Dot Pringle
Dr. Pringle is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. Dr. Pringle’s
clinical and research interests are in the care and quality of life of disabled and impaired older people both in the community and in institutions. She is involved in a number of studies related to the quality of daily life of older impaired individuals in institutional settings. She is the past-chair of the Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute of Aging and is a member of the Gerontological Advisory Council of Veterans Affairs Canada. She is the Executive Lead of the Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC) initiative of the Ontario MOHLTC that is implementing the electronic collection of a set of nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. These are assessed by nurses on admission and discharge of all patients in acute care, home care, long term care and chronic care and are available in summary charts to nurses at all times and to nurse managers and executives monthly. The data are abstracted onto administrative databases for province-wide planning and research purposes.