Tish King RN, BSN, MN

Tish King is a registered nurse, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. She has been nursing for over three decades. She graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1989 with a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) and completed her master’s degree in nursing from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in 1994. Her thesis was a qualitative study called Nursing Students’ Perceptions of the Clinical Triad Preceptorial Relationship: A Descriptive Study”. In this work, her passion for humanistic, student-centered, responsive nursing education blossomed. Tish has worked in nursing education ever since and feels privileged to watch her students grow and develop.

Tish considers herself as a “family” nurse, with an extensive clinical background in pediatrics, pediatric critical care, neonatal critical care, adult critical care, school health, and community health nursing. Her teaching specialties involve family nursing, teaching and learning, assessment, leadership, senior learning in preceptorships, and community health practice.

Her current clinical practice is in school-based health promotion. Within her clinical teaching practice, she has been responsible for the initiation and maintenance of two community partnerships within school health (St. Luke School 2002-current; BJM 2016-current).  In these partnerships, she and her nursing students work with and for communities. The program is called Safe SHIP (Safe, School Health Improvement Project). The model/scope of practice is a comprehensive school health approach including relationship building for advocacy, health education, health promotion, policy development, and media production. The Safe SHIP program has been nominated for the Premier’s Award of Teaching Excellence in Saskatchewan on two different occasions.

As a nurse educator, Tish embraces a teaching philosophy based on the principles of empowerment education, critical social theory, adult learning, humanism, co-scholarship and mutuality, mentorship, learner inclusiveness, and teacher responsiveness. Tish is passionate about relationship-rich education. The work of teaching and mentoring inspires, humbles, challenges, and rewards Tish daily. She strives with intent to provide educational service with integrity, professionalism, and caring.

• Nursing education SOTL
• Family nursing & family health
• Family centered care
• Clinical partnerships
• Preceptorship & mentorship
• Program planning
• Comprehensive school health youth engagement
• Health promotion
• Intersectoral project and partnership
• Curriculum development

• Qualitative
• Program Planning, Scoping Reviews

• NURS 202: Assessment and Components of Care I
• NURS 203: Assessment and Components of Care II
• NURS 204: Communication and Professional Relationships
• NURS 220: Concepts of Patient and Family Centered Care
• NURS 304: Family Nursing
• NURS 321: Therapeutic Interventions for Individuals and Groups
• NURS 322: Leadership in Education and Care
• NURS 431: Community Nursing Practice
• NURS 450: Practice Integration

Tish has served on several boards throughout her career. 

• Present, Saskatchewan Provincial representative on the Community Health Nurses of Canada board
• Present, Chair of the CHNC Membership Committee
• Standing Member of the Standards and Competencies Committee.

• 2018 National CASN Excellence in Nursing Education (Non-Tenured) Award
• 2021, the Provost’s College Award for Outstanding teaching