Katherine Kissel
Positions
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Alberta Health Services
Affiliations
Adjunct Clinical Associate
University of Calgary
Contact information
For media enquiries, contact
Lynda Sea, Senior Manager - Communications
Office: +1.403.471-9762
Email: lsea@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @ucalgarynursing
Background
Biography
Katie (Katherine) is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) who supports the Department of Critical Care Medicine within the Calgary Zone. Within this role, Katie collaborates with nursing and interdisciplinary stakeholders within the DCCM and beyond. Roles and responsibilities include supporting/leading change initiatives, quality improvement and assurance activities, the development and provision of critical care nursing education/specialty certification, knowledge translation, policy/practice development, and participation in interdisciplinary and nursing research.
Katie has over 15 years of experience within critical care. She has worked as a CNS since 2020, and prior as a Clinical Nurse Educator within Intensive Care and Coronary Care.
Publications
- The impact of a three-tiered model of nursing redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study. Kissel, K.A., Filipek, C., Folz, E., & Jenkins, J.. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 77(103431), 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.iccn.2023.103431. (2023)
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses working in intensive care units: A scoping review. Kissel, K.A., Filipek, C., & Jenkins, J.. Critical Care Nurse. 43(2), 55-63. doi:10.4037/ccn2023196. (2023)
- Virtual reality as an adjunctive comfort measure in the intensive care and coronary care unit: A nurse-led quality improvement pilot project. Kissel, K.A., Soo, A., & Tateson Bennett, K. . Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing. 32(4), 5-13. doi:10.5737/23688653-324513 . (2021)
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