Catherine Elizabeth (Betty) Cragg

Betty Cragg’s clinical interest focuses on the care of children and families. She spent 17 years at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in positions ranging from staff nurse to director of nursing (education and research). In 1983, she joined the University of Western Ontario as a professor, and in 1991, she was hired by the University of Ottawa School of Nursing as assistant director of the Post RN program. She has led curriculum revision and development, including developing and revising the collaborative undergraduate curriculum with local colleges when a bachelor’s degree became required for new registered nurses. During her time at the University of Ottawa, she was director of the School of Nursing from 1996 to 2002, and from 2005 to 2006, and later served as assistant director for undergraduate programs. As a faculty member, she supervised one PhD and eight MSc(N) theses during the early years of graduate nursing education at the University of Ottawa. 

Professor Cragg is not accepting students for thesis supervision. 

• Distance education for nurses and professional women
• Use of simulation in nursing clinical education
• Interprofessional education  
• Qualitative research methods  

Professor Cragg’s research interests focus on nursing education, with particular interest in distance education for nurses. She became interested in distance education for nurses while she was at the University of Western Ontario, and has studied the needs and responses of nurses to professional education by distance at the post-RN, nurse practitioner and master’s levels. She has also worked on the use of technology and simulation in clinical teaching, and interprofessional education.

See Catherine Elizabeth (Betty) Cragg’s publications.