Dr. Shannon Scott

Professor, Research Chair in Knowledge Translation for Child Health, University of Alberta

Nursing, child health, pediatric nursing, healthcare system, education for nurses, embedding research in clinical practice, patient engagement, implementation science, knowledge translation

Media

What is ECHO?

Croup Whiteboard Video 2016 (revised 2020)

Croup is a common respiratory illness caused by a viral infection in the airways. Accompanied by a barky cough and respiratory distress, this illness is most common in children from birth to 6 years of age, peaking at 2 years of age. This is a short, animated video about signs and symptoms of croup, and what to do if you are a parent or a family dealing with a child who has croup.

How to manage your child's fever (revised 2020)

Fevers are the body’s natural response to infection. It can be scary when your child has a fever, but fevers will not hurt your child. This video provides information about how to take your child’s temperature, how to manage their symptoms, and when to seek health care.

Cough, Cold, and Wheeze: How to help manage your child’s bronchiolitis

Bronchiolitis is a viral infection, commonly caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), that affects the lower part of the lungs. It mainly affects babies and young children under 2 and is very contagious. This video provides information on the symptoms of bronchiolitis, how to manage it at home, and when to seek emergency care.

Did you know babies and children can get urinary tract infections?

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a bacterial infection of the urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra). They can occur at any stage of life and symptoms may be different depending on your child’s age. This video provides information about symptoms, when to seek medical care, and how to manage and prevent UTIs in children.

Learning to live with chronic pain

This audiobook follows a teenager and her family’s experiences dealing with chronic pain, sharing the struggle to achieve daily activities and how the family learned to cope with and manage her pain.

How to manage your child’s ear infection

Acute otitis media (or middle ear infections) are infections caused by viruses or bacteria and are very common in children. This video provides useful information for parents and families about symptoms, how to manage symptoms, and when to seek care for a child who has an ear infection.

Videos, ebooks help parents decide when children need to go to ER

Canadian maternity and pediatric nursing
by Chow, J., Ateah, C., Scott, S.D., Ricci, S., & Kyle, T.
Wolters Kluwer
October 12, 2012
1451102232

Authors Jean Chow, Christine Ateah, Shannon Scott, Susan Ricci, and Terri Kyle have teamed up to deliver a unique resource for students to understand the health needs of women and children. This new combination book, Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, will empower students to guide women and their children toward higher levels of wellness throughout the life cycle. The main objective is to aid the students in building a strong knowledge base that reflects the Canadian context as well as to assist with the development of critical thinking skills. In addition, the focus of the textbook will allow the reader to anticipate, identify, and address common problems and provide timely, evidence-based interventions. Maternity nursing content coverage is comprehensive, yet presented in a concise and straightforward manner. The pediatric nursing content presents the important differences when caring for children compared with caring for adults. A nursing process approach provides relevant information in a concise and non-redundant manner. The content covered in the text arms the student or practicing nurse with essential information to care for women and their families, to assist them to make the right choices safely, intelligently, and with confidence.

Canadian essentials of pediatric nursing
by Ateah, C., Scott, S.D., & Kyle, T.
Wolters Kluwer
August 8, 2012
1609137078

In pediatric nursing, the ability to apply previously learned concepts to new situations is critical. In today's educational climate, with reduced class time being devoted to specialty areas, it is particularly important for nursing educators to focus on key concepts, rather than attempting to cover everything within a specific topic.

The intent ofCanadianEssentials of Pediatric Nursingis to provide the nurse with the basis needed for sound nursing care of children. The main objective is to aid the students in building a strong knowledge base that reflects the Canadian context as well as to assist with the development of critical thinking skills. The book covers a broad scope of topics, placing emphasis on common issues and pediatric-specific content. The text presents the important differences when caring for children as compared to caring for adults. Rather than repeating medical-surgical content, the text builds upon that knowledge base. A nursing process approach provides relevant information in a concise and non-redundant manner. In Unit IV, specific nursing process content is discussed as appropriate for given disorders.

Each chapter of Canadian Essentials of Pediatric Nursing focuses on a different aspect of pediatric nursing care. The book is divided into four units, beginning with general concepts related to pediatric nursing and followed by normal growth and development and specifics related to caring for children. The fourth unit focuses on nursing management of alterations in children's health. The content of this text reflects Canadian trends and statistics (when available).

Understanding determinants of sustainability through a realist investigation of a large-scale quality improvement initiative (Lean): A refined program theory

by Flynn, R., Scott, S.D.

Published by Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Systematic review of the use of process evaluations in knowledge translation research

by Rotter, T., Flynn, R., Brooks, H.M., Plesuk, T., Bannar-Martin, K.H., Chambers, T., Hartling, L., Scott, S.D.

Published by Systematic Reviews

November 8, 2019

Engaging children and families in pediatric health research: a scoping review

by Flynn, R., Walton, S., Scott, S.D.

Published by Research Involvement and Engagement

November 4, 2019

Feasibility, user experiences, and preliminary effect of Conversation Cards for Adolescents© on collaborative goal-setting and behavior change: protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

by Kebbe, M., Farmer, A., Dyson, M.P., Scott, S.D., McHugh, T.L.F.

Published by Pilot and Feasibility Studies

A realist evaluation to identify contexts and mechanisms that enabled and hindered implementation and had an effect on sustainability of a lean intervention in pediatric healthcare

by Flynn. R., Rotter, T., Hartfield, D., Newton, A.S., Scott, S.D.

Published by BMC Health Services

A pragmatic trial evaluating the effectiveness of a patient navigator to decrease emergency room utilisation in transition age youth with chronic conditions: the transition navigator trial protocol

by Samuel, S., Dimitropoulos, G., Schraeder, K., Klarenbach, S., Nettel-Aguirre, A., Guilcher, G., Pacaud, D., Pinzon, J., Lang, E., Andrew, G., Zwaigenbaum, L., Scott, S.D., McBrien, K., Hamiwka, L., Mackie, A.

Published by BMJ Open

Fading confidence: a qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences caring for a febrile child

by Thompson, A.P., Le, A., Hartling, L., Scott, S.D.

Published by Journal of Clinical Nursing

January 13, 2020

Digital technology distraction for acute pain in children: a meta-analysis

by Gates, M., Hartling, L., Shulhan-Kilroy, J., MacGregor, T., Guitard, S., Wingert, A., Featherstone, R., Vandermeer, B., Poonai, N., Kircher, J., Perry, S., Graham, T., Scott, S.D., Ali, S.

Published by Pediatrics

Diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity from members of the Canadian College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists

by Cooke, S., Nguyen, V., Anastakis, D., Scott, S.D., Turetsky, M.R., Amirfazli, A., Hearn, A., Milton, C.E., Loewen, L., Smith, E.E., Norris, R., Lavoie, K.L., Aiken, A., Ansari, D., Antle, A.N., Babel, M., Bailey, J., Bernstein, D.M., Birnbaum, R., Bourassa, C., Calcagno, A., Campana, A., Chen, B., Collins, K., Connelly, C.E., Denov., M., Dupont, B., George, E., Gregory-Eaves, I., High, S., Hill, J.M., Jackson, P.L., Jette, N., Jurdjevic, M., Kothari, A., Khairy, P., Lamoureaux, S.A., Ladner, K., Landry, C.R., Legare, F., Lehoux, N., Leuprecht, C., Lieverse, A.R., Luczak, A., Mallory, M.L., Manning, E., Mazalek, A., Murray, S.J., Newman, L.L., Oosterveld, V., Potvin, P., Reimer-Kirkham, S., Rowsell, J., Stacey, D., Tighe, S.L., Vocadlo, D.J., Wilson, A.E., Woolford, A.

Published by FACETS

Biography

Shannon Scott is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation in Child Health at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research program, Evidence in Child Health to enhance Outcomes (ECHO), aims to improve the health outcomes of children Canada through the application of the best research evidence. As a founding Co-Director of Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), a seven-year Knowledge Mobilization Initiative funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence program in Canada, she is actively improving the outcomes of children in need of emergency care in Canada. She is a Distinguished Professor funded by the Stollery Science Lab program and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists in Scientists. Scott has held more than $7 million dollars of research funding as Principal Investigator and over $35 million as a co-investigator. She has published over 140 papers in peer reviewed journals, and has delivered more than 350 presentations around the globe.

Recognition/Reconnaissance

The Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists | Professional

Centennial Award, College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta | Professional

Canadian Nurses’ Association Canada150 RN Award

University of Alberta Alumni Innovation Award | Professional

Distinguished Researcher Award, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute/Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation | Professional

Award of Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Nursing Graduate Students Association | Professional

Excellence in Nursing Research Award, Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing | Professional

Additional Titles and Affiliations

translating Evidence in Child Health to enhance Outcomes (ECHO KT)

Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta

Research Grants

Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids renewal

Organization: Women and Children’s Health Research Institute
Grant amount: 150,000

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2016-2019

A digital knowledge translation tool for otitis media for Canadian and Pakistani parents

Organization: Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Innovation Grant
Grant amount: 50,000

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2016-2018

Integrating evidence and parent engagement to optimize children’s healthcare

Organization: CIHR Foundation Scheme
Grant amount: 2,500,00

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2016-2023

Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) for KT in Child Health

Organization: Government of Canada
Grant amount: 500,000

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2018-2023

Establishing priorities in child health research: giving parents and youth a voice

Organization: Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Innovation Grant
Grant amount: 49,913

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2018-2020

Distinguished Researcher Funding

Organization: Women and Children’s Health Research Institute & Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation
Grant amount: 1,000,000

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2018-2023

Expertise

  • nursing
  • child health
  • pediatric nursing
  • healthcare system
  • education for nurses
  • embedding research in clinical practice
  • patient engagement
  • implementation science
  • knowledge translation

Education/Éducation

  • University of Manitoba
    Nursing
    Bachelors of Nursing, 1994
  • University of Manitoba
    Nursing
    Masters of Nursing, 1998
  • University of Alberta
    Nursing
    PhD, Nursing, 2006
  • University of Alberta
    Pediatrics and Health Promotion Studies
    Post-Doctoral, 2008