirkham, S. (October 2010). Ethical spaces: Considering methodological implications of conducting research in home health settings. International Qualitative Research Methodologies, Vancouver, B.C.