Laurie Posey

Dr. Posey is currently supporting The Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative (CNPDI) within the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town to transition Post-Graduate Diplomas in Child Nursing and Critical Care Child to a blended-learning format. She is also the Director of Instructional Design for Nurse Practitioner Technology Enhanced Community Health (NP-TECH) program which is preparing NP students to utilize digital technologies to address social determinants of health and improve care for people living in rural and urban underserved communities. She was the Principle Investigator for two grant-funded studies investigating the use of online and telehealth technologies to provide distance learners with opportunities for real-time, authentic practice and assessment through virtual Standardized Patient (SP) encounters.The first study funded through GW's Cross Disciplinary Research Fund developed and pilot tested a platform to support virtual standardized patient (SP) simulations. Virtual Standardized Patient Portal that wiintegrate an open-source Electronic Health Record (EHR) into the Adobe Connect web-conferencing platform.The second study funded by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing's Center for Regulatory Excellence compared the educational outcomes of face-to-face and telehealth-enabled SP encounters.

• Posey, L. and Lyons, L. (2010). The instructional design of online collaborative learning. In Collaborative Learning: Methodology, Types of Interactions and Techniques. Hauppauge, NT: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
• Pintz, C & Posey, L (2013). Preparing students for graduate study: An eLearning approach. Nurse Education Today, 33(7), 734-738.
• Posey, L. (2013). Best practices in blended learning: snapshots from a hybrid bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) program. In Jan Herrington et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2013 (pp. 350-355). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved March 25, 2014 from http://www.editlib.org/p/111979
• Posey, L., Davis, S., Sheinglold, B. and Briggs, L. (2014). Communities of inquiry in online nurse practitioner education. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 10 (10), pp. 77-86.
• Posey, L. & Pintz, C. (2014) Easing students’ transition to online graduate education. Distance Learning, 11 (1), 63-66. (Invited Paper)
• Posey, L., Plack, M., Snyder, R., Feur, M., Dinneen, P. and Wiss, A. (2015). Developing a pathway for an institution wide e-portfolio program. International Journal of ePortfolio. 5(1), 75-92.
• Milman, N., Posey, L., Pintz, C. & Zhou, P. (2015). Online master’s students’ perceptions of institutional supports and resources: Initial survey results. Online Learning Journal, 19(4).
• Posey, L. & Egerton, E. (2016). Design with evaluation in mind: Assuring quality in a newly blended nursing program. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 6(1), 9-15.
• Posey, L. & Pintz, C. (2016). Transitioning a bachelor of science in nursing program to blended learning: Successes, challenges & outcomes. Nursing Education in Practice.
• Posey, L. & Lyons, L. (2017). Harnessing technology: Enhancing learning in the clinic and the classroom. In Plack, M. and Driscoll, M. Teaching and Learning in Physical Therapy: From Classroom to Clinic (2^nd Edition). Thorofare, NJ: Slack, Inc.
• Lunsford, B. & Posey, L. (2017): Geriatric education utilizing a palliative care framework, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2017.1285293.
• Wiss, A.C., DeLoia, J.A., Posey, L., Waight, N., Friedman, L. (2018). Faculty development for online learning using a cognitive apprenticeship model. International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, 2(1).
• Posey, L., Pintz, C., Zhou, P., Lewis, K., Slaven-Lee, P. & Chen, C. (2018). Comparing nurse practitioner student diagnostic reasoning outcomes in telehealth and face-to-face standardized patient encounters. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 9, (3) 1-9.
• Bryant, T., & Posey, L. (2019). Evaluating transfer of continuing education to nursing practice. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 50(8), 375–380. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20190717-09
• Posey, L., Pintz, C., Zhou, Q., Lewis, K., & Slaven-Lee, P. (2020). Nurse practitioner student perceptions of face-to-face and telehealth standardized patient simulations. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 10(4), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2155-8256(20)30012-0
• Napolitano, M., Lynch, S., Mavredes, M., Shambon, B., & Posey, L. (2020). Evaluating an interactive digital intervention for college weight gain prevention. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2020.04.007
• Napolitano, M., Lynch, S., Mavredes, M., Shambon, B., & Posey, L. (in press). Formative work to design a digital learning self-assessment and feedback tool to prevent weight gain among college students. Digital Health. Accepted 11/18/2020.

• Fischler School of Education and Human Services, Nova Southeastern University – Doctor of Education in Instructional Technology and Distance Education (2007)
• The University of Maryland, Baltimore County – Master of Arts in Instructional Systems Development (1992)
• Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University – Bachelor of Arts in Producing for the Electronic Media (1982)

• Educational Research
• Health Care Simulation
• Informatics
• Quality Improvement
• Telemedicine

• Adaptability
• Strategic
• Includer
• Ideation
• Relator