Susan G. Forneris, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN (she/her/hers)

Director, Division for Innovation in Education Excellence
National League for Nursing
Washington, District of Columbia

Susan Gross Forneris PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE-A, FAAN is currently the Director for the National League for Nursing Division for Innovation in Education Excellence, Washington, DC. Selected for inclusion in the 2010 inaugural group of NLN Simulation Leaders, she has been working in the field of simulation since 2003. She has traveled globally working closely with many nursing education influencers to further develop faculty skills in the use of simulation best practices in teaching and learning. She has been instrumental in the design and implementation of NLN faculty development courses focused on simulation pedagogy foundations, debriefing, curriculum integration and evaluation.

Dr. Forneris’ expertise is in curriculum development and instructional design with emphasis on critical thinking. Her publications focus on the development and use of reflective teaching strategies to enhance critical thinking. She co-authored the publication Critical Conversations: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking and Critical Conversations: From Monologue to Dialogue.

Susan began her nursing career with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth MN. She completed both her master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in nursing education and educational psychology. She is a former Professor of Nursing at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN.

Presentation(s):

• 705 - Owning our Situational Awareness: The Building Blocks of Clinical Reasoning

  Saturday, November 19, 2022
  7:30 AM – 8:20 AM Central