UNTHSC College of Nursing

Come tour HSC's new Regional Simulation Center Annex with Karen Meadows and CON's Sr. Associate Dean Elizabeth Wells-Beede. The new facility was designed to provide real-life clinical scenarios our BSN students and other students across HSC. #Nursing #Simulation #NurseEducation

Save the date -- March 24! Our next guest for the College of Nursing Lecture Series is Vistasp Karbhari, PhD, presenting "AI as a Catalyst: Transforming Teaching, Research and the Future of Higher Education." Dr. Karbhari served as the eighth president of the University of Texas at Arlington. A recognized thought leader in the integration of technology, including AI, to enhance academic and research efficiency, he is an advocate for high-quality digital learning and immersive education, ensuring continuous knowledge advancement for all learners. Join us in person (lunch provided) or virtually. Register here: https://bit.ly/3X6K2HR

Nurses have long been at the forefront of creative problem solving and innovation in health care -- from reducing deaths from communicable diseases to creating the crash cart. Dean Cindy Weston recently shared stories of nurse innovators whose ideas revolutionized care with Gary Schoeniger and HSC Next. Our MSN in Nursing Practice Innovation is the first-of-its-kind program in Texas and is cultivating nurse innovation and leadership. Applications for fall 2025 are now open! Learn more at the link in our profile. #Nurses #Innovation #BSN #MSN

Meet MSN in Nurse Practice Innovation student Hollin Macklin! Hollin is a nurse manager at HSC Health and shares what she's gained so far after the first semester of our program. Read more about Hollin's journey here: https://lnkd.in/gBGsQP98 And if you're interested in joining our next MSN NPI cohort, applications are open! Learn more at unthsc.edu/Nursing. #RN #BSN #MSN #Nursing

A huge congratulations to CON Senior Associate Dean Elizabeth Wells-Beede on her recent induction to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy. She's one of only 135 fellows from around the world to hold this honor. Dr. Wells-Beede’s extensive career includes leadership in nursing education, health care simulation and patient safety initiatives. At the College of Nursing, she has been instrumental in integrating simulation into nursing curricula, providing students with immersive and hands-on learning experiences that prepare them for the complexities of real-world health care. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gNM2-6cq

We're still buzzing from the last two days of On-Campus Intensives for our inaugural MSN in Nurse Practice Innovation students! These future nurse innovators participated in interprofessional education opportunities with College of Health Professions Physical Therapy students, simulated rotations with a wide range of standardized patients ... and more. Applications are now open for our Fall 2025 cohort! #Nursing #NurseEducation #HealthInnovation

We're thrilled to have Dr. Shopha Tserotas, Ph.D., MS, RN, CHSE, ACUE recently join our CON faculty. With more than two decades of nursing experience and over 10 years as a faculty member teaching across the undergraduate curriculum, Dr. Tserotas’s work focuses on advancing simulation-based education. Her Ph.D. dissertation specifically examined the impact of serious-gaming simulation in prebriefing with high-fidelity simulations. She most recently served as the Director of Simulation at the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University enhancing simulation-based learning across multiple undergraduate and graduate programs. Welcome, Dr. Tserotas! #Nursing #NurseEducator #NurseEducation

Welcome to one of our new hires for 2025, Dr. Bridgette Pullis! Dr. Pullis comes to the CON from the Cizik School of Nursing at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston where she served as director of the Veterans Bachelor of Science program. A certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse, Dr. Pullis has 30 years of experience in community health nursing and has been a nurse educator for over 20 years teaching community health nursing. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, La., and holds a Master of Science in Community Health Nursing and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Studies from Texas Woman’s University. #Nursing #NurseEducator #CommunityHealth

Woo-hoo! We cheered on our new Traditional BSN students today as they headed to their first class. Can you tell we're just a *little* excited?! #BSN #NurseEducation #UNTHSC

It's finally happening! We are BEYOND EXCITED to welcome our first cohort for our Traditional BSN program to campus!! Today during orientation for our 30 new undergrads, Dean Cindy Weston led a lamplighting ceremony to welcome them to our program and to the field of nursing. We cannot wait for their first day of class -- in-person -- on Monday! #Nursing #UNTHSC #RN