Monique Sedgwick

Dr. Monique Sedgwick has been a registered nurse since 1983. She is passionate about nursing, health, and health education, and her research endeavors have led me to explore rural nursing, rural nursing preceptorship, critical thinking and the use of mobile applications. She also enjoys playing chess, online learning workload in graduate programming, and microethical issues in the simulated learning environment.

Education:

• PhD Preceptorship, University of Alberta '08
• MN Nursing, University of Alberta '95
• BSc Nursing, University of Alberta '90
• Diploma of Nursing, Misericordia Hospital School of Nursing '83

Courses taught:

Dr. Sedgwick has over 36 years of teaching experience, since 2015 she has taught primarily online across various disciplines. A short list of her recent courses taught is listed below:

• HLSC 5400 Advanced Qualitative Methods and Analysis (online)
• NURS 5160 Thesis proposal development (online)
• NURS 5850 Qualitative Methods (online)
• NURS 5100 Ethics, policy & practice (online) 
• PUBH 3420 Public Health Ethics (online)
• NURSING PRAXIS 4922

Dr. Sedgwick supervises students interested in rural nursing and nursing education.

Research:

Her program of research has 2 primary areas of focus: Nursing Education and Rural Nursing Practice. Some of her recent research awards are listed below: 

• Feedback in Senior Undergraduate Nursing Preceptorship When the Student Doesn’t Fit the Mold: Student and Their Preceptors’ Experiences, WNRCASN (2025): Monique Sedgwick (PI),Dr. Kerry Lynn Durnford (Co-I)
• Feedback in Senior Undergraduate Nursing Preceptorship When the Student Doesn’t Fit the Mold: Student and Their Preceptors’ Experiences, Aurora College Research Award (2024): Monique Sedgwick (PI), Dr. Kerry Lynn Durnford (Co-I)
• Capacity and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of MAiD in a post-Bill C-7 Canada, SSHRC Insight Grant (2024): Julia Brassolotto (PI), Monique Sedgwick (Co-I), Polly Ford-Jones (Co-I), Duff Waring
• Internationally Educated Nurses’ Experience of Rural Alberta Nursing Practice: A Mixed Methods Study, Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) (2023): Monique Sedgwick (PI), Helen Kelley (Co-I), Daniela Sirbu (Co-I)

Recent Publications:

• Sedgwick, M., & Kelly, H. (2026). The Key to the Transition and Integration of Internationally Educated Registered Nurses in Rural Alberta, Canada. Journal of Nursing Management, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/jonm/7378466 
• Sedgwick, M., & Kelley, H. (2025). Internationally Educated Nurses’ Experiences of Rural Nursing in Western Canada. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 15(8), https://doi.org/10.63564/jnep.v15n8p1. 
• Sedgwick, M., Crosschild, C., Rohatinsky, N., & Scott, D. (2025). Resilience Among Indigenous Graduate Nursing Students: A Scoping Review. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education, 11(1), article 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1457 
• Sedgwick, M., Brassolotto, J., Manduca-Barone, A (2024). Rural Healthcare Professionals’ Participation in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): Beyond a
  Binary Decision. BMC Palliative Care, 23 (107). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01440-4. 
• Brassolotto, J., Manduca-Barone, A, & Sedgwick, M. (2023). Placing MAiD: A qualitative study of medical assistance in dying in rural Alberta. Health & Place, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103073