Janet McCabe
RN, MEd, PhD
Associate Dean, Nursing
Faculty of Health Sciences
Working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to promote health and well-being with a focus on physical activity and healthy living.
Contact information
Shawenjigewining Hall
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
905.721.8668 ext. 6270
Research topics
- Intellectual disability
- Developmental disability
- Physical activity
- health promotion
- community-engaged research
- health disparities
- rural and remote
- nursing
- social inclusion
Research and expertise
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Background and interests
Dr. McCabe comes to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology from the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, where from 2009 to 2017 she was a faculty member with the northern campus in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and supported the remote nursing programs in the north of Saskatchewan.
Building on a clinical background in both in-patient and out-patient pediatrics, Dr. McCabe’s interest in individuals with disabilities has been shaped by her own experiences of living in both rural and urban environments. She has explored the health of athletes with intellectual disabilities, developed educational opportunities for nursing students focused on health promotion and intellectual disability, and worked with community groups to promote community integration for youth with exceptionalities in rural communities. She has also served as a Clinical Director for Special Olympics Saskatchewan, and led the Health Promotion team for the 2016 Special Olympics National games.
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Publications
For a comprehensive list of publications, please visit Research Gate.
McCabe, J., Butler, L., Berry, L., Exner-Pirot, H., Bullin, C., Bilinski, H., ... Wright, A. (2015). Building the Scholarship of Technology in Health: Extending the Use of Remote Presence Telementoring to Nursing Education. Journal of Technologies and Human Usability, 11(4), 15-28.
Gagnon, M., Jacob, J. D., & McCabe, J. (2015). Locating the qualitative interview: reflecting on space and place in nursing research. Journal of Research in Nursing, 20(3), 203-215. doi: 10.1177/1744987114536571.
Jacob, J. D., Gagnon, M., & McCabe, J. (2014). From distress to illness: A critical analysis of medicalization and its effects in clinical practice. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 21(3), 257-263. doi: 10.1111/jpm.12078.
McCabe, J., & Holmes, D. (2014). Nursing, sexual health, and youth with disabilities: A critical ethnography. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70(1), 77-86. doi: 10.1111/jan.12167.
McCabe, J., & Holmes, D. (2011). Reversing Kristeva’s first instance of abjection: The formation of self reconsidered. Nursing Inquiry, 18(1), 77-83.
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Research collaborators
- Special Olympics Ontario
- Special Olympics Saskatchewan
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Education
Dr. McCabe completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at McMaster University, a Master of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto), and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Ottawa. Her graduate work, focused on the nursing experience of providing sexual health care to youth with disabilities, was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.