Profiles And Contributions To This Article

'We have to drive everywhere': rural nurses and their precepted students

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting of manuscript

position: Professor and Vice Dean

Deirdre Jackman

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Executive Director of Clinical Placements

Research focus: Nursing education, Clinical education, Interprofessional clinical education, Simulation

Dr Florence Luhanga

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Critical revision

position: Associate Professor

Dr Florence Myrick

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Critical revision

position: Professor Emerita

Tracy Oosterbroek

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision

position: Assistant Professor

Canada

Tracy is a Registered Nurse by training, holds both Baccalaureate and Masters degrees in nursing and is a PhD candidate in nursing, in the final stages of her doctoral program at the University of Alberta. Tracy has over 25 years clinical nursing expertise working with clients of unique and varied backgrounds in numerous primary care settings including rural, community, medical-surgical, paediatric, long-term care, and Intensive Care. Her research interests include: Health care access and outcomes among vulnerable, underserved populations; Indigenous and rural health; and Nursing preceptorship. She holds numerous memberships in professional nursing associations including the International Rural Nursing Organization (RNO) and the Health Services Quality Institute (HSQI) at the University of Lethbridge. She has acted as co-investigator with the Institute in a previous study examining health care delivery models among long-term care and assisted living facilities across rural and urban Alberta. She has additional previous research and clinical practice experience working with individuals and families belonging to various cultural and ethnic groups, including but not limited to Kanadier Mennonites, Hutterites, and Aboriginal people in rural Southern Alberta, and nursing students, faculty advisors and preceptors during preceptorship.