Kelly Morrow has been teaching courses within the undergraduate nursing program since fall 2012 and is a clinical faculty coordinator for the school’s Dedicated Education Unit (DEU). In this role, she mentors and assists specially trained staff nurses who supervise students in the clinical nursing role, and coordinates continuing education offerings at the two local hospitals that house DEUs. She is a certified nurse educator, board certified in medical surgical nursing, and has more than 20 years of clinical nursing experience in critical care, surgical services, and cardiology.

Morrow is in the third year of her doctoral degree program at the University of Colorado, Denver/Anshutz Medical Campus in the Caring Science track. Her research focuses on factors affecting safety voice among healthcare workers and the implementation of evidence-based caring practices to increase worker safety voice behaviors. Morrow is also completing the Caritas Coach Education Program at the Watson Caring Science Institute in Boulder, CO, and will be eligible to certify as an Advanced Holistic Nurse and Nurse Coach upon completion in April, 2017.