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.

Prof. Efrat Dagan
Prof. Efrat Dagan
Prof. Tamar Shochat
Prof. Tamar ShochatHead, Department of Nursing
Prof. Maayan Agmon
Prof. Maayan Agmon
Prof. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Prof. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Prof. Anat Drach-Zahavy
Prof. Anat Drach-Zahavy
Prof. Hadass Goldblatt
Prof. Hadass Goldblatt
Prof. Michal Granot
Prof. Michal Granot
Prof. Dorit Pud
Prof. Dorit Pud Head, The human experimental pain research laboratory
Dr. Sara Shachaf
Dr. Sara Shachaf
Prof. Efrat Shadmi
Prof. Efrat Shadmi
Dr. Einav Srulovici
Dr. Einav Srulovici
Prof. Roi Treister
Prof. Roi TreisterDirector, CSINR
Prof. Cheryl Zlotnick
Prof. Cheryl Zlotnick
Dr. Galia Golan Sprinzak
Dr. Galia Golan SprinzakThe CSINR’s Administrator
Prof. Daniel Sperling
Prof. Daniel Sperling
Dr. Nadya Golfenshtein
Dr. Nadya Golfenshtein
Prof. Yori Gidron
Prof. Yori Gidron

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.