Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing
- carmelm@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4547
- Address
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5-258 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 - 87 Ave NWEdmonton ABT6G 1C9
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Critical Illness Frailty Health Economics Cardiovascular disease Advanced Practice Nursing
About
I have varied clinical and administrative experience across multiple care settings. My ICU nursing experience spans adult and pediatric general units, adult specialized cardiac surgery units as well as fixed wing/rotary air and ground transport of ICU patients. In the community I was the palliative home care clinical nurse specialist. I spent a number of years as project lead for multiple quality, patient safety and process improvement projects in cardiology, ICU and emergency departments. My PhD coursework included epidemiology, biostatistics and health economic evaluation. My program of research is focused on clinical and cost outcomes associated with: critical illness, particularly in patients with pre-admission frailty; nursing leadership; ICU nursing turnover; and advanced practice nurses.
Academic training
Postdoctoral fellow - Network of Alberta Health Economists
PhD - Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta
MN - Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing - School of Nursing, Mount Royal University
BSN - College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan
Research
Current research activities
- COVID-19 associated outcomes in ICU patients with pre-admission frailty
- STARRT AKI in-trial economic evaluation
- Costs associated with low- and high-risk admissions to ICU
- Functional and HRQL outcomes in ECMO survivors
- Thermoregulation in older patients admitted to ICU
- Impact of nurse practitioner led post-cardiac surgery follow-up clinic
- Costs associated with ICU nursing staff turnover
- Impact of ICU Survivorship Clinic
Current funding
As principal investigator
- Canadian Frailty Network Early Career Researcher - Hospital Discharge Follow-up of ICU Patients with Preadmission Frailty (2022-2024)
- ARNET Early Career Nursing Investigator - Impact of NP-led cardiac surgery follow-up clinic (2021-2022)
- Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses Research Grant – Costs Associated with Early Mortality in ICU (2020-2021)
As co-principal investigator
- Canadian Frailty Network / CIHR Research Grant - COVID-19 Associated Outcomes of Critical Illness in Patients with Frailty, NPI: OG Rewa (2020-2022)
- Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network Systematic Review Grant - Frailty-inclusive care pathways in acute and community-based care: Evidence review and synthesis, PI: D Rolfson (2021-2022)
As co-investigator
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): REVIVe – Frailty, Rehabilitation, and Hospitalization Outcomes in Adult and Pediatric Survivors of COVID-19, PI: ME Kho, OG Rewa, K Choong (2021-2024)
As collaborator
- Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Health System (PRIHS 6): Improving the delivery of acute dialysis to critically ill Albertans: Dialyzing Wisely, PI: OG Rewa (2021-2024)
Teaching
Courses:
NURS 316 - Pathophysiology and Pharmacology I (undergraduate)
NURS 125/335 - Nursing Practice - Health Assessment and Nursing Process (undergraduate)
NURS 596 - Foundations in Nursing Research (graduate)
NURS 597 - Understanding Complex Systems (graduate)
Current trainees
Primary supervision
Sarah Lartey, PhD student, co-supervision with Dr. Greta Cummings, project: Investigating Diversity & Inclusivity in Western Canadian Nursing Institutions. 2021-present.
Ian Alagadan, PhD student, co-supervision with Dr. Greta Cummings, project: Impact of nursing leadership style on nursing turnover and patient outcomes in ICU. 2022-present.
Announcements
Prospective graduate students
PhD students - not currently accepting.
MN students - please review my areas of research and provide an outline of your proposed research topic and CV by email.
Courses
NURS 597 - Understanding Complex Systems
Explore the complex nature of nursing practice in the context of evolving healthcare systems, including fiscal, policy and regulatory environments. Emphasis is placed on models of care delivery, relationships within and between systems, and issues of health inequity, gender, culture, and bias.
NURS 661 - Guided Individual Study in Nursing
A course designed for in-depth, individual study of a topic related to PhD-level nursing. Learning experiences may include clinical experience.