Chantal Cara

Chantal Cara, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAN , is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada. She is also a researcher at the Montreal's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and at the Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research for humanistic practices. She received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Colorado, under the directorship of Dr. Jean Watson. For more than 30 years, she has been actively involved in the advancement of Human Caring in...See more

Chantal Cara, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAN , is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada. She is also a researcher at the Montreal's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and at the Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research for humanistic practices. She received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Colorado, under the directorship of Dr. Jean Watson. For more than 30 years, she has been actively involved in the advancement of Human Caring in both French and English communities. She is an international renowned scholar for creating and implementing the French Humanistic Model of Nursing Care and the Relational Caring Inquiry research methodology, both used in several countries. Dr. Cara's teaching, research activities, publications and conferences reflect her disciplinary commitment to disseminate internationally her theory-guided research findings aimed at fostering humanistic nursing practices in the clinical, managerial, and educational domains. Dr. Cara has been actively involved for over 20 years as a member of the International Association of Human Caring, where she holds an Editorial Board position on the International Journal for Human Caring and is a current Board Member. In 2016, she was the first to be attributed the title Distinguished Watson Caring Science Scholar by the Watson Caring Science Institute. In 2018, she was the first in Quebec to be inducted Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. More recently, in 2020, she was invited to become a Charter Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing, representing the French nurses of Canada. See less