Kathleen Horan, PhD, FNP-BC, CNE

Kathleen Horan

Assistant Professor and Clinical Learning Facilitator

Newark

SSB 1025C

(973) 972-1702

  • Division of Simulation and Clinical Learning

Dr. Kathleen Horan is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Learning Facilitator in the Center for Clinical Learning. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner, through the ANCC and a Certified Nurse Educator through the NLN. She currently works to coordinate and facilitate the 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 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.

Prior to coming to Rutgers University, she worked as an assistant professor and undergraduate level four coordinator at William Paterson University, and an 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. 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 on 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 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.

Education & Training

  • PhD in Nursing, Seton Hall University
  • Post-MSN Certification in Nursing Education, UMDNJ/Ramapo College
  • MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, Columbia University
  • BSN, Villanova University

Research/Scholarly Interests

  • Fostering a successful transition to professional practice, including improved stress management, resilience, and prevention of burnout in nursing students and practicing nurses.
  • Promotion of active learning and communication skills in simulation & scaffolding learning activities across the curriculum to build competency.
  • Approved to begin and co-chair the first Nursing Education Research Interest Group (RIG) in the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) in 2024.
  • Serves as a peer reviewer for Nurse Educator.

Clinical Specialties

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.

Recent Research Activities

  • Burnout and Psychological Capital in Baccalaureate Nursing Students Enrolled in Clinical Rotations, Seton Hall University, dissertation research, quantitative, complete. 2022.  https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2996/
  • An Exploration of Novice Nurses Transitioning to Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Morristown Medical Center, research team member, qualitative, complete. 2020.

Recent Publications