Newark, New Brunswick, & Blackwood, NJ
Interim Director of Advanced Practice Simulation and Assistant Professor
Newark
SSB 1025C
(973) 972-1702
Dr. Kathleen Horan is the Interim Director of Advanced Practice Simulation and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Simulation and Clinical Learning. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, through the ANCC, a Certified Nurse Educator through the NLN and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She currently works to coordinate and facilitate simulation activities, including contextual skills practice, high-fidelity and hybrid simulation, and formative and summative activities involving standardized patients, for the nurse practitioner programs. She serves as the course lead for Advanced Health Assessment. She is also involved in several interprofessional education activities involving undergraduate students in the School of Nursing as well as students in the School of Health Professions and the School of Dental Medicine.
She is a long-term clinician and educator with extensive work in clinical practice as a registered nurse, advanced practice nurse and/or clinical instructor for nursing students in the areas of maternal-child, pediatrics, cardiology, and critical care. Prior to coming to Rutgers University, Dr. Horan worked as an assistant professor and undergraduate level four coordinator at William Paterson University, and associate professor and chairperson of the nursing program at County College of Morris. She has taught a broad range of didactic courses online and face to face for both pre-licensure and graduate students, including extensive use of simulation. These roles in academia and administration of nursing programs also helped her to gain an understanding of nursing administrative activities, psychometrics, curriculum development and accreditation.
Dr. Horan is committed to innovation in nursing education and simulation. She has published and presented various topics related to nursing education and transition to practice. She also works per-diem in a nurse residency program as an educator, assisting with the support of novice nurses as well as involvement in program related research and accreditation projects.
Dr. Horan is co-chair of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) Nursing Education Research Interest Group and serves an active peer reviewer for Nurse Educator and BMC Nursing. She received the NISOD Award for Teaching and Leadership Excellence in 2017. She is a member of Sigma, ENRS, the NLN, ANA/NJSNA, ANPD and AACN.