She is the Associate Director of Health Quality Programs and the Deputy Director/ Healthcare Quality, Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration. 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 the area of quality and safety in healthcare. She is familiar with the e-learning environment, distance learning, virtual clinical excursions (VCEs) and simulation.