Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Simulation
University of Illinois Chicago
Wilmette, IL, United States
Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Vanderzwan graduated with her BSN from the University of Iowa (‘02) and both her MS (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, 2006) and DNP (2017) from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She has been faculty at UIC Nursing since 2012 and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Learning Resource Center (CLRC) and Schwartz Simulation Laboratory. Clinically, Dr. Vanderzwan works as an acute care nurse practitioner in Cardiology at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Dr Vanderzwan is a former INACSL Fellow (‘21-22), past recipient of the INACSL Debra Spunt Research Grant (‘22) and a CHSE. Dr. Vanderzwan’s area of scholarship focuses on handoff education among prelicensure nursing students using simulated distractors and interprofessional education (IPE) in simulation. Her work has been internationally, nationally and regionally dissemmiated. Dr. Vanderzwan is vice-chair of the Advanced Practice Provider Special Interest Group for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), co-chair of the INACSL Debra Spunt/In Kind Research Grant Sub Committee and vice-chair of the INACSL Endorsement Committee.
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F21 - Interruption Management Strategies for Nursing Students: Is simulation the key?
Friday, June 20, 2025
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM MST