Caitlin E. Carter

Caitlin E. Carter joins St. John’s University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor/Industry Professional in the Department of Nursing in the College of Pharmacy and Health and Sciences. As a Master’s Prepared Nurse, she has worked in various settings as both a bedside clinician and nurse educator, including but not limited to adult and pediatric med-surg and intensive care units, in the span of a decade. She has worked as both adjunct faculty with nursing students earning their BSN/MSN, as well as a clinical nurse educator with new graduate nurses and experienced nurses. 

Throughout her nursing education career, Professor Carter has worked heavily with simulation, as well as combining didactic classes with fundamental skills. While working as a clinical nurse educator, she expanded her role to include becoming an American Heart Association instructor for Pediatric Advanced Life Support, as well as Basic Life Support to enhance the knowledge and practice of nurses’ emergency response in the clinical setting.

After earning her master’s in nursing education from Sacred Heart University in early 2023, Prof. Carter decided to continue her passion for education in the nursing field and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Nursing at Seton Hall University to foster her research and interest in simulation education in nursing and lifelong learning. It is her goal to bring the highest level of education to the future nurses of our profession.

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric nursing, school health, school nursing

More than 10 years of adult medical-surgical and pediatric in-patient clinical experience at NewYork- Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Two years as adjunct faculty with graduate-level BSN/MSN nursing students in areas of fundamentals, health assessment, and simulation at Columbia University School of Nursing  

Two years as a clinical nurse educator with new graduate nurses and experienced nurses. Her focus was on new initiatives, competencies, updates in practices and protocols, etc.