| NLN Advanced Simulation Workshop
Pre-Conference Workshop
The 4th NLN Technology Conference
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
October 29, 2009 (1:00pm - 4:30pm)
October 30, 2009 (8:30am to 12pm)
 Sharon
Decker, PhD, RN, CCRN, ACNS-BC, ANEF
Professor and Director of Clinical Simulations, Texas
Tech University Health Sciences Center
Sharon Decker’s research and scholarship is related to how simulation,
as an innovative teaching learning strategy facilitates the development
of critical and reflective thinking skills. Dr. Decker has presented
at multiple conferences and provided consultation to nursing schools
throughout the United States about the integration of simulation into
various curricula. She has been the recipient of numerous grants to
support her research and has been recognized multiple times for her
excellence in teaching.
 Pamela
R. Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF
Pamela R. Jeffries, DSN, RN, FAAN, Associate
Dean at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has over 25 years
of teaching experience. She has received numerous university, national,
and international teaching awards for her endeavors. She is currently
the Project Director of a 3-year simulation study funded by the National
League for Nursing and the Laerdal Corporation. With her project director
position, she has led a group of 8 project coordinators in a multi-site
research study with several of the highlights being the development
of a theoretically-based simulation framework, development of two-quantitative
instruments to measure simulation design features and educational
practices in simulation, and four phases of research data from 8 sites
supporting the use of simulations in nursing curricula. Jeffries’
research focus, in addition to simulations has been in online learning
development, implementation, and evaluation, innovative teaching strategies,
and learning outcomes associated with these innovative strategies.
Jeffries’s grant experience includes her role as the PI on two
NIH SBIR and STTR grants, Co-PI on a 3-year Department of Educational
grant (FIPSE), and PI on an NLN grant and several internal grants
totaling over 1.2 million dollars. Jeffries has numerous publications,
peer-reviewed presentations, and serves as a consultant nationally
and internationally on simulation design, implementation, and development
and online teaching and learning strategies and evaluation.
Clare Lamontagne MS, RN, CNE
Professor of
Nursing, Springfield Technical Community College
Professor Lamontagne has taught in the nursing program at Springfield
Technical Community College since 1988. Prior to that she taught at
Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, MA. She graduated summa
cum laude from the University of Connecticut in 1987 with a Master
of Science Degree in Nursing. She received her Bachelor of Science
in Nursing from American International College and her Associate Degree
in Nursing from Springfield Technical Community College. She is currently
working on her PhD in nursing at the University of Massachusetts.
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