Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine is a full professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor since 2020. With over 30 years of experience as an educator including 15 years of international teaching, research and project experience, Debbie’s program of research includes successfully leading an international research team on interprofessional learning within a simulated, family assessment environment. She has completed a study on enhanced home visiting practices that surround women and children who live within vulnerability. She has also focused on implementation science research examining collaborative, interprofessional practices that foster community and citizen access to health services and optimal scope of RN practice in emergency services. Understanding the impact of vulnerability on interprofessional practices and women and children’s lives have shaped and influenced her lifelong passions and collaborative work in the community, public health and with families. The social determinants of health, resilience and family nursing theory and understanding system structural practices informs all of her work.
Debbie has been active professionally as the immediate, past chair of the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam Committee for CNA in Ottawa, the Nova Scotia representative as a subject matter expert in the review of the entry level competencies with the Canadian Council of RN Regulators and was an elected CASN accreditation board member, current CASN Board member and on numerous diverse committees both within the university and nursing profession. . She is an active member of the International Family Nursing association research and practice teams who actively work to support global health of families.