Karen Ursel

Education

• PhD (Interdisciplinary), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB (2022)
• Diploma in University Teaching, University of New Brunswick, (2010)
• Certificate in Quality Management, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS (1999)
• Master of Health Services Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (1995)
• Bachelor of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (1991)
• Certificate in Critical Care Nursing, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB

Teaching and scholarly expertise

Student Engagement Strategies - related to the co-created teaching-learning journey with students, both in person (classroom, psychomotor skills and clinical practice) and virtually (synchronously and asynchronously).

Parse’s Humanbecoming Paradigm (2021) and Teaching-Learning model (2004, 2021) to guide research and teaching-learning activities.

Program Development and Evaluation, including continuous quality improvement strategies, Six Sigma, and QSEN, with formative and summative evaluation strategies.

NCLEX Report Program Summary Analysis

Research and scholarly grants

UNB Teaching and Learning Priority Fund ($2500; 2011) Developing Numeracy in the Nursing Student Population. Karen Ursel (Project lead), Dr. C. Aquino-Russell and Dr. J. Grant McLoughlin.

Research expertise

• Teaching & learning Qualitative (Giorgi's Phenomenology)

Awards and distinctions

• 2021 McPhedran Nursing Faculty Development Graduate Scholarship. UNB Faculty of Graduate Studies.
• 2021 Student nomination for the UNB Faculty of Nursing Teaching Award.
• 2018 Student nomination for the UNB Faculty of Nursing Teaching Award.
• 2012 The Lise Perrault Memorial Scholarship – Recognition for individual commitment to nursing theory and work with the humanbecoming school of thought.

Research and scholarly publications

Butler, L., Ursel, K. L., Noronha, J. A., Webster, J., George, L., & VanSlyke, S. (2024). Creating a Dual Degree: Nursing Education goes Global. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership (accepted for publication)

Ursel, K. L. (2022). Living on the Edge ~ A co-created teaching-learning journey. (PhD, Dissertation).

Ursel, K. L. (2020). Minding the gap: The art and science of teaching guided by humanbecoming. Nursing Science Quarterly, 33(4), 322-329.

Ursel, K. L. (2015). From theory to practice: Guided by the humanbecoming leading-following model. Nursing Science Quarterly, 28(1), 28-33.

Committees and volunteer work

• Member, Nurses Association of New Brunswick. Appointed Vice Chair of the NANB Discipline Committee
• Graduate Program Evaluation Committee, member
• Undergraduate Program Evaluation Committee, member
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, member
• NCLEX Working Group, Curriculum Subcommittee, member
• Faculty Assessment Committee, member
• Senate Undergraduate Scholarships Committee, nursing representative
• The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), member for the NGN Item Writing panels, at PearsonVUE, the NCLEX test service, Chicago, Illinois. (2019, 2021)