UCF College of Nursing

“Student success is enhanced when they have access to advising, information and resources,” said Jessica Simmons, EdD, assistant dean of student affairs at the UCF College of Nursing who has spent more than a decade at the university improving access for prospective and current students. Simmons recently received a 2018 Outstanding Advising Award Winner in […]

Díaz was honored for her contributions to innovative teaching and learning strategies, academic leadership and nursing education research. BY COLLEGE OF NURSING Desiree Díaz, a healthcare simulation educator and assistant professor of nursing, has been inducted into the prestigious Academy of Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing (NLN). Díaz, who was one of […]

BY COLLEGE OF NURSING It’s a fact. Children behave and communicate differently than adults. For healthcare providers, the verbal and nonverbal nuances of children’s behavior can be critically important for diagnosis and treatment. However, current training tools are limited in their capability to replicate a pediatric patient. Standardized child patients, or actors, are not readily […]

By UCF College of Nursing Two research projects using healthcare simulation have received $10,000 Program Innovation Awards from UCF for the What’s Next, Quality Enhancement Plan. The grants are awarded to projects that seek to improve student learning outcomes by making changes either to existing programs or by creating new programs. Acute Care A team led […]

U.S. News & World Report ranks UCF above Harvard, Princeton, Duke and Johns Hopkins as most innovative in its annual list of best colleges. By Laura J. Cole | September 10, 2018 For the second year in a row, the University of Central Florida was named among the “most innovative schools” in the nation, recognizing […]

By UCF College of Nursing After conducting a nationwide search, the UCF College of Nursing has appointed Joellen Edwards to chair of the Department of Nursing Systems. In that role, Edwards will oversee and manage the programs that prepare students for leadership roles within a health care system. “Her leadership in the fields of health policy and rural […]

The academic realignments of two new UCF colleges and an interdisciplinary school go into effect today. BY KRISTY MCALLISTER | JULY 2, 2018 CF launched two new colleges and a new interdisciplinary school today that will enhance opportunities for academic excellence in the new Academic Health Sciences Center in Lake Nona and the UCF Downtown campus in […]

By UCF College of Nursing College of Nursing Joins Interdisciplinary Center at Hub for Medical Innovation As part of its vision to reinvent 21st-century higher education, UCF is leveraging its strengths in healthcare to create an Academic Health Sciences Center on the 50-acre state-of-the-art UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona Medical City in Orlando. […]

By UCF College of Medicine | June 15, 2018 An interprofessional healthcare team of 51 students, faculty and volunteers provided primary care and surgeries for more than 500 patients in a remote village of Peru this summer –  a 41 percent increase in the patients seen last year. The College of Medicine student group MedPACt […]

By UCF College of Nursing | June 14, 2018 Mindi Anderson, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CHSE-A, ANEF, FAAN Mindi Anderson, an associate professor in the College of Nursing, has been honored with the Excellence in Academia Award from the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL). The annual award recognizes educators who have demonstrated […]