Charlotte E. Thompson

C. Elise Thompson RN, PhD has a BSN from UNC Charlotte, and a master’s and PhD in Nursing from University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has a background in Emergency Nursing, and she is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator. C. Elise Thompson is the Communications Manager for the North Carolina Nurses Association Simulation Council and an active member of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. She is an experienced nurse educator with experience teaching Prelicensure and RN-BSN undergraduate students, and Nurse Educator graduate students. C. Elise Thompson is currently the RN-BSN program coordinator and an associate professor teaching in the RN-BSN program. Her research is focused on technology, simulation, and nursing education.

Education

BS in Nursing, University of North Carolina Charlotte
MS in Nursing, University of Hawaii at Manoa
PhD in Nursing, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Specialization in Teaching

C. Elise Thompson is an experienced nurse educator with experience teaching Prelicensure and RN-BSN undergraduate students, and Nurse Educator graduate students since 2007. She is currently the RN-BSN program coordinator and an associate professor teaching in the RN-BSN program. She is experienced in teaching face to face, hybrid, and online students in a variety of courses focused on Adult Health, Health Assessment, and Nursing Education. She is also a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator with experience teaching students in simulation using the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice. Thompson is dedicated to providing nursing students quality education using applied learning methods and technology to develop competent nurses prepared for clinical practice.

Research Interests

C. Elise Thompson's research interests are focused on technology, simulation, and nursing education. Her PhD dissertation compared three simulation educational interventions for medication administration comparing state anxiety for first year undergraduate nursing students. She presented this research at local and regional conferences and published in Nursing Education Perspectives. Thompson has worked on various research teams for nursing education research. Thompson and team completed a funded grant study on virtual simulation to compare satisfaction and critical thinking in an online RN-BSN pathophysiology-pharmacology course and presented at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) conference and Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) research congress and published in Clinical Simulation in Nursing. Thompson completed an online escape room with a nurse educator student that resulted in a publication in the Journal of Nursing Education. She completed two funded educational intervention studies with nursing students incorporating escape rooms for patient safety and medication administration. The patient safety escape room was presented at INACSL 2023, and the medication administration escape room compared knowledge, self-efficacy, and critical thinking for first year nursing students and was presented at the North Carolina Nurses Association 2021 and INACSL 2022. Thompson and team continued research with Escape Rooms and measured medication administration and clinical judgment of first year nursing students using a summative medication administration simulation presented at the Southeastern Nurse Educator Symposium and INACSL 2024. Thompson and team are continuing research of medication administration, clinical judgment, and summative simulation with immersive virtual reality.

Professional Service

C. Elise Thompson is active in the nursing profession through various nursing and simulation organizations. Thompson is the Communications Manager for the North Carolina Nurses Association Simulation Council where she promotes educational events. The North Carolina Nurses Association Simulation Council exists to advance simulation-based education to improve patient outcomes by fostering safe, culturally sensitive, competent patient care across diverse populations. The Council’s primary goal is to promote networking that supports the standards of best practice in simulation to develop sound clinical judgment for nursing practice. She is also an active member of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning with a vision of simulation and innovation transforming lives and a mission to be the global leader in the art and science of healthcare simulation through excellence in nursing education, practice, and research. She is a member of the Society for Simulation and Healthcare with a purpose to enhance the quality of healthcare through simulation. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International with the mission to develop nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere.

Community Engagement

Thompson is engaged in the community through various nursing professional organizations and through Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church.

Honors & Awards

CHHS Summer Scholars Program UNCW 2024
NextUp Faculty Leadership Fellow UNCW 2022
Faculty International Travel Grant 2022
Poster Chosen for Professor Rounds INACSL 2021
INACSL Research Fellowship 2020
Education Winner for Poster Presentation INACSL 2019
Faculty International Travel Grant 2019
Faculty International Travel Grant 2018
Office of International Programs Exploratory Funding 2017
Nomination for the 2011 PIN Nurse Educator of the Year