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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Audet, L.-A., Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Tchouaket, E., Kilpatrick, K. (2023). The level of adherence to best-practice guidelines by interprofessional teams with and without acute care nurse practitioners in cardiac surgery: a study protocol. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282467.
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Kilpatrick, K., Savard, I., Audet, L.-A., Kra-Friedman, A., Atallah, R., Jabbour, M., Zhou, W., Wheeler, K., Ladd, E., Gray, D. C., Henderson, C., Spies, L. A., McGrath, H., Rogers, M. (2023). A global perspective of advanced practice nursing research: A review of systematic reviews protocol. PLOS ONE, 18(1), e0280726. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280726.
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Savard, I., Al Hakim, G., Kilpatrick K (2022). The added value of the nurse practitioner: An evolutionary concept analysis. Nursing Open, 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1512.
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Savard, I., Kilpatrick K. (2022). Tailoring research recruitment strategies to survey harder-to-reach populations: A discussion paper. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78, 968–978. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15156.
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Kilpatrick, K., Tchouaket, E., Fernandez, N., Jabbour, M., Dubois, C.-A., Paquette, L., Landry, V., Gauthier, N., & Beaulieu, M.-D. (2021). Patient and family views of team functioning in primary healthcare teams with nurse practitioners: A survey of patient-reported experience and outcomes. BMC Family Practice, 22, 76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01406-y
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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)