Amy MacDonnell

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Amy MacDonnell

Nurse Educator
Department
Campus Location
Camden Rm 253
Phone
902-867-4692
Biography

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