
Ronnie S. Sheridan, EdD, MSN-Ed, RN, CCRN Alumnus
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing, Phoenix Campus
Expertise/Specializations
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
Academic Appointments
Department
- Nursing - Bachelors
Position
- Assistant Professor
Teaching Activity
- Undergraduate: Community, clinical instruction
- Undergraduate: Critical Care, classroom instruction
- Undergraduate: Leadership, classroom instruction
- Undergraduate: Medical Surgical, clinical instruction
- Undergraduate: Psychiatric Mental Health, clinical and classroom instruction
- Undergraduate: Preceptorship, clinical instruction
Biography
Dr. Sheridan joined the faculty at Creighton University College of Nursing in 2018, located at the Phoenix Campus. She is a member of the Undergraduate Accelerated Nursing Faculty, specializing in psychiatric mental health and critical care. Her primary research interests include classroom instruction, active learning, flipped classroom, students with disabilities, technology in learning, and curriculum and instruction best practices to achieve positive student outcomes. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Sheridan is active with a number of specialty task forces working on advancing both student experience and student outcomes. Dr. Sheridan is currently appointed to the research committee and undergraduate curriculum and assessment committee in the College of Nursing. Dr. Sheridan is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau, serving as the Vice President of the Phoenix Campus. In addition, she is an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nursing, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and the Arizona Nurses Association.
Publications and Presentations
General
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Publications
- Jacqueline Williams Pending Acceptance: Cinematic Simulation: An Innovative Approach for Teaching Psychiatric Mental Health, Nursing Education Perspectives, 0000
Presentations
- PENDING Approval - American Psychiatric Nurses Association - Annual Conference Podium Presentation, 2020
- Pending Approval - 31st Annual Iota Tau Research Day Poster Presentation - Cinematic Simulation: An Innovative Strategy for Psychiatric Mental Health Undergraduate Students, 2020
- Non presenting author - The Use of a Scholarship Salong to Encourage Faculty Research Collaboration - 2020 MNRS Annual Research Conference, Illinois, 2020
- 2020 St. Albert's Day Poster Presentation - Cinematic Simulation: An Innovative Strategy for Psychiatric Mental Health Undergraduate Students - University Research Day (Creighton University), 2020
Research and Scholarship
Research and Scholarship Interests
- classroom instruction, active learning, flipped classroom, simulation, students with disabilities, and curriculum and instruction best practices to achieve positive student outcomes
Current Research Projects
- Dr. Sheridan is currently researching cinematic simulation, augmented reality, and classroom instructional methods
Grant Funding Received
- Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Student Learning from Foundational Coursework to the Specialty of Psychiatric Mental Health
- Evaluating Augmented Reality when Teaching Leadership Content to Undergraduate Nursing Students in the Classroom
Awards and Honors
- Spirit of Nightingale Forces of Change Mentorship Award, Global Caring Nurses Foundation, 2009
- Daisy Award Nominee, Daisy Award Committee, 2019