Dr. Carrie McDermott is the Corporate Director, Academic Practice Integration and Partnerships, Associate Professor, and Co-Director for the InEmory MN Prelicensure program. Dr. McDermott’s scholarship is focused on competency-based orientation, competency assessment, and academic practice partnerships. She is evaluating an innovative preceptor model for group orientation and exploring the value of a student nurse apprenticeships on practice readiness. Dr. McDermott is Co-Director for the 2HEAL program advancing SDOH Competency and developing SDOH competency assessments.

McDermott C, Bhat S, Potts J, Abiri A, Chance-Reels R, Irish J, Kaligotla L, Rider N, & Chicas, R. (2025). Preparing the Nurses of the Future to Address Health Disparities. Nursing Administration Quarterly, Accepted 3/11/2025

Chicas R, Reene C, Abiri A, Bhat S, Chance-Revels R, Hillman J, Irish J, Kaligotla L, Phan Q, Rider N, & McDermott C. (2025). Assessing Social Determinants of Health Competencies Among Nurses. Nursing Outlook 72(2) 102380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2025.102380

McDermott C, & Lewis A. (2025). An Academic Practice Partnership to Support Transition to Practice. Nurse Administration Quarterly 49(2), April/June 2025. DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000681

Kaligotla L, Bhat S, Chicas R, Irish J, McDermott, C & Chance-Revels, R (2024). Leveraging Narrative Reflective Writing to Teach Nursing Students About Social Determinants of Health by Harnessing “Small Moments.” Nurse Educator, Early access 10/1/2024. DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001763

Swan, B. A., Jones, K. D., Hayes, R., Kaligotla, L., McDermott, C., Rodriguez, J., & McCauley, L. (2024). Reject the "Practice Readiness Myth": Ask if systems are ready for nursing graduates instead. Nursing outlook, 72(5), 102181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102181

Wands, L, McDermott, C, Bernard, N, & Kimble, L. (2024). Implementing Cognitive Rehearsal Training with Nursing Students to Counter Incivility in the Clinical Setting as Students and New Nurses: A Sequential Mixed Methods Study. Nursing Education Perspectives. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001325

McDermott, C. (2024). Beyond Nurse Residency Programs: What More Can We Do? NCSBN Leader to Leader, Spring 2024. Pp 9-11. https://www.ncsbn.org/public-files/LTL_Spring2024.pdf

McDermott, C. (2023). Reimagining the Preceptor Role, Nurse Administration Quarterly, 47(3): pp 227-233, July/September 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000580.

McDermott, C. (2023). Supporting Competency-Based Time-Variable Orientation of Newly Licensed RNs, Nurse Leader, 21(2): pp 169-173 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2022.12.005

Robertson B, McDermott C, Star J, Clevenger CK. (2021). The Academic-Practice Partnership: Educating Future Nurses. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 45(4), E1-E11. October/December 2021. doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000487 Epub ahead of print. Aug 2, 2021, PMID: 34346906.

McDermott, C., Bernard, N, & Hathaway, W. (2021). Taking a stand against workplace incivility. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 52(5), 232-239. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20210414-07

• 2024 Inducted in the American Academy of Nursing
• 2022 Daisy Leader Award, Emory Healthcare
• 2022 Heart of the Students’ Award, Emory University, NHWSON
• 2020 Georgia Nurse of the Year for Excellence in Nursing Education
• 2020 Woodruff Health Educators Academy-Teaching Fellowship