Jennifer Biggs, MSN, RN, CHSE

I am the Simulation Lab Coordinator for Kent State University’s College of Nursing. I obtained my Masters in the Science of Nursing Education at Kent State University and my BSN from Ursuline College. My background is 14 years as a registered nurse in high-risk obstetrical nursing.

As faculty, I have taught informatics and leadership classes as well as numerous parent and newborn clinicals in various northeastern Ohio hospitals over the last 12 years. During my time as full-time faculty, we have increased our use of simulation to include every undergraduate nursing course and some graduate courses.

The highlights of these improvements include a disaster simulation working with our local county emergency response team, integration of theatre department student actors as standardized patients, doubling our simulation space and equipment, development of simulation scenarios, and the creation of an electronic medication scanning system.

I have presented on the topics of theatre students in simulation, interdisciplinary care of the patient at the end-of-life, and collaboration between higher learning institutions. I have also successfully co-authored 2 grants for improvements in our simulation lab.

Courses

• NURS 40089 - International Health Care