Joan Harris has an MHSc specializing in bioethics from the University of Toronto, a BSc in honours physiology from the University of Alberta and an RN diploma from the Royal Alexandra School of Nursing. She comes to Mount Royal University with over 20 years of critical care nursing experience at the bedside and as a Clinical Nurse Educator in the Foothills Medical Centre ICU. She is a member of the Canadian Association for Critical Care Nurses (CACCN) and has attended and presented at this conference numerous times.

Areas of Instruction

• Advanced Studies in Critical Care Nursing
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Assessment
• BN - Anatomy & Physiology
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology

Areas of Scholarship

• Critical Care Nursing
• Simulation

Teaching Pattern

Teaching-Service

Selected Publication

Harris, J. M., & Bouma, J. M. (2019). Chapter 18: Shock and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. In Brunner & Suddarth’s Canadian Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 4th Ed. (pp. 341–369). Canada: Wolters Kluwer.

Selected Presentations

Harris, J. M., & Goldsworthy, S. J. (2025). Techniques for embedding virtual simulation into critical care orientations. Innovations and AI Solutions - Teaching and Learning Conference.

Harris, J. M. (2023). Care of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient. Executive Links.

Two-part online series for Registered Nurses on Caring for a mechanically ventilated patient.

McLellan, H. M., Bouma, J. M., Feist, H. A., & Harris, J. M. (2022). Unfolding Case Study: Performance and Perception. EuroSoTL.

Feist, H. A., Bouma, J. M., & Harris, J. M. (2022). The clot stops here: Medications to treat alterations in coagulation, two-part series.

Harris Ms, J. M., & Bouma, J. M. (2021). Next Frontier: Microbiome and Epigenetics in the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock. Virtual National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition (NTI).

Harris, J. M., Feist, H. A., & Bouma, J. M. (2019). The Clot Thickens: And other coagulation mysteries revealed. CACCN Dynamics National Conference, 37–38.

Harris, J.M., Feist, H.A., & Bouma, J.M. (2019). No Gut, No Glory: The importance of maintaining the integrity of the gastrointestinal tract in critically ill patients. CACCN Dynamics National Conference, 37–38