People Group Archives: Simulation, Technology & Modeling

Instructor Sara Snyder is a seasoned healthcare professional with a rich and diverse background in emergency nursing and a passion for advancing healthcare practices. A Certified Emergency Nurse, she has served in emergency departments and ICUs across the country for nearly two decades. Eager to share her knowledge and expertise, Snyder earned her MSN in […]

A registered nurse for more than 30 years, Kimberly Scalise is experienced in a range of teaching modalities including, online, didactic and clinical, but her primary focus is healthcare simulation education. She is committed to the advancement of professional nursing education through the use of simulation-based learning to develop students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes to […]

Education DNP, University of South Florida MSN, Florida Atlantic University BSN, University of Central Florida Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Post Master’s Certificate, University of Florida Selected Professional Activities National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

Assistant Professor Rui Xie holds appointments in both the UCF College of Nursing and the UCF College of Sciences in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. His research encompasses the domains of statistics, biostatistics, machine learning and public health. His primary focus revolves around advancing statistical sketching and sampling techniques tailored for handling large-scale […]

Amanda Houston is a lecturer at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing, and two-time Knight nurse alumna. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and focused her PhD dissertation on the impact of simulation in undergraduate nursing education, looking specifically at knowledge retention and cognitive load. Her continued research interests focus on the […]

Virtual and augmented reality; human tracking systems; and human surrogates for training and telepresence.

Childhood obesity prevention and intervention; School nursing; Teaching strategies in nursing education.

Older adults; Cancer; Symptom management and experience; Representation of symptoms and illness; Quality of life; Technology-based interventions; Nursing student and lay person knowledge of cancer and end of life issues.

Emergency and flight nursing; Implementation of clinical simulation in nursing education; Community nursing.

Adult learning; Simulation: Strategies for nursing students to self-advocate and manage conflicting demands and interruptions.