Sears | Health Quality Programs | Queen's University

Dr. Kim Sears RN, PhD

Position(s)

Professor, Health Quality Programs

Contact Info

searsk@queensu.ca

(613) 533-6000 ext. 78763

Room 216, 102 Barrie Street

Graduate Student Supervision

I am not accepting PhD students for Fall 2026.

Teaching/Clinical Practice

Dr. Kim Sears is a Professor at Queen's University. Dr. Sears has over twenty years' experience as a nurse, primarily focused in neonatal intensive care units. Throughout her teaching experience Dr. Sears has been primarily involved in quality and safety in healthcare. She has expertise in the area of curriculum development, design and evaluation.

Affiliations

School of Nursing, Queen’s University

JBI Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality

Inaugural Recipient of the Richard Resnick Fellowship Faculty of Health Science Queen’s University

Health Sciences Education Scholar Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship Faculty of Health Sciences Queen’s University.

Provincial

Accreditation Committee of Foundations of Quality Improvement

National

SPOR Evidence Alliance Executive Committee

Canadian Patient Safety Institute Expert committee revising patient safety competencies

Researcher Safe Assured Research Group (Housed at Dalhousie University)

International

JBI Adelaide University

Adjunct Associate Professor within the School of Public Health and Medical Science, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia

Implementation Science Synthesis Network of the Americas

World Health Organization- Global Patient Safety Network.

Research Interests

Dr. Sears conducts an active program of research in health services with a focus on advancing quality care, reducing risk and improving patient safety. Most of her work focuses on furthering the quality and safety of medication delivery. Dr. Sears explores the advancement of medication delivery in Canada and internationally including both the community and hospital settings for children and adults. Dr. Sears has experience working with large databases, quantitative methodology and integrative studies using systemic review methodology.

Dr. Sears has been a visiting scholar at both the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia and the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai’i. She has also been an Educator in Residence at the Centre for Teaching and Learning and an Interprofessional Mentor, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Further, she has been a Scholar in Residence Health Studies and Health Sciences, Bader College, Queen’s University, Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, England. As well she is an Inaugural Recipient of the Richard Resnick Fellowship Queen’s Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and an Adjunct Associate Professor within the School of Public Health and Medical Science, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia. Further, she is a Health Sciences Education Scholar within the Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University.

Publications

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