Dr. Kara Sealock is a tenured, senior instructor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary with a focus in adult education. She has extensive experience teaching students from years 1 to 4 in both clinical and theory. Dr. Sealock is passionate about pathophysiology, assessment, and pharmacology content addressing populations across the lifespan, supporting students as they transition from student to practitioner, and student success on NCLEX-RN.

To the educator role, Dr. Sealock brings strong clinical nursing experience in adult critical care (ICU/CCU), medical-surgical, gerontology, and clinical research (cardiovascular and endocrinology).

Dr. Sealock's research interests include adult learning with specific attention to cognitive levels of learning in clinical and theoretical environments (critical thinking/clinical judgement), student success on NCLEX-RN and faculty development, relational inquiry, and empathy. She has presented at the local, provincial, and national level.

Dr. Sealock has been an NCSBN item writer for the NCLEX and NGN. She is also the NGN faculty training lead at the University of Calgary. Along with being one of the co-authors of our Lilley's Pharmacology for Canadian Health Care Practice, Dr. Sealock serves as Elsevier's Canadian NCLEX-NGN subject matter expert.

Dr. Sealock holds the 2019 Faculty of Nursing, Pursuit of Excellence Award- Committee's Choice, and was recently awarded the 2022/23 Pat Griffin Research Grant by the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN).