Associate Professor
Affiliation
McGill University
Research Axes
Team
- Mira Jabbour
- Véronique Landry
- Li-Anne Audet
- Grace Al Hakim
- Isabelle Savard
- Renée Atallah
Kelley Kilpatrick has a PhD in nursing and heads the theme related to Evaluative Research and Patient Experience. Kelley Kilpatrick is an Associate Professor at the Ingram School of Nursing at McGill University and the Susan E. French Chair in Nursing Research and Innovative Practice.
Kelley Kilpatrick's research program focuses on team functioning and advanced practice nursing roles and aims to improve care for patients and families. Kelley led the implementation of new nurse practitioner roles in long-term care and home care teams In Québec. Her team developed the first patient-reported experience and patient-reported outcome measure of interprofessional team functioning that Includes patient and families as members of the healthcare team.
Research Unit
Research Unit
We focus on team processes to open the ‘black box’ of how advanced practice nursing roles support healthcare teams and improve patient care.
Research interests
- Roles of advanced practice nurses
- Introduction of specialized nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists
- Changes to interprofessional boundaries
- Perceptions of the effectiveness of nursing team members
- Optimization of interprofessional team functioning
- Acute, first-line, home, long-term, as well as palliative care
- Care outcomes
- Patients and families
Grants
- Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research - 2022-2023 Funding Competition for Innovative and Structuring Projects
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Spring 2022 Project Grant - October 2022 to September 2023
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Fall 2021 Insight Grants - April 2022 to March 2025
- Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research - Programme de projets intégrateurs stratégiques 2019-2020
- Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux - January 2020 to June 2024
- Quebec Network on Nursing Intervention Research, Fall 2019 Knowledge Mobilisation Competition
Publications
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Kilpatrick, K., Allard, É., Jabbour, M., Tchouaket, E. (2025). Factors that support home deaths for patients receiving at-home palliative and end-of-life care: A sequential mixed-methods explanatory study. BMC Palliative Care – Collection on Home-based Palliative Care. 24(1), 197. DOI: 10.1186/s12904-025-01840-0
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Kilpatrick, K., Landry, V.*, Nguemeleu Tchouaket, E., Daigle, A., Jabbour, M. (2025). Implementing an online instrument to measure nurse practitioner workload: A feasibility study. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health – Special Collection on Advancing Practice in Primary and Community Care, 16, 21501319251321302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319251321302
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Landry, V., Jabbour, M., Kilpatrick, K. (2025). A workload measurement instrument for nurse practitioners: Finding consensus with the TRIAGE Method. Nurse Practitioner Open Journal, 1(1), 23-35. DOI: 10.28984/npoj.v1i1.477
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Savard, I.*, Costanzo, G.*, Henderson, C., Gray, D. C., Rogers, M., Kilpatrick, K. (2025). Unlocking the potential of primary healthcare nurse practitioners globally: A concept analysis of their added value. Nursing Outlook, 73(2), 102358. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2025.102358
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Paquette, L.*, Kilpatrick, K. (2024). Role enactment of intensive care unit nurses when weaning patients from mechanical ventilation: A multiple-case study. Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 35(3), 8-18. DOI: 10.5737/23688653-3538.
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Kilpatrick, K., Savard, I.*, Audet, L.-A.*, Costanzo, G.*, Khan, M., Atallah, R., Jabbour, M., Zhou, W., Wheeler, K., Ladd, E., Gray, D. C., Henderson, C., Spies, L. A., McGrath, H., Rogers, M. (2024). A global perspective of advanced practice nursing research: A review of systematic reviews. PLOS ONE, 19(7), e0305008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305008.
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Kilpatrick, K., Tewah, R.*, Tchouaket, E., Jokiniemi, K., Bouabdillah, N., Biron, A., Emed, J., Martel, B., Atallah, R., Jabbour, M., Bryant-Lukosius, D. (2024). Describing clinical nurse specialist practice: a mixed methods study. Clinical Nurse Specialist: The International Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, 38(6), 280-291. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000856.
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Savard, I.*, Kilpatrick, K., Jabbour, M., Gauthier, N., Tchouaket Nguemeleu, E. (2024). Evaluating the influence of primary healthcare nurse practitioners’ interventions in home care on hospitalizations and emergency department transfers. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 30(3), 440-452. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13960.
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Attieh, S., Kilpatrick, K., Chênevert, D., Pomey, M.-P., Loiselle, C. G. (2024). Measuring team functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of cancer care team members. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 17, 2623-2633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S448985.
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Landry, V.*, Kilpatrick, K. (2024). Essential elements of a workload measurement instrument for nurse practitioners. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 20(10), 105214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2024.105214.
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Audet, L.-A.*, Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Tchouaket, E., Kilpatrick, K. (2024). Development of a measure of adherence to best practice guidelines by interprofessional teams with nurse practitioners in the cardiac surgery setting. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 34(1), 13-21.
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Audet, L.-A.*, Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Tchouaket, E., Kilpatrick, K. (2024). Interprofessional teams with and without nurse practitioners and the level of adherence to best practice guidelines in cardiac surgery: A retrospective study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 33(11), 4395-4407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.17117.
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Kilpatrick, K., Geese, F., Zhou, W., Bryant-Lukosius, D. (2024). Advanced Practice Nurses and Engagement in Research, Quality Improvement, and Evidence-Informed Decision-Making. (Chapter 8). Rogers, M., Lehwaldt, D., Roussel, J., Acorn, M. (eds). Advanced Practice Nurse Networking to Enhance Global Health. pp. 143-161. Springer: Cham, Switzerland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39740-0_8.
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Kilpatrick, K., Tchouaket, E., Savard, I.*, Chouinard, M.-C., Bouabdillah, N., Provost-Bazinet, B., Costanzo, G.*, Houle, J., St-Louis, G., Jabbour, M., Atallah, R. (2023). Identifying indicators sensitive to primary healthcare nurse practitioner practice: A review of systematic reviews. PLOS ONE, 18(9), e0290977. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290977.
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Education
Postdoctoral fellowship
McMaster University
PhD in nursing
McGill University
MSc in nursing
McGill University
Awards
- 2021 Senior Research Schola (FRQS)
- 2019 Holder (Susan E. French Research Chair)
- 2017 Junior 2 Research Scholar (FRQS)
- 2013 Junior 1 Research Scholar (FRQS)
- 2010 Postdoctoral fellowship – Advanced Nursing Practice Research Unit (CHSRF/CIHR)
- 2007 Doctoral Fellowship (FRQS)
- 2007 Doctoral Fellowship - Research Chair in Advanced Nursing Practice (FCRSS/IRSC)
- 2006 Doctoral Fellowship (FERASI/IR-CUSM)