Andrea Raynak

Andrea Raynak is the Director, Nursing Practice at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Within her role, she advances the practice of nursing organizationally and creates and maintain programs and practices that support, promote and evaluate nursing practice. She facilitates the integration of research into practice and further, progresses a learning culture. Her research interests include identifying knowledge/health system gaps and proposing sustainable solutions to enhance the nursing profession and further, guide organizational and academic policy. She also works as a Contract Lecturer for Lakehead University. Andrea began the PhD Health Sciences program in 2020. Her research involves examining nurse’s attitudes towards patients with substance use difficulties in the hospital setting in order to propose pragmatic approaches to care for this patient population. Her work is supervised by Dr. Mushquash and supported by a CIHR Doctoral Student Research Award. In her free time Andrea enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, reading fiction novels and running!

Publications:

Raynak, A. & Wood, B. (2021). The clinical nurse specialist role and its relevance to vascular access: a Canadian perspective. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access, 26(2), 1-6

Raynak, A., Paquet, F., Marchionni, C., Lok, V., Gauthier, M. & Frati, F. (2020). Registered nurses knowledge on routine care and maintenance of adult vascular access devices: a scoping review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 00:1-17

Vandenhouten, C., Owens, A., Hunter, M. & Raynak, A. (2020). Peripheral Intravenous Education in North American Nursing Schools: Call to Action. Journal of Nursing Education, 59(9), 493-500

Broadhurst, D., Cernusca, C., Cook, C., Hill, J., Naayer, K., Paquet, F., Raynak, A., (2019). CVAA occlusion management guideline for central venous access devices (CVADs). Canadian Vascular Access Association, second edition, Vascular Access, 13, supplement 1

Hunter, M., Vandenhouten, C., Raynak, A., Owens, A. & Thompson, J. (2018). Addressing the Silence: A need for Peripheral Intravenous Education in North America. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access, 23(3), 157-165