Liza is a nursing educator who oversees our GN to ICU transition program. The program currently is 6 months in length and includes multiple tiers of training. Threaded throughout training classes, the orientee spends precepted clinical time on the unit to tie into patient care concepts learned. Courses include general nursing orientation, EKG interpretation, ICU Core training classes, and individualized simulation sessions focusing on the nursing management of critically ill patients.
Prior to this role, Liza served as the educator for the SICU and vascular/thoracic/general surgery floor for 5 years. Liza has 15 years of nursing experience including both MICU and SICU, medicine and Long-term care. She received her MSN in Nursing Education in 2001 from the University of Hartford, and her nursing education experience includes 2 years adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut undergraduate nursing program.
Liza has been a faculty member of the
Center for Education, Simulation & Innovation at Hartford Hospital since 2005, and has been a simulation instructor with Hartford Hospital’s ICU Core program since 2004. Liza has presented regionally on the use of simulation as a teaching/learning tool. She also presented a
poster at the Society for Critical Care Medicine’s Annual Congress (2007) on the use of
simulation for multidisciplinary training of implementing sepsis guidelines and teamwork training.