I graduated from Dalhousie University School of Nursing in 1989. My nursing interests and experience have been in adult medical-surgical nursing with a focus on patient education to enhance their ability to self-manage chronic conditions. In 2005, I joined the School of Nursing at Saint Francis Xavier University as a Clinical Educator.  I completed a Masters of Adut Education in 2018. My research focused on adult learning principles in factors that support learning faculty learning as they adopted a new curriculum and shifted to active teaching strategies.  I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on using virtual simulation as an innovative tool to deliver interprofessional education in uni-professional nursing schools. Specifically, to engage nursing students in interprofessional collaboration in which they are active contributing members of the health care team. I am a member of the CAN-Sim Alliance network that supports nurse educators using virtual and in-person simulation and a member of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) My research program intends to support my colleagues in creating and utilizing virtual simulations in nursing programs and develop teaching activities to support Interprofessional collaboration competencies to prepare future graduates to work as members of the interprofessional team. 

With my strong background in medical surgical nursing and chronic diseases, my courses include N232, alterations in Health I, N307, alterations in Health II and N332, advanced therapeutics for care of persons experiencing complex multisystem challenges.