Heather McLellan, MEd, RN


Academic title: Associate Professor

Contact Information
Office: W302H
Email: hmclellan@mtroyal.ca
Phone: 403.440.7201

Education
MEd, Athabasca University
BN, University of Calgary

 

Heather McLellan has almost 40 years of emergency, critical care and transport nursing experience working in Canada and Internationally with twenty years of that time spent working on helicopter air ambulances including Air One (Tyler, Texas), University of Texas Life Flight (Galveston, Texas) and Alberta Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS, Calgary). Heather has authored, edited and reviewed chapters and articles for transport and emergency nursing publications. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Air & Surface Transport Nursing Association, Canadian Aerospace Medicine and Aeromedical Transport Association and the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing for both Emergency and Transport Nursing Specialty exams. Heather maintains clinical currency working in the Foothills Medical Centre Emergency Department, Calgary’s Level 1 Trauma Centre. Her teaching focus is online distance education for the adult professional.

Areas of Instruction

  • Emergency and Critical Care Assessment
  • Emergency and Critical Care Pathophysiology
  • Emergency Care of the Acutely Ill and Injured
  • Critical Care Physiology
Areas of Scholarship
  • Emergency and Critical Care Assessment Emergency and Critical Care Pathophysiology Emergency Care of the Acutely Ill and Injured Critical Care Physiology
  • RN preparedness for learning in high acuity environments

Selected Publications

McLellan, H. in Holleran, R.S. (Ed.) (2017). Burns. Air & Surface Patient Transport: Principles and Practice. Elsevier Mosby; St. Louis, MO

Mclellan, H. in York, D.C, Stocking, J.C., Johnson, J, Treadwell, D & Corbett P. (Eds). (2017). Neurological Emergencies. Critical Care Transport Core Curriculum. Aurora, CO. Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association

Mclellan, H. in York, D.C, Stocking, J.C., Johnson, J, Treadwell, D & Corbett P. (Eds). (2017). Neurological Trauma. Critical Care Transport Core Curriculum. Aurora, CO. Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association.

Relevant Community Service

  • Editor — Canadian Journal of Emergency Nursing
  • Lead Site Surveyor — Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS)
  • Site Surveyor — Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN)
  • Peer Reviewer — Air Medical Journal