Catharine Schiller

Rural Health Services | Health Sciences | Ethics | Health | Medical assistance in dying, fibromyalgia, nursing regulation, concept analysis, medication errors, healthcare law and ethics, nursing jurisprudence, nursing standards of practice.

Dr. Schiller is licensed as a practicing Registered Nurse in British Columbia, a nonpracticing Lawyer in British Columbia, and a nonpracticing Registered Nurse in Ontario. Dr. Schiller is currently the Chair, School of Nursing at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is also a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, teaching both undergraduate and graduate degree nursing students about healthcare law, bioethics, and nursing leadership. Dr. Schiller completed her PhD (Health Sciences) at the University of Northern British Columbia with a dissertation focus on medication errors committed by undergraduate nursing students. Dr. Schiller's past experience includes her practice as a Registered Nurse at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and as a Lawyer in the health law department of a large Toronto law firm where she regularly advised hospitals and their nursing staff on various professional responsibility, privacy, contractual and risk management issues. She has also acted as an Investigator for The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and as In-House Legal Counsel for Trillium Health Centre and 3M Canada. Schiller, Dr. Catharine's curriculum vitae