Shawna Butler

Shawna Butler is a nurse-attorney, patient safety/risk specialist, and nursing/healthcare law educator at the university level. She focuses on protecting, educating, and supporting clinicians to enhance patient care quality. Her clinical experience includes implementing electronic health records (Epic) at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as an informatics analyst, alongside continuing bedside nursing practice in acute care telemetry on a per diem basis.

• Research & Clinical Expertise: Risk management, patient safety, healthcare law, legal/regulatory issues, medical errors, adverse events, nurse regulation, informatics, and clinician support after adverse events or moral burnout.
• Doctoral Project: Explored Just Culture, second victimization, and clinician support systems.
• Public Engagement: Writes a Legal Awareness column in a nursing journal.