Lenora Marcellus
- Affiliation: Alberta
Lenora Marcellus, RN, MN, has practised nursing for more than twenty
years in acute care and community maternal-infant settings. She serves
as Leader of Perinatal Program Development for the Vancouver Island
Health Authority and instructs in the Safe Babies Program, which educates
and supports foster families who care for infants with prenatal substance
exposure. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Nursing
at the University of Alberta and at the time of writing is a research fellow
with the Gender and Addiction Research Training Program at the British
Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health.
Books by Lenora Marcellus
With Child
Substance Use During Pregnancy, A Woman-Centred Approach
Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Lenora Marcellus
Drug use is among the behaviours that are associated with or a consequence of poverty. The contributors to this volume propose that those who provide services for pregnant drugusing women must recognize that care of women with social problems that affect pregnancy outcome should be approached in the same way as care for women with medical problems that have obstetric consequences. This book provides practitioners and researchers with valuable information about maternal drug use, best practices and… (more information)