People Group Archives: Simulation

Instructor Kelsey Hickson joined the UCF College of Nursing as an Adjunct Instructor in 2023 teaching clinical courses, and joined full time in 2024. Previous teaching experience includes four years of hospital-based education and her clinical experience includes orthopedics, medical-surgical, and travel nursing. She is board certified in Nursing Professional Development and Orthopedic Nursing. She […]

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 […]

Since earning her BSN in 2006, lecturer Latonia Green has held a variety of clinical appointments as a Registered Nurse, Head Nurse and Nurse Manager at hospitals in Tennessee and Florida, most recently as a Nurse Manager at AdventHealth East Orlando, a role in which she directed and managed 24-hour clinical operations of two observation […]

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 […]

Amanda “Mandi” 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 […]

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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.

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.