Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, St. Francis Xavier University (2005)
• Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction, St. Francis Xavier University (2024)

Clinical Background Experience:

• Perinatal Health
• Children’s Health
• Medical Surgical Nursing
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

Course and Clinical Experience:

• N207: Introduction to Human Functioning, Homeostasis and Nursing Therapeutics (Homeostasis and Pharmacology Labs)
• N209: Introduction to Health Assessment and Clinical Nursing Practice (Lab)
• N232: Alterations in Health and Nursing Therapeutics I (Lab)
• N234: Introduction to Nursing Practice (Course Instructor; Nurse Educator; Simulation)
• N238: Perinatal Nursing (Course Instructor)
• N307: Alterations in Health & Nursing Therapeutics II (Lab)
• N308: Acute Care Nursing: Perinatal, Children, MedicalSurgical, and Psychiatric (Course Instructor)
• N309: Care of Persons Experiencing Acute, Episodic, and Life-Threatening Physical, Perinatal, and Mental Illness Across the Life Span (Course Instructor; Nurse Educator; Simulation)
• N409: Exploratory Nursing Practice (Nurse Educator)
• N440: Transition to Nursing Practice: Consolidation (Nurse Educator)

Additional Service:

• Simulation scenario development
• Policy and core document development and revision 
• Course development (N234, N238, N309)
• Various working groups and advisory committees
• Advisor for Advanced Major students

Focused Interests:

• Perinatal Health
• Children’s Health
• Trauma and Violence Informed Care
• Retention of Early Career Nurses in Practice
• Self-Compassion in Nursing and Nursing Education
• Qualitative research
• Social justice
• Nursing education
• Narrative Inquiry