Nursing

A Professor in the School of Nursing at Queen’s University. Dr. Almost holds a BScN and MScN from Western University and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on partnering with healthcare leaders and policymakers to strengthen the nursing profession and improve quality practice environments. She has collaborated with national nursing organizations, including the Canadian Nurses Association, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, and the Canadian Principal Nursing Advisors Task Force. She also serves as an Editor for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership and contributes to advisory groups with Health Workforce Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information

A nurse researcher whose work focuses on partnering with patients and clinicians as core members of research teams. Jacqueline's research uses collaborative and co‑design approaches to align lived experience and clinical insight with applied research questions. She has led and contributed to partnered projects that prioritize relevance, feasibility, and real‑world application. Their work highlights how research conducted with, rather than on, patients and clinicians can lead to outputs that are both clinically meaningful and system‑relevant.