Holly has spent much of her career in the Calgary area, primarily working in emergency departments and intensive care units. She was also a CNS in the PICU at Alberta Children’s Hospital. At present, she is an associate professor at MRU where she is as a coordinator and professor for the Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing - Emergency Stream (ACCN-ER). Holly also teaches within the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) program and works as a fellow in simulation with the Health Simulation Learning Centre (HSLC). When not teaching at MRU, Holly still picks up shifts in the ED at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, AB.

Area of Instruction

Holly's areas of instruction focus mainly on assessment skills for BN and ACCN students. She also teaches the ER pathophysiology course and comprehensive senior-level courses on ER nursing. Additionally, Holly facilitates simulation scenarios within the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

• BN and ACCN Assessment
• ACCN Pathophysiology
• ACCN Care of the Acutely Ill and Injured Part A
• ACCN Care of the Acutely Ill and Injured Part B
• Simulation-based scenarios

Area of Scholarship

• Intent to stay within critical care environments (ER, ICU, & CCT)
• Use of AI chatbots to supplement assessment skills in undergraduate learning
• Rapid response systems within the emergency department
• Scholarship of teaching and learning in relation to the online learning environment

Teaching Pattern

• Teaching-Service

Goldsworthy, S., Harris, J., McLellan, H., & Feist, H.A. (2025). Ready for practice! Virtual simulation in critical care and emergency nursing education. The Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 36(3), 14-17. DOI: 10.5737/23688653-36314

Plant, G., Le-Williams, K., Kampan, R., Feist, H.A., Mahoney, M., & Gilleland, J. (2025). Evaluating a novel pediatric critical care outreach's program impact on ICU transfers and outcomes. The International Journal of Pediatric &Adolescent Medicine. DOI:10.4103/IJPAM.IJPAM_76_25

National Emergency Nurses Association [NENA]. (2025). Emergency Nursing: Standards of Canadian Practice. https://nena.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/NENA-ED-NURSING-STANDARDS-FINAL-2025_04_03_compressed.pdf   Holly was part of the committee that developed the Emergency Nursing Standards of Canadian Practice.

Feist, H.A. (2019). Chapter 73: Emergency Nursing. In M.EL. Hussein & J. Osuji (Eds.) Brunner & Suddarth’s Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Selected Presentations

Invited Talks:

Health Links Education. (2025). Rapid Response: Care of the Deteriorating Patient. Presentations in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Winnipeg, & Saskatoon.

NENA Annual Conference. (2025). 68/40, HR 167…HELP! Vasopressor / Inotropic medication titration in ED. Calgary, AB. https://nena.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/NENA-2023-ReconnectED-Schedule.pdf

Health Links Education. (2023). Respiratory Assessment [webinar]. https://healthlinksed.ca/?product=resp-1 Health Links Education. (2023). Code Blue: The role of the acute care nurse [webinar]. https://healthlinksed.ca/?product=code-blue-1

Health Links Education. (2023). The clot stops here: Medications to treat alterations in coagulation – 2 part series [webinar]. Co-Presenters: Harris, J., & Bouma, J. https://healthlinksed.ca/?product=clot-1-series

Conferences:

EuroSoTL. (2022). Manchester, UK. Unfolding Case Study: Performance & Perception [poster presentation]. Co-presenters: McLellan, H., Harris, J., & Bouma, J.

Celebrate! Teaching and Learning. (2022). Calgary, AB. Engaging in Universal Design for Learning [oral presentation]. Co-Presenters: Merrells, T., Szabo, J., Phillipson, A., Morris, J., & Young, R.

Dynamics Conference, Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses. (2019). Halifax, NS. Topic 1: The clot thickens: And other coagulation mysteries revealed [oral presentation] Topic 2: No gut, No glory: The importance of maintaining the integrity of the gastro-intestinal tract in critical-ill patients [oral presentation]. Co-presenters: Harris, J. & Bouma, J.

EmerGing Dynamics. (2019). Calgary, AB. Topic: An ED nurses experience in court [oral presentation]. Co-presenter: Enokson, R.

Emergency Medicine Research Day. (2019). Calgary, AB. Topic: Rapid response system introduction to the Emergency Department at Alberta Children's Hospital [poster presentation].

3rd Global Emergency Nursing and Trauma Care Conference. (2018). Noodwijkerhout, Netherlands. Topic: Rapid response system introduction to the Emergency Department [oral presentation].

Relevant Community Service

Working with a middle school in Airdrie, AB to discuss emergency topics

Working with Carsland Volunteer Fire Department in a medical education capacity.

Career mentor with Junior Achievers World of Choices https://jasab.ca/students/