Lorelli S. Nowell

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Calgary

BACKGROUND Professionals across caring disciplines have played a significant role in the development of virtual care, which utilizes remote technologies to offer support and services from a distance. As virtual care becomes increasingly essential, instructors must ensure students are equipped with both interpersonal abilities and digital competenci...

Faculty development programs are an important part of career building and professional fulfillment for health professionals. A framework that addresses the centrality of fulfillment at work for diverse medical careers is lacking, yet necessary, for faculty development programs to have a comprehensive positive impact. A conceptual framework for facu...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine graduate student perspectives on the common and unique roles peer mentors and supervisors play in supporting student success and wellbeing during their program. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design involving semistructured interviews with 62 thesis-based masters and doctoral stud...

Introduction Health care educators in the practice setting are responsible for providing education to frontline staff and require knowledge and skills to interact with interprofessional health care providers and teach content in an effective way. Interprofessional education opportunities for health care educators in the practice setting may be help...

Background Caring profession students require skills and competencies to proficiently use information technologies for providing high-quality and effective care. However, there is a gap in exploring the perceptions and experiences of students in developing virtual care skills within online environments. Objective This study aims to better understa...

BACKGROUND Educators in caring professions are required to teach students the skills and competencies needed to provide high-quality and effective care. However, there is a gap in evidence exploring educators' perceptions and experiences of teaching caring professions students about virtual caring skills within online environments. OBJECTIVE to be...

Background Professionals in caring disciplines have been pivotal in advancing virtual care, which leverages remote technologies to deliver effective support and services from a distance. Educators in these caring professions are required to teach students the skills and competencies needed to provide high-quality and effective care. As virtual care...

Viewing research designs from a methodological standpoint and a philosophical lens or worldview can amplify how the doing of research may elicit meaning from people's experiences. Notably, doing research is more than a stepped approach or formal plan, as research questions are invariably tied to various philosophical perspectives and their underlyi...

The purpose of this guide is threefold: • To provide a practical and applied resource for instructors in higher education that focuses on SaP, drawing on Teaching Academy members’ wisdom from research-informed practice • To reflect diverse contexts, approaches and perspectives in higher education • To offer recommendations, considerations and impli...

There has been a call to amplify the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and expand its reach by engaging with audiences outside the academy. In this paper, we share our journey in crossing disciplinary boundaries and creating a SoTL-informed infographic for public consumption. As the field of SoTL continues to evolve, infographics hold tre...

Background An often‐hidden element in healthcare students' education is the pedagogy of public involvement, yet public participation can result in deep learning for students with positive impacts on the public who participate. Objective This article aimed to synthesize published literature reviews that described the impact of public participation...

Background Health research partnership approaches have grown in popularity over the past decade, but the systematic evaluation of their outcomes and impacts has not kept equal pace. Identifying partnership assessment tools and key partnership characteristics is needed to advance partnerships, partnership measurement, and the assessment of their out...

BACKGROUND Caring professions students require skills and competencies to proficiently use information technologies for providing high-quality and effective care. However, there is a gap in exploring the perceptions and experiences of students in developing virtual caring skills within online environments. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to to explore...

In this paper, we emphasize the value of an online community of practice (OCoP) for bringing together faculty from across disciplines to share and leverage their diverse expertise and perspectives. We examine the transition of an interdisciplinary community of practice through the pivot into an online environment for engagement, communication, and...

We report a concept analysis of the term interprofessional socialization, conducted using the Walker and Avant approach. Our literature search resulted in 27 publications with meaningful insights regarding interprofessional socialization, published between 1994-2022. We identified five defining attributes of interprofessional socialization: (a) lea...

Aim: The aim of this integrative review was to examine the theoretical, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods literature focused on how nursing students transfer learning from theory courses into clinical practice. Background: As nursing curriculum aligns with the growing body of nursing knowledge, nursing students continue to develop thei...

As the number of international students in higher education continues to grow, so do concerns regarding systemic obstacles, discrimination, and social isolation that can impede students’ academic success. Peer mentorship has been shown to support graduate students through academic socialization and achievement in higher education (Lorenzetti et al....

Objective To identify and assess the globally available valid, reliable and acceptable tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts. Methods We searched Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL Plus and PsycINFO from origin to 2 June 2021, without limits, using an a priori strategy and registered protocol. We screened citations indepen...

Aims To synthesize the empirical and theoretical literature on change fatigue in nursing, including how change fatigue affects nurses, the nursing profession and strategies to prevent and overcome it. Background Change fatigue refers to the overwhelming feelings of stress, exhaustion and burnout associated with rapid and continuous change across h...

Background Accurate, consistent assessment of outcomes and impacts is challenging in the health research partnerships domain. Increased focus on tool quality, including conceptual, psychometric and pragmatic characteristics, could improve the quantification, measurement and reporting partnership outcomes and impacts. This cascading review was under...

As mixed methods research approaches become increasingly more common, it is imperative they are conducted in a thoughtful and rigorous manner to yield useful results. While researchers have begun to explore the use of various qualitative research methodologies in mixed methods research, there is a gap in literature discussing the philosophical cong...

Background While distractions and interruptions are leading causes of errors during medication preparation, most nursing students are not taught how to manage distractions in a highly-interruptive environment. To help prepare nursing students to manage distractions and interruptions in clinical practice, we developed, implemented, and evaluated a m...

Aim A discussion of the philosophy of pragmatism and how it can underpin and integrate nursing education, practice, research and policy across the nursing profession. Background Although the concepts of plurality, truth, fallibilism, subjectivity and meliorism have been discussed across foundational philosophical literature, the relation of these...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered caring professions education and the range of technological competencies needed to thrive in today’s digital economy. We aimed to identify the various technologies and design strategies being used to help students develop and translate professional caring competencies into remote working environments. Eight...

11022 Background: Despite extensive literature on the value of mentorship in academic medicine, little evidence exists to inform mentorship practices in MO. In 2021, the Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists (CAMO) piloted a national, 6-month virtual mentorship program consisting of 2 group mentoring events and additional 1-on-1 mentoring act...

While cohesive teams are essential to advancing interdisciplinary research, few frameworks exist to guide team development. In this article, eight academic women adopt a participatory process of inter-relational reflexivity to reflect upon our interdisciplinary research and propose a best-practice framework for sustained effectiveness of interdisci...

While cohesive teams are essential to advancing interdisciplinary research, few frameworks exist to guide team development. In this article, eight academic women adopt a participatory process of inter-relational reflexivity to reflect upon our interdisciplinary research and propose a best-practice framework for sustained effectiveness of interdisci...

Aim To explore undergraduate nursing students' understanding of fundamental care and identify educational leadership opportunities to deepen students' understanding of fundamental care concepts. Design Sequential‐explanatory mixed methods study. Methods We conducted a cross sectional survey (n = 202) and focus groups (n = 24) to explore undergrad...

Universities are places to promote the wellbeing of people who learn, work, and live within them. This article reports on an innovative, holistic, and embedded wellness dog program that was developed by the Faculty of Nursing to support the wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff. The innovation included a collaborative partnership between two fa...

Background: Nurse distractions and interruptions are leading causes of errors in nursing practice, with medication preparation being the most-interrupted activity. Methods: For this reason, nursing faculty at a public research university in the Great Lakes Region of the United States developed and implemented a medication preparation simulation to...

In this chapter, we offer a detailed account of KT’s processes to extend how SoTL practitioners think about their work, particularly SoTL’s mandate to “go public.” The parallel goals and practices of SoTL and KT suggest that applying the latter’s framework to extend the reach of SoTL would not be an arbitrary exercise but instead a new tool for sys...

As higher education institutions and the people who learn, work, and live within them, continue to face challenges, it is critical to foster safe, inclusive, and respectful cultures of learning and growth. Numerous mentorship models can be meaningfully integrated into campus culture to support professional and personal learning and development acro...

Nursing leaders are increasingly required to create and implement innovative solutions to address challenges in the workplace. However, the present-day education of graduate nurses may not adequately prepare them for entrepreneurial approaches to problem solving required in today's complex healthcare environments. To fill this gap, we designed, imp...

Literature reviews have recently gained increased recognition for their value in advancing knowledge and decision making across disciplines. While interdisciplinary mixed-methods systematic reviews create opportunities to synthesize knowledge and insights from across disciplines, it is important to highlight the challenges, successes, and theoretic...

This guide provides a framework, resources, and activities for individuals to develop their philosophy statements and dossiers in post-secondary settings. Identity is informed by your cultural positioning, direct experiences, personal values, beliefs, and ethics. The dossier, as a reflective narrative, provides an opportunity for you to generate de...

Background Reflective practice is an essential step to learning in high-fidelity simulation, yet, reflection-in-action is an often overlooked yet important opportunity to support student learning. Objectives To explore and describe the lived experience of undergraduate nursing simulation facilitators use of reflection-in-action during high-fidelit...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic provoked widespread disruption to nurse educators work both within higher educational institutions and in clinical practice learning environments. In this study, we explored the experiences of nurse educators in academic and clinical settings during COVID-19 and the impact it has had on their work. Methods: We con...

Purpose Many postdoctoral scholars are seeking professional learning and development (PLD) opportunities to prepare for diverse careers, roles and responsibilities. This paper aims to develop an evidence-informed framework for PLD of postdoctoral scholars that speaks to these changing career paths. Design/methodology/approach This paper used an in...

Aim The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Background There is a growing body of knowledge about the experiences of clinical nurses during COVID-19. However, there is less evidence about the experiences of nurse managers during the pandemic. Methods Eight nurse managers, from ac...

Introduction: Caring professions attend to the health, educational and social needs of society rather than its material needs. Caring professionals are a vital part of the world’s response to COVID-19, yet the global pandemic and its aftermath have significantly changed the ways in which care is provided. The rapid pivot to remote care, where the e...

Aims and Objectives: To explore clinical nurses’ process of coping during COVID-19 and develop a grounded theory that can be used by leaders to support clinical nurses during a disaster. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked widespread disruption to clinical nurses’ work. It is important to understand clinical nurses’ processes of coping d...

In this paper, we describe how academic colleagues from different fields used a theoretical framework for authentic assessment as the starting point for meaningful conversations about our teaching practices. We re-envision Hutchings’ (2000) taxonomy of SoTL questions as a fluid conversational cycle rather than a system of classification. Using the...

Purpose Student mental well-being is a matter of increasing concern on university campuses around the world. Social, psychological, academic and career aspects of graduate learning are enriched through peer mentorship. Peer-mentoring experiences and the impacts of these relationships on the mental well-being of graduate students remain underexplore...

In this paper, we describe how academic colleagues from different fields used a theoretical framework for authentic assessment as the starting point for meaningful conversations about our teaching practices. We re-envision Hutchings' (2000) taxonomy of SoTL questions as a fluid conversational cycle rather than a system of classification. Using the...

Objectives Our primary aim was to complete an in-depth analysis of the concept of “reflection-in-action” during high-fidelity simulation. We sought to identify what is currently known about the topic and establish a strong foundation for theory development regarding cultivating reflection-in-action during high-fidelity simulation. Design Walker an...

Feedback is an expected and essential part of academic work; however, giving and receiving feedback often causes angst and distress, an aspect not often addressed. To foster conversations about feedback for teaching development, we developed an interactive event designed to explore and practice giving and receiving feedback. A mixed-methods pre-pos...

Grand challenges are complex problems that are common to much of society, affect large populations, and may have several possible solutions. Incorporation of grand challenges into higher education courses can facilitate the development of collaborative problem-solving skills while providing relevant and practical opportunities to experience the dyn...

The objective of this study was to explore the role of peer mentorship in facilitating graduate student resiliency, knowledge acquisition, and development of academic competencies. We conducted a qualitative case study, using in-person interview data from sixty-two students recruited from four professional faculties (Education, Medicine, Nursing, a...

Background: Medical residents may experience burnout during their training, and a lack of social support. This can impact their overall wellbeing and ability to master key professional competencies. We explored, in this study, the extent to which peer mentorship promotes psychosocial wellbeing and the development of professional competencies in med...

Purpose This study aims to explore postdoctoral scholars’ experiences and perceptions of a teaching certificate program and identify how they use the knowledge and skills developed through the certificate program to improve their teaching practices. Design/methodology/approach In this case study, the authors explored postdoctoral scholars’ experie...

Postdoctoral scholars pursue diverse career paths requiring broad skill sets; however, little is known about postdoctoral scholars' perspectives about their professional learning, and development needs. The objective of this mixed-methods study was to identify current professional learning and development opportunities used by postdoctoral scholars...

In response to a growing need for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to strengthen their teaching and learning skills, our university recently established innovative certificate programs that purposely incorporate experiential learning opportunities for deeper growth and development. Drawing on prior research and local needs assessments, w...

Medical residents are students enrolled in postgraduate specialization training in hospitals or clinics. They can experience stress and burnout, particularly during their first year of training. Researchers have demonstrated that peers in higher education settings can provide one another with emotional, motivational, and psychological supports nece...

Postdoctoral scholars are increasingly pursuing diverse career paths requiring broad skill sets. To create comprehensive professional learning and development strategies for postdoctoral scholars, an understanding of current approaches is required. This literature review is a systematic examination and synthesis of the current literature describing...

While researchers have suggested that mentorship positively affects academic and learning outcomes in higher education, little is known about the impact of peer mentoring on graduate students’ academic experiences. We conducted a systematic review to explore the impact of peer mentorship on graduate students’ learning, and formal approaches to enha...

The Teaching Academy is a community of instructors who have received University of Calgary Teaching Awards in recognition of their exemplary contributions to teaching and learning. The Teaching Academy operates as a working group of on-the-ground professionals who are interested in supporting the development of individual and collective teaching pr...

Scoping reviews offer a rigorous and systematic approach to examining the range and nature of literature in a particular field, identifying the existing literature and highlighting gaps where further exploration is required (Arksey & 0'Malley, 2005; Levac, Colquhoun, & O'Brien, 2010). In this article, we share our scoping review protocol—the explic...

Academics who find themselves institutionally situated in a new or non-traditional discipline with the expectation for scholarship will benefit from the perspectives and learnings of a diverse team of educational developers who share a common scholarship goal. We position ourselves as belonging to a microculture (Mårtensson & Roxå, 2016), as we sha...

Background: Transitions in care between emergency medical services (EMS) providers and emergency department (ED) nurses are critical to patient care and safety. However, interactions between EMS providers and ED nurses can be problematic with communication gaps and have not been extensively studied. The aim of this review was to examine (1) factors...

Postdoctoral scholars are important members of the research community who make substantial contributions to research productivity. Three postdoctoral scholars at a Teaching and Learning Institute in Canada engaged in collaborative self-study to explore our initial experiences as postdoctoral scholars in the emerging fields of academic development a...

While many hospitals have transitioned from traditional maternity care to a single-room maternity model, little is known about how healthcare providers' practice differs between the models. This mixed-methods study compared healthcare providers' job satisfaction and team collaboration between traditional and single-room maternity care and explored...

Background A growing number of postdoctoral scholars are following diverse career paths that require broad skill sets to ensure success. Yet, most postdoctoral professional learning and development initiatives are intended for academic careers and seldom include professional skills needed to succeed in non-academic settings. Given that fewer than 2...

Increasing numbers of postdoctoral scholars are pursuing diverse career paths that require broad skill sets to ensure success. However, most postdoctoral professional learning and development initiatives are designed for academic careers and rarely include professional skills needed to flourish in nonacademic settings. The purpose of this systemati...

Objective: Around the world nursing education institutions have been calling for mentorship; however, little is known about nursing faculty member’s perspective on if and why mentorship is important and at what career stages it is most valuable. The purpose of this study is to describe the nursing faculty member’s perspectives on mentorship in Cana...

The Postdoctoral Scholar Certificate in University Teaching & Learning is a flexible and comprehensive program that helps postdoctoral scholars develop a reflective, evidence-based, and theoretically informed approach to teaching and learning. In this certificate program postdoctoral scholars explore cutting-edge teaching and learning practices, ex...

Introduction: Safe and efficient handovers between emergency medical services (EMS) practitioners and emergency nurses are vital as poor transitions may lead to loss of information and place patients at risk for adverse events. We conducted a mixed methods systematic review to a) examine factors that disrupt or improve handovers from EMS practition...

This guide provides a robust resource for creating teaching dossiers and philosophy statements. It starts with an overview of a literature-informed framework for developing teaching expertise, and then describes how to create teaching and educational leadership philosophy statements. The final sections focus on creating and evaluating teaching doss...

Background Effective and efficient transitions in care between emergency medical services (EMS) practitioners and emergency department (ED) nurses is vital as poor clinical transitions in care may place patients at increased risk for adverse events such as delay in treatment for time sensitive conditions (e.g., myocardial infarction) or worsening o...

As qualitative research becomes increasingly recognized and valued, it is imperative that it is conducted in a rigorous and methodical manner to yield meaningful and useful results. To be accepted as trustworthy, qualitative researchers must demonstrate that data analysis has been conducted in a precise, consistent, and exhaustive manner through re...

Background: Many medical residents lack ready access to social and emotional supports that enable them to successfully cope with the challenges associated with medical residency. This absence of support has been shown to lead to high levels of burnout, decreased mental wellbeing, and difficulty mastering professional competencies in this populatio...

Background Engaging stakeholders from varied organizational levels is essential to successful healthcare quality improvement. However, engagement has been hard to achieve and to measure across diverse stakeholders. Further, current implementation science models provide little clarity about what engagement means, despite its importance.The aim of th...

Objective: Nursing education institutions globally have called for mentorship to help address the nursing faculty shortage; however, little is known about the current state of mentorship or the barriers and facilitators for implementing mentorship programs in Canadian nursing schools. The objective of this study is to identify the current state of...

Objective: Nursing education institutions globally have issued calls for mentorship to address the nursing faculty shortage; however, little is known about the current state of mentorship for faculty members in Canadian schools of nursing. The purpose of this study is to describe the current state of mentorship in Canadian schools of nursing and ex...

Background: Nursing education institutions have issued recurring, global calls for mentorship; however, evidence-based program development guidance is scarce. To date, there are no comprehensive syntheses of current mentorship models, objectives, and program components to inform mentorship program development in nursing academia. The purpose of th...

Review objective: The objective of this review is to explore how registered nurses working in acute care settings experience organizational change.

Aims: To report on a mixed methods systematic review that critically examines the evidence for mentorship in nursing academia. Background: Nursing education institutions globally have issued calls for mentorship. There is emerging evidence to support the value of mentorship in other disciplines, but the extant state of the evidence in nursing ac...

AimThis paper presents a discussion of the role of the philosophy of pragmatism in the integrated knowledge translation approach to research.DesignCritical inquiry is used to discuss bringing pragmatic philosophy and the integrated knowledge translation approach to research together to advance nursing knowledge.Methods This paper draws from the lit...

Background Mentorship is perceived as vital to attracting, training, and retaining nursing faculty members and to maintaining high-quality education programs. While there is emerging evidence to support the value of mentorship in academic medicine, the extant state of the evidence for mentorship in nursing academia has not been established. We desc...

Background The nursing workforce and nursing education demographic trends reinforce the urgency to cultivate future nursing leaders, educators, and mentors. The changing realities of health care environments, involving crowded student placements, overtaxed clinical mentors and preceptors, and inexperienced staff, hamper student learning and profess...

Clinical experiences are educational and fulfilling for both students and faculty; however, challenges arise in providing students with a variety of experiences where the leadership skills of prioritizing, collaborating, consulting, and delegating care can be developed. This article reports on a capstone simulation created to develop and sustain th...

According to the World Health Organization, mentorship is vital to attracting, training, and retaining nursing faculty members and maintaining high-quality education programs (World Health Organization, 2006). Moreover, a recent systematic review on nursing faculty shortages recommended mentorship programs to improve nursing faculty retention (Wyte...

Numerous studies have identified the need for the mentorship of nursing instructors, yet there is a gap in literature identifying outcomes of successful mentorship programs. The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to uncover the lived experience of neophyte nursing instructors and the essence of the phenomenon of mentorship. Data were coll...

The current critical nursing shortage demands that both nursing education programs and clinical agencies expand the number of nursing instructors able to promote undergraduate student learning of nursing practice knowledge (Smith & Zsohar, 2007). Nursing education programs are increasingly aware that faculty members are often not prepared to teach...

Background: The current critical nursing shortage is placing stress on both nursing education programs and clinical agencies to increase the number of nursing practice instructors (NPIs) who are able to facilitate undergraduate students learning of nursing practice knowledge. Consequently, this increased need results in hiring NPIs who may not have...