Teresa Beaudry
Holyoke Community College, USA
Biography
Teresa Beaudry, MSN, RN is currently a full-time Professor in Nursing Education at Holyoke Community College and adjunct clinical educator for the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She currently teaches in a combined Practical and Associate Nursing Education Program with additional experience working with the bachelorette and second bachelor’s degree in nursing education. She has been teaching since 2007 with a focus on Women’s, Newborn and Family Health, Pediatrics, and Medical Surgical Acute and Complex Care. She received her BSN and MSN degree from American International College. She has been in the leadership role as course coordinator and program chair. She has participated in nursing program development and facilitating curriculum changes, accreditation with ACEN, and compliance with the MA-BORN, Exam writing success, faculty mentoring and use of simulation in nursing education. Through her passion to make transitioning in nursing education more fluent she participated in the Massachusetts Higher Education grant in the development of an educational program to promote further education of the Licensed Practical Nurse to Associate of Science in Nursing program and the Associate of Science Nurse to the Bachelorette level. Her teaching philosophy incorporates the importance of the art and science of nursing with an emphasis on critical-thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills. With the use of advanced technology in education she has integrated the use of high fidelity simulation in the classroom, to enhance student understanding and comprehension of the nurse’s role in clinical nursing practice. This experiential learning style brings clinical into the classroom and has increased student participation, eagerness to learn and ability to apply theory to clinical practice
Abstract
Abstract : Novel approach to educating nursing students in perinatal care using a multipatient simulation