Best Practices for Nurse Educators – Tips and Tricks for Success

Hollie is an NLN Certified Nurse Educator and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She brings a diverse nursing background and has teaching experience in lab, clinical, simulation, as well as didactic teaching experience both in person and online and she has taught at all levels (LPN, ADN, BSN, and Graduate). Hollie has studied and implemented the Team-Based Learning approach and is an advocate for bringing clinical to the classroom to improve critical thinking and clinical judgement. She has expertise in curriculum design as well as program evaluation and accreditation. In her role of Nursing Education and Implementation Manger, Hollie is proud to be a small cog in the wheel that is driving nursing into the future!

Julie Byrne, MSN, RN, CRNP is a family nurse practitioner who has clinical experience working in pediatric oncology and palliative care. After having her first daughter in 2010, she transitioned into nursing education, working for the last 14 years as adjunct faculty in Ohio University’s RN to BSN program, as well as eight years with Shadow Health and Elsevier as a Nurse Educator. In her current role, she is able to do what she loves – create tools to help both students and faculty feel confident and proficient with Elsevier’s products so they can make the most of their educational experience.



Julie is a sports enthusiast, lover of the outdoors, and good books. She lives in Mars, PA, just north of Pittsburgh, with her husband and three daughters.