Lynn is a nurse with over 35 years of broad clinical and leadership experience. Lynn has a background in Neonatal Nursing, Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Chronic Illness, Community Health, and Leadership. Lynn's research interests include: the experience of nurses in practice, the mentorship of leadership qualities in undergraduate students, and the decolonialist ideology in nursing education. Lynn teaches across the four years of the program with a special interest in first- and third-year courses.

Areas of Instruction

• Across the curriculum
• Health Promotion with Individuals I
• Health Promotion with Populations, Communities and Families/Professional Practice III
• Research Practices for Health and Community
• Family Newborn
• Child Health

Areas of Scholarship

• Infant and Maternity Care
• Pediatrics, Moral Resiliency
• Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
• Nurses Experience in NICU
• Classic Grounded Theory

Teaching Pattern

Teaching-Service

Selected Publication 

Parker, S., Anderes, S., Headley, L., Elwi, A., Estey, A., Crocker, A., Laws, A., Quan, M. (2019) Same-day surgery for mastectomy patients in Alberta: A perioperative care pathway and quality improvement initiative. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 26 (10), 3354-3360. doi: 10.1245/s10434-019-07568-5

Kennedy, A., Headley, L., Van Den Kerkhof, E., Harvey, G., Riyaz, A., Dillon, R. Spence, Grandmother D., and Bear Chief, Elder R. (2022) "All my relations": Elders’ teachings grounding a decolonial bachelor of nursing program philosophy. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière: 8 (3) DOI: https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1359

Selected Presentations

2025 Simulation-based Training to Manage and Prioritize the Care of the Abandoned Pediatric Patient. ASPiH International Conference, Bournemouth England. [November 11-13, 2025]

2025 Reconciling Parental Indifference: Nurses’ Experiences of Caring for Abandoned Infants in the NICU. CAPWYN Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia [October 8, 9, 2025]

2019 Reconciling Indifference presentation at the International Grounded Theory Seminar. Galway, Ireland, [May 9, 10, 2019]

Relevant Community Service

• Board of Directors ALS Society of Alberta
• Nursing Advisory Committee, Wood’s Homes