Shawn W. Blouin, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, CCRN
, will present
"Advancing scholarship through evidence translation: The role of a DNP prepared advanced practice nurse"
at noon, Tuesday, Feb. 12, in MDN 2005
, as part of the USF College of Nursing's Faculty Candidate Presentation Series. Dr. Blouin is applying for the role of assistant professor within the adult gerontology acute care concentration.
Dr. Blouin currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at the USF College of Nursing. He is a DNP-prepared and residency-trained adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner with 14 years of clinical experience in emergency and critical care medicine. He is currently practicing in an NP-led intensivist program which utilizes virtual support from collaborating health care providers.
Dr. Blouin earned his bachelor's in nursing from the University of Central Florida, before earning his master's in nursing and DNP from USF.
Since joining the USF College of Nursing in 2015, Dr. Blouin has served as a heart failure research coordinator, graduate teaching assistant, and doctoral student consultant to the Dean Search Committee. He founded the Society of Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Students at USF.
His primary goal as an educator, driven by more than a decade of teaching experience, is to empower students with the knowledge needed to bridge the gap between evidence-based clinical practice and caring for the diverse needs of patients. In 2018, he developed new course content that explored the 2018 MACRA Final Rule for the Healthcare Policy course and implemented an educational intervention to improve the learning gains of doctoral students.
Dr. Blouin's scholarly work focuses on the prevention of anoxic brain injuries after sudden cardiac arrest using temperature management systems to induce hypothermia. His most recent scholarly work, "Revitalizing a Targeted Temperature Management Program in a Community Hospital," was a longitudinal quality improvement project aimed at improving functional survival among cardiac arrest victims through hospital infrastructure redesign.
