Venise Bryan, PhD RN, uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to study preceptorship, transition, and self-efficacy of final-year nursing students. She is especially interested in identifying stressful factors in clinical nursing education, building leadership capacity in preceptors, and fostering positive interpersonal relationships among nursing students and with preceptors. Her research career began as a Master of Nursing student at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where she explored the types of interpersonal relationships between nursing students and lecturers and their effect on learning outcomes. Venise identified specific attributes faculty members needed to possess, to facilitate positive interpersonal relationships with students. Dr. Bryan’s ongoing research program examines leadership in the clinical teaching and learning healthcare environment. She has received many awards and grants, including the Alberta Registered Nurses Educational Trust Grant, the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Research Program, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and internal funding, including the Athabasca University Special COVID-19 Fund. She is working with various scholars at Athabasca University in implementing and evaluating peer mentoring in the Faculty of Health Disciplines (FHD).