Dr. Kleib’s research program is focused on preparing the nursing workforce for the digital health revolution. The overall goal of her program is to enhance the preparedness of the nursing workforce and their capabilities to effectively integrate existing and emerging digital health technology in their practice roles to deliver high quality nursing care and achieve better outcomes for patients, providers, and health systems.
Her research to date examined digital health integration in Canadian Schools of Nursing, Alberta registered nurses’ informatics competency and factors impacting its development, integration of academic electronic health records in nursing education, nursing students’ readiness for practice in digitally enabled care environment, interprofessional simulation, Virtual Reality for developing clinical skills, and digital literacy among health consumers. Through her research, she also developed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the Canadian Nurse Informatics Competency Assessment Scale (C-NICAS), the first Canadian scale developed based on entry-to-practice nursing informatics competencies. Currently she is leading a study to examine students’ perceptions, social learning processes and institutional contexts that influence how nursing students learn about digital health and its applications in providing patient care.
Dr. Kleib is an active participant in local and national projects to advance nursing informatics capacity and digital health. She also chairs the informatics research group in the Faculty of Nursing and serves as a co-treasurer for the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association. Her diverse local and international experiences have provided unique learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Alberta in informatics, digital health, emerging technology, leadership, and innovation.
