Shauna Houk

Senior Instructor & Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies Academic

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Related Information:


Email: shauna.houk@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3498
Fax: 902-494-3487
Mailing Address: 
Room 119, Forrest Bldg.
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
5869 University Avenue
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Patient safety
  • Student evaluation

Biography

Professor Houk is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University.  She has 25+ years of clinical practice experience in the areas of adult and pediatric emergency and critical care and maintains a current clinical practice in the emergency department.  She has been involved with the development and implementation of curriculum, program planning, and the delivery of education to undergraduate and continuing education students. This has involved classroom and online lectures, clinical instruction, laboratory teaching and testing, and the facilitation of clinical learning.  Her research interests include professional practice, quality care, accountability, and undergraduate student clinical assessment and evaluation.

Education

  • Graduate of Dalhousie University (MN)
  • University of Saskatchewan (BScN)
  • Saskatchewan Institute of Applied of Science and Technology (RN)

Memberships

  • College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia
  • Atlantic Regional Canadian Association Schools of Nursing
  • Canadian Nurses Foundation

Publications

  • Houk, S., & Macdonald, M. (2008). A pharyngitis delegated medical function in the emergency department: The pre-implementation process. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, 30(4), 357-370.