Sayra Cristancho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayra Cristancho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cristancho |
| SIGNATURE | CRISTANCHO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8738-2130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adapting to scarcity
Rural healthcare practitioners face persistent challenges such as limited staffing, geographic isolation, and broad scopes of responsibility. These conditions require constant adaptation to ensure care delivery. This study introduces plasticity as a conceptual lens for understanding how rural healthcare teams collectively navigate scarcity through flexible role and task shifting. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, we conducted 19 intervie…
When systems set the limits of supervision
When I say … lore
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
“Maybe that's the landscape that's coming?”
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has provoked critical questions about what it means to write and how to teach it. Research exploring writing pedagogy post-genAI reflects tensions between deep concerns and hopeful visions. This qualitative study explored the experiences of language and literacy educators (n=39) teaching writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts in Canada. These educators offered insights into the valu…
When words fail us
If instruments could talk
verbal exchanges of information. It requires a thoughtful combination of verbal and non-verbal cues since, in some circumstances, verbal communication in healthcare may be impossible, unfavourable or ineffective. The semiotics literature suggests that effective non-verbal communication goes beyond body language and gestures. It also includes the use of objects (i.e. traces) to transmit a message. We call this trace-based communication (TBC). In t…
Mobilizing community engagement for crisis response
The findings of this study indicate the importance of community engagement in strengthening emergency planning and response for future public health emergencies
Set Up to Fail? Barriers Impeding Resident Communication Training in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Residents, Responsibility, and Error
Exploring the process of care for people who inject drugs in hospital settings
In recent years, hospitals have experienced alarming increases in admissions of people who inject drugs (PWID), which present unique challenges to the care process. Untangling the complexity of care can be difficult due to interactions that occur between human and non-human elements including hospital systems, policy, technology, time, and space. The purpose of this study was to explore relations between social and material elements within the ac…
Professional identity struggle and ideology
Understanding palliative care learning
Palliative care is an emotionally evocative domain of care, the complexities of which are not well understood. Palliative care has been described as a cultural shift in healthcare away from disease focused interventions toward a holistic and patient centered approach. Concerns have arisen around a lack of preparation for this approach to care following formal education programs across a variety of health professions. Demographics in many areas of…
Exploring patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about competent health advocacy
On collective self‐healing and traces
Journey into uncertainty
Beyond summative decision making
(Re)Grounding grounded theory
The debate over what counts as theory has dominated methodological conversations in grounded theory research for decades. Four of the schools of thought in that debate - Glaserian, Straussian, Charmazian, and Clarkeian - hold different assumptions about what theory is and how it is made. The first two schools understand theory as an abstraction that exactingly accounts for exceptions. The second two schools understand theory as a process of descr…
Mapping a surgeon's becoming with Deleuze
The process of 'becoming' shapes professionals' capability, confidence and identity. In contrast to notions of rugged individuals who achieve definitive status as experts, 'becoming' is a continuous emergent condition. It is often a process of struggle, and is always interminably linked to its environs and relationships. 'Becoming' is a way of understanding the tensions of everyday practice and knowledge of professionals. In this paper, we explor…
Seeing in Different Ways
In this article we explore the value of using visual data in a study on medical expert judgment to better understand medical experts' conceptualizations of complex, challenging situations. We use examples from a larger study on medical expertise in which rich pictures and interviews were used. The three stories presented in this article belong to experts in the domain of surgery. The stories are used to show the ways in which rich pictures can ca…
(Re)Grounding grounded theory
The debate over what counts as theory has dominated methodological conversations in grounded theory research for decades. Four of the schools of thought in that debate - Glaserian, Straussian, Charmazian, and Clarkeian - hold different assumptions about what theory is and how it is made. The first two schools understand theory as an abstraction that exactingly accounts for exceptions. The second two schools understand theory as a process of descr…
Seeing in Different Ways
In this article we explore the value of using visual data in a study on medical expert judgment to better understand medical experts' conceptualizations of complex, challenging situations. We use examples from a larger study on medical expertise in which rich pictures and interviews were used. The three stories presented in this article belong to experts in the domain of surgery. The stories are used to show the ways in which rich pictures can ca…
Mapping a surgeon's becoming with Deleuze
The process of 'becoming' shapes professionals' capability, confidence and identity. In contrast to notions of rugged individuals who achieve definitive status as experts, 'becoming' is a continuous emergent condition. It is often a process of struggle, and is always interminably linked to its environs and relationships. 'Becoming' is a way of understanding the tensions of everyday practice and knowledge of professionals. In this paper, we explor…
Mapping a surgeon's becoming with Deleuze
The process of 'becoming' shapes professionals' capability, confidence and identity. In contrast to notions of rugged individuals who achieve definitive status as experts, 'becoming' is a continuous emergent condition. It is often a process of struggle, and is always interminably linked to its environs and relationships. 'Becoming' is a way of understanding the tensions of everyday practice and knowledge of professionals. In this paper, we explor…
Seeing in Different Ways
In this article we explore the value of using visual data in a study on medical expert judgment to better understand medical experts' conceptualizations of complex, challenging situations. We use examples from a larger study on medical expertise in which rich pictures and interviews were used. The three stories presented in this article belong to experts in the domain of surgery. The stories are used to show the ways in which rich pictures can ca…
(Re)Grounding grounded theory
The debate over what counts as theory has dominated methodological conversations in grounded theory research for decades. Four of the schools of thought in that debate - Glaserian, Straussian, Charmazian, and Clarkeian - hold different assumptions about what theory is and how it is made. The first two schools understand theory as an abstraction that exactingly accounts for exceptions. The second two schools understand theory as a process of descr…
Journey into uncertainty
Beyond summative decision making
Exploring patients’ and physicians’ perspectives about competent health advocacy
On collective self‐healing and traces
Understanding palliative care learning
Palliative care is an emotionally evocative domain of care, the complexities of which are not well understood. Palliative care has been described as a cultural shift in healthcare away from disease focused interventions toward a holistic and patient centered approach. Concerns have arisen around a lack of preparation for this approach to care following formal education programs across a variety of health professions. Demographics in many areas of…
Set Up to Fail? Barriers Impeding Resident Communication Training in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Residents, Responsibility, and Error
Exploring the process of care for people who inject drugs in hospital settings
In recent years, hospitals have experienced alarming increases in admissions of people who inject drugs (PWID), which present unique challenges to the care process. Untangling the complexity of care can be difficult due to interactions that occur between human and non-human elements including hospital systems, policy, technology, time, and space. The purpose of this study was to explore relations between social and material elements within the ac…
Professional identity struggle and ideology
If instruments could talk
verbal exchanges of information. It requires a thoughtful combination of verbal and non-verbal cues since, in some circumstances, verbal communication in healthcare may be impossible, unfavourable or ineffective. The semiotics literature suggests that effective non-verbal communication goes beyond body language and gestures. It also includes the use of objects (i.e. traces) to transmit a message. We call this trace-based communication (TBC). In t…
Mobilizing community engagement for crisis response
The findings of this study indicate the importance of community engagement in strengthening emergency planning and response for future public health emergencies
When words fail us
Adapting to scarcity
Rural healthcare practitioners face persistent challenges such as limited staffing, geographic isolation, and broad scopes of responsibility. These conditions require constant adaptation to ensure care delivery. This study introduces plasticity as a conceptual lens for understanding how rural healthcare teams collectively navigate scarcity through flexible role and task shifting. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, we conducted 19 intervie…
When systems set the limits of supervision
When I say … lore
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
“Maybe that's the landscape that's coming?”
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) has provoked critical questions about what it means to write and how to teach it. Research exploring writing pedagogy post-genAI reflects tensions between deep concerns and hopeful visions. This qualitative study explored the experiences of language and literacy educators (n=39) teaching writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts in Canada. These educators offered insights into the valu…
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