Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor and serves as the assistant director at St. Francis Xavier University Rankin School of Nursing, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her current, international research focus is on interprofessional learning within a simulated family assessment environment. She is an expert in curriculum design and revision, community/public health/family nursing practice and has recently completed a study on enhanced home visiting practices that surround women and children who live within vulnerability in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Her teaching for the last 20 years has focused on Nursing of Families based upon the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013) and the Illness Beliefs Model (Wright & Bell, 2009). She has used simulation with standardized patients and actors for many years in Canada and internationally to develop family assessment and interviewing skills among thousands of BScN Canadian and international students based upon the Calgary Family Assessment Model. She has expanded her work to include an inter professional focus by bringing together medical and nursing students in learning together family assessment and intervention.
For more information contact IFNA member, Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine.
