Kianda Mauch

A 1998 graduate of Durham College’s Registered Nursing program, Kianda Mauch has spent the past 21 years in the nursing field working in the area of pain management. Currently an advanced practice nurse (APN)/clinical nurse specialist with the Pain Services division of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, she is working to change the culture of pain management across the organization through the hospital’s Interprofessional Pain Council of which she is the chair. The committee is working to standardize pain management to ensure all staff manage it appropriately. In addition to her role at St. Michael’s Hospital, she was an APN at Toronto Western Hospital working in Acute Pain Service; worked in the Medical Surgical Resource Support Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut; was a registered nurse (RN) at Bridgeport Hospital in Fairfield County, Connecticut; and was an RN at Lakeridge Health Oshawa in Ontario. From a post-secondary perspective, Mauch has taught in the areas of nursing and pain at both the college and university levels including holding a faculty instructor appointment with the Faculty of Nursing at Ryerson University. Currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing, in 2007 she also received more than $55,000 in joint funding from the Canadian Nurses Foundation and St. Michael’s Hospital for her research into a pain assessment tool for non-verbal patients. Her volunteer work includes offering support and special needs accommodations at her home and cottage for individuals with disabilities and providing RN monitoring and support for a community weight loss and cardiac rehabilitation program.