Krista A. White, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNE is an Associate Professor of Nursing and teaches in the MS in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), PhD program, and directs the Tanzania Healthcare Experiential Learning Initiative. Her career as a nurse educator began over 25 years ago. Dr. White has extensive experience teaching in the didactic, clinical, simulation, and online environment and has taught at the diploma, associate's, RN to BSN, master's, and doctoral levels of education. Clinically, her expertise lies in the area of critical care, especially geared toward the post open heart surgery population. Dr. White is honored and humbled to be the recipient of the Endowed Stoudt Excellence in Teaching Award at her previous institution (being nominated by her students) and the Georgetown Women in Medicine Mentorship Award (being nominated by her faculty colleagues).
Dr. White’s research interests lie in clinical decision-making in nursing. More specifically, her doctoral dissertation research was designed to develop and validate a quantitative research instrument that measures students’ and nurses’ perceptions of their levels of self-confidence and anxiety as they progress through the clinical decision-making process. The Nursing Anxiety and Self-Confidence with Clinical Decision Making (NASC-CDM(c)) scale has been used in nearly 250 studies in the United States and worldwide and has been translated and validated in Turkish and Korean. Dr. White’s program of research continues in the area of clinical decision-making as well as in the area of mentorship, nursuing education science, pedagogical strategies, self-directedness in learners, and compassionate teaching.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa