Clinical Associate Professor
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN, United States
Gail Carlson Kost
MSN, RN
Valparaiso University
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation
Professor Kost re-joined the College of Nursing and Health Professions, CONHP faculty in 2015. Her clinical expertise is in the area of critical care, worked as a critical care staff nurse and critical care clinical nurse specialist CNS.
She has been in academia for nearly thirty years. She taught at Valparaiso University in the CONHP 1990-2000 and returned to Valparaiso in 2015 – present. In 2000 – 2010 she taught in the School of Nursing at Indiana University on the IUPUI Campus.
In 2007, she received the Indy Star – Salute to Nurses: Inaugural, Nurse Educator of the Year Award. Her present teaching interests are in the area of simulation. She began her work in the area of simulation under the direction of Dr. Pamela Jeffries at Indiana University. She directed the opening of a Simulation Center at the south campus of Community Health Network Hospitals in Indianapolis. She has developed interdisciplinary simulations that led to chest pain national certification and a Trauma Level III certification.
She has co-authored a chapter in Teaching in Nursing: A guide for Faculty chapter Teaching in the Clinical Setting in editions II, III, IV. Co-authored a chapter Teaching-Learning in the Psychomotor Domain in Building a Science of Nursing Education: Foundation for Evidence-Based Teaching-Learning. She co-designed a web course in collaboration with NLN and Indiana University: Clinical Faculty: A New Practice Role. 2021: Awarded the Joyce Hagen Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Nursing and Health Professions: Collaborative Research with Faculty from McCormick School of Nursing, Payap University Chiang Mia, Thailand.
Kessler, T. A. & Kost, G. C. (2021). An Innovative Approach for Using Cross-Cultural, Collaboration Simulation during Undergraduate Nursing Study Abroad Exchange. Simulation in Nursing, 61, 14-22.
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Structured Debriefing to Increase Next Generation NCLEX Preparedness: a Tool for Simulation
Thursday, June 15, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM EDT