Flavia Cionca, MSN, RN

Assistant Professor of Nursing
Micah 6:8 encapsulates the essence of my career: “what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (ESV). These words have motivated me throughout my career as a registered nurse, researcher, and educator.

Flavia Cionca’s scholarship has been characterized by the desire to uphold social justice and promote health equity for people experiencing poverty and other marginalizing circumstances. She is interested in exploring how poverty intersects with diverse health and social experiences. Flavia is driven by her faith and consistently seeks ways to integrate a health equity lens into her teaching and research, having a keen interest in uncovering and challenging the conditions that lead to inequitable health outcomes.

Flavia seeks to inspire a spirit of inquiry in her students and to communicate the importance of lifelong learning to them. She strives to tailor her teaching to students’ unique learning needs and thoroughly enjoys learning alongside them throughout their academic journey.

Flavia is thrilled to be able to pursue research, teaching, and scholarship, and to share her faith and passion for social justice, within a vibrant community of colleagues and students at TWU.

  • Master of Science in Nursing, Trinity Western University; 2017 (top GPA)
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Trinity Western University; 2014 (with Great Distinction)

Expertise

Flavia Cionca’s expertise centers on the areas of health equity, poverty, and the social determinants of health. She has explored the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in health research.

Research Methodology: critical ethnography; interpretive description; knowledge synthesis; mixed methods.

Recent Publications

Refereed Publications
 

  • Cionca, F. C., Varcoe, C., & Brown, H. (2023). Critical social justice as radical praxis to inform nursing research and action: Poverty research as an exemplar [Manuscript submitted for publication]. School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
  • Bughiu, F. C., Astle, B. J., & Reimer-Kirkham, S. M. (2018). Upholding social justice in nursing: Toward a transformational learning approach in nursing education. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. School of Nursing, Trinity Western University
  • Bughiu, F. C. (2017). Upholding social justice in nursing: The value of educational experiences (Master’s thesis). Retrieved from http://twu.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/twu%3A372...
     

Non-Refereed Publications
 

  • Bughiu, F. C. (2017). WNRCASN conference (February, 2017) oral presentation testimonial in the “Take 5”: Trinity Western University School of Nursing newsletter. The "Take 5" newsletter is the online medium through which the SON communicates student scholarship.
  • Bughiu, F. C. (2016). CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s Scholarship Testimonial.

Affiliations & Memberships

  • BCCNM – Registered Nurse, British Columbia

  • NURS 123 Clinical Skills II: Health Assessment
  • NURS  213 Clinical Practice: Adult Health I
  • NURS 224 Evidence-Informed Practice
  • NURS 227 Planetary & Global Health
  • NURS 520 Knowledge Synthesis
  • NURS 530 Nursing Inquiry I (Qualitative Research)