Associate Professor

146 University Hall, Hamilton Campus
513-785-7746
beyerda@MiamiOH.edu

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Education

• MSN, University of Cincinnati with a focus in Community Health Nursing
• BSN, University of Cincinnati
• Diploma of Nursing, Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing, Cincinnati

Professional Experience

Prior to coming to Miami, Debbie taught at the Good Samaritan Hospital College of Nursing and Health Science. Debbie worked for Good Samaritan Hospital as a staff nurse on a variety of units. Her experience included telemetry/ICU Stepdown, Occupational Health, the Coronary Care Unit, and Emergency Room. Debbie remained as a Staff PRN nurse to inform her teaching upon coming to Miami. Debbie has also worked on a Long Term Care floor at the Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital.

Teaching

• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Gerontology Nursing
• Cultural and Global Nursing
• Test Taking Skills for the Nursing Student

Service

Debbie’s focus in service is to Communities and to the nursing student. Debbie began her service with the health education of the underserved undocumented and Latin America population in Hamilton Ohio. She enabled students to also provide community service to this population by providing interpretative skills, performing health skills and interactive ongoing education for the children of the participants. Debbie has led numerous Study Abroad opportunities for students to provide service to the people of The Gambia, West Africa, Nicaragua and Belize. She successfully led the first team post COVID of Study Abroad Students to an International Destination. Debbie is an active member of the University Community and serves on the Miami University Institutional Review Board and other University and Regional Committees. Debbie has also provided service to the Nursing Profession in numerous ways, however most notably being an Item Writer for NCLEX and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, three times. Debbie provides departmental service by serving as the chair of the curriculum committee, the administrator of the ExamSoft and Simple Syllabus initiatives in the department of nursing. She actively assists students in success with testing skills across the curriculum.

Scholarship

Debbie’s research interest include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning of test taking skills and success of nursing students. This also includes classroom learning strategies to improve the student’s ability to perform clinical judgment. Promotion of student understanding of diverse health care systems, challenges and delivery of health care to underserved populations with the assistance of International Service Learning in countries of Nicaragua and Belize. This follows here at home in recognizing and serving underserved populations with the provision of Community Layperson Health Education.

Publications

Beyer, D. (2008). Classroom Application Strategy: Combining Concept Mapping and Case Studies. In Bythe, H. & Sweet, C. (Eds.) It Works for Me as a Scholar-Teacher. (pp. 101-103). Oklahoma: New Forums.

Beyer, D. Effectiveness of Human Patient Simulator as a Classroom Teaching Strategy. Accepted (1/10/2011) in Press. Clinical Simulation in Nursing in 2010.

Beyer, D. Enhancing Critical Reflection of Simulation through Wikis. Accepted (12/15/2010) in Press. Clinical Simulation in Nursing in 2010.

Beyer, D. (2011). Educational Innovations Reverse Case Study: To think like a nurse. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(1). 48-50.

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Beyer, D. (2010). Wiki in Simulation: What It Keeps In. The 2010 Skills Lab Conference presented by the Tri-State Nursing Skills Lab Consortium. Creating Your Simulation Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Simulation. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Beyer, D. (2010). Wiki: A Follow Up to Debriefing. Human Patient Simulator Network Conference-HPSP10” Medical Education Technologies, INC 14th Annual HPSN, Tampa, Florida.

Beyer, D. & Bishop-Clark, C. (2009). Focused Collaboration and the Products of an FLC Engaged in SoTL. 29th International Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, Ohio.

Beyer, D. Bishop-Clark, C. & Uhler, B. (2009) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Learning Community. The Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment (CELTUA) Seminar Series. Miami University. Oxford, Ohio.

Beyer, D. & Bishop-Clark, C. (2009) A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Faculty Learning Community-Our Regional Campus Experience. 15th Annual Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) Conference 2009. Middletown, Ohio.

Beyer, D. (2009). Case Study Alive-Simulation as a Classroom Teaching Strategy. Human Patient Simulator Network Conference-HPSN09” Medical Education Technologies, INC 13th Annual HPSN, Tampa, Florida.

Peer Reviewed Poster Presentations

Beyer, D. & Bishop-Clark, C. (2009). A SoTL Learning Community: It Works! Solid Foundations, Emerging Knowledge, Shared Futures Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Bloomington, Indiana.

Beyer, D. (2008). Combining Concept Mapping and Case Studies: A Classroom Application Strategy. Ohio Organization of Associate Degree Nursing and Ohio Council of Associate Degree Nursing Education Administrators 24th Annual Conference. Columbus, Ohio.

Beyer, D. (2008). Effectiveness of the Human Patient Simulator in the Classroom. 28th International Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, Ohio.

Beyer, D., Gerard L., & Partusch, S. (2003). Developing a Test Committee. Ohio Organization of Associate Degree Nursing and Ohio Council of Associate Degree Nursing Education Administrators 24th Annual Conference. Columbus, Ohio.

Professional Organizations

• Sigma Theta Tau International-Omicron Chi Chapter
• Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science Alumni Association
• International Nursing Association for Clinical Nursing Simulation and Learning