Welcome to The Cheryl Spencer Institute of Nursing Research

Towards Better Health and Health Care for All.

The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research is the first nursing center in Israel devoted to research and located within an academic department. The Center’s main goal is to identify, examine and analyze complex issues involving nurses and nursing science, their clinical practice, and their professional evolution, as well as to develop innovative practices and health care delivery systems that increase the quality of health care services provided to the community and to the individual.  To accomplish these lofty goals, the Center is ready to lead broad-based, multidisciplinary, and multi-national studies that strengthen, inform and expand the field of nursing.

Spotlight on a Research

Nidaa Natour, presented part of her dissertation today in the European Association of Palliative Care 13th World Research Congress, held in Barcelona, Spain. The title of her talk is “‘I avoid discussing the end of life’: Barriers of Israeli Arab healthcare providers to palliative care referrals.” Nidaa’s original work focuses on the Israeli Arab society. She explores and investigates perceptions, challenges and cultural and religious beliefs shaping Israeli Arabs’ knowledge on palliative care and their intention to access it at end-of-life as well as well as the relationship between their level of death and dying anxiety and such intention. Her qualitative work also raises some significant ethical issues concerning the relationship between the researcher and her participants, especially when the latter belong to cultural minorities.