2022 Graduate Student Grant Recipient

Kristin Petrovic Kristin is a Doctor of Education in Distance Education student and a faculty member and curriculum committee co-lead in the Bachelor of Nursing program at Athabasca University. As an educator, Kristin aims to increase accessibility and remove barriers using open pedagogical approaches in digital distance nursing education. Beth Perry PhD Supervisor. Athabasca University…

2021 Education Research Grant Recipients

Lorraine Thirsk PhD Primary Investigator Dr. Lorraine Thirsk is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University. She has been a registered nurse in Alberta for over 20 years, and her program of research focuses on improving family nursing practices in adult populations facing serious illness. Venise Bryan PhD Co-investigator Dr.…

2021 Graduate Student Grant Recipient

Jessica Mulli, MN Jessica Mulli is a Master of Nursing thesis student, and undergraduate clinical and simulation educator in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. Jessica is passionate about helping students make connections in their learning and believes that facilitating reflective practice during simulation can improve knowledge translation and safe, high quality,…

2020 Graduate Student Grant Recipient

Amelia Chauvette. A Focused Ethnography to Explore Nursing Faculty Experiences in Integrating Informatics Tools to Support Undergraduate Students’ Learning and the Development of Informatics Competencies Nurses working in today’s health care environment are expected to use a variety of digital/informatics tools to improve patient care outcomes.

2020 Education Innovation Grant Recipients

Lorelli Nowell, Sandra Davidson and Eloise Carr. Healthcare Grand Challenge as an Education Innovation Today’s complex healthcare environments are challenging higher education institutions to advance nursing science, innovation, and impact to create substantive change to nursing practice and the development of future nursing leaders.

2020 Education Research Grant Recipients

Jennifer Stephens and Kate Leslie. Exploring Barriers to Integrating Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Content in Canadian Baccalaureate Nursing Programs: A Knowledge Synthesis Nurses are in the unique position of being both actors and change agents within the health sector around issues of climate change and environmental responsibility.

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