Shelly Bussard
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- Diploma in Nursing, 1996 – Fairview Hospital School of Nursing
- BSN and MSN, 2002 – University of Akron
- PhD in Nursing, 2013 – University of Phoenix
- Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist, Board Certified
- Certified Nurse Educator
- Simulation
- Clinical Judgment
- Adult Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Health Promotion
- Curriculum design
- Effective teaching and learning strategies
- Simulation
- Clinical Judgment
- Evaluation methods
- Lived experience
- Bussard, M. E., Jacobs, L. A., Mahoney, S. A., Davis, L. L., Oberhaus, A. M., & Lavoie, P. (2025). Development of Clinical Judgment in Prelicensure Nursing Students Through Simulation: A Longitudinal Study. Nurse Educator, 50(3):117-122. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001790
- Knippen, K. L, Sears, J. S., Maziar, L., Bussard, M. & Wilken, L. (2024). When COVID hit: Psychosocial impacts and coping strategies among Ohio's public health workforce. Ohio Journal of Public Health, 6(2), ISSN: 2578-6180. https://doi.org/10.18061/ojph.v6i2.9955
- Lavoie, P., Lapierre, A., Deschenes, M., Royere, K., Laliere, H., Khetir, I., Bussard, M. E., & Mailhot, T. (2024). Investigating clinical decision-making in bleeding complications among nursing students: A longitudinal mixed-methods study. Nurse Education in Practice 80(10410):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104140
- Bussard, M.E., & Jacobs, L., (2024). Assessing clinical judgment and AACN domains in self-reflection of video recorded high-fidelity simulation scenarios. Nurse Educator, 00(0):1-7. https://doi:10.1097/NNE.0000000000001704
- Bussard, M. E., Jessee, M. A., El-Banna, M. M., Cantrell, M. A., Alrimawi, I., Marchi, N. M., Gonzalez, L. I., Rischer, K., Coy, M. L., Poledna, M. & Lavoie, P. (2024). Current practices for assessing clinical judgment in nursing students and new graduates: A scoping review. Nurse Education Today, 134(106078), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.106078
- Mahoney, S. & Bussard, M.E. (2023). Relaxation as an educational strategy for stress management and resiliency. Nurse Educator, 49(4), E213-E217. doi:10.1097/NNE.0000000000001568
- Bussard, M.E., & Jacobs, L. (2023, Month). Person-Centered care and clinical judgment: Mapping the AACN essentials with simulation in prelicensure nursing programs. Clinical Simulation in Nursing , 84, 101451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2023.101451
- Bussard, M., & Mahoney, S., (2022). Relaxation room for prelicensure nursing students. Nurse Educator, 47(6), 353. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000001247
- Sears, J., Maziarz, L., Wilken, L. Bussard, M., & Kinnipen, K. (2022). Public Health in the Public Eye: Experiences of Ohio’s Public Health Workforce During COVID-19. Health Promotion Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399221124598
- Bussard, M. (2020). Prelicensure nursing students developing clinical judgment through emotional intelligence: A qualitative interpretive descriptive study. American Journal of Nursing Science, 9(6), 411-416. http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=152&doi=10.11648/j.ajns.20200906.14
- Bussard, M. E., & Lawrence, N. (2019). Role modeling to teach communication and professionalism in prelicensure nursing students. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 14, 219-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2019.04.005
- Bussard, M. E. (2018). Satisfactory Completion of End-of-Course Outcomes Using Simulation. Journal of Nursing Education, 57(8), 489-492. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20180720-07
- Bussard, M. E. (2018). Evaluation of clinical judgment in prelicensure nursing students. Nurse Educator, 43(2), 106-108. DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000432
- Bussard, M. E. (2017). Postdebriefing activities following simulation. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 12(3), 220–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2017.03.010
- Bussard, M. (2016). Self-reflection of video recorded high-fidelity simulations and development of clinical judgment. Journal of Nursing Education,55(9), 522-527. http://doi:10.3928/01484834-20160816-06
- Bussard, M. (2015). High-Fidelity Simulation to teach accountability to prelicensure nursing students. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 11, 425-430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2015.05.009
- Bussard, M. (2015). Evaluation of clinical judgment within Reflective journals of Pre-licensure nursing student. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(8), 451-454. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20141224-05
- Bussard, M. (2015). Clinical judgment in reflective journals of pre-licensure nursing students. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(1), 36-40.
- Bussard, M. (2013). Interpretive description of clinical judgment within reflective journals of nursing students participating in high-fidelity simulation (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest. (3578583).
- Bussard, M. (2002). Reteplase: Nursing implications for catheter-directed thrombolytic therapy for peripheral vascular occlusions, Critical Care Nurse, 22(3), 57-63.
- NLN 2022 Year of the Nurse Educator, June 2022, nominee
- NLN Mary Adelaid Nutting Award for Outstanding Teaching or Leadership in Nursing Education, May, 2022, nominee
- Outstanding Faculty Excellence Award, Capella University, February, 2020
- Faculty Spotlight, Capella University, NLN Magnet Conference, September, 2018
- People’s Choice Award, International Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning, Poster; Satisfactory Development and Progression of Clinical Judgment Using Simulation, June 15, 2018
- Excellence in Academia related to Simulation, Nominee, International Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning, March 2018
- Excellence in Nursing Education, National Council of Hospital Based Schools of Nursing, March, 2014
- Excellence in Education, Ohio Magazine, December, 2011
- Nursing Excellence, nominee, St. John Westshore Hospital, Westlake, OH, 2003
- Sigma Theta Tau, inducted in 2003. Delta Omega Chapter
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