Renee Dunnington, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor of Nursing

Contact

Nursing
Battelle
326

614-236-6638
rdunning@capital.edu

• Biography

  Dr. Renee Dunnington has a distinguished career as a nursing educator, administrator, scholar, & clinician.  Her clinical specialization is in women's health & obstetric nursing.  Her work in perinatal health spans the care continuum. She is also an expert in simulation in nursing education. She was awarded the William Loadman Award from The Ohio State University for her research on simulation. She has published a conceptual model on immersive presence in simulation. Her grant funding has enabled the expansion of the simulation labs and program at Capital's School of Nursing. Dr. Dunnington is also a specialist in nursing informatics and is passionate about the impact of technology and the human-machine interaction in healthcare. Dr. Dunnington has authored a philosophy on the nature of reality represented in human patient simulation. She has published and presented her work at the international, national, state, and local levels.

• Degrees Earned

  PhD The Ohio State University

  MSN Kent State University

  BSN Capital University

• Teaches

  NURS 530 Healthcare Informatics & Technology

  NURS 720 Clinical & Laboratory Teaching

• Publications

  Dunnington, R.M, & Farmer.  Caring behaviors among student nurses interacting in scenario-based high fidelity human patient simulation.  International Journal of Human Caring. 19(4). 44-49.

  Dunnington, R.M. The centricity of presence in scenario-based high fidelity human patient simulation:  A Model.  Nursing Science Quarterly, 28(1), 1-11.

  Dunnington, R.M. Presence with scenario-based high fidelity human patient simulation. Nursing Science Quarterly, 27(2), 157-164.

  Dunnington, R.M. The nature of reality represented in human patient simulation:  Implications for nursing education.  Nursing Philosophy. 15(1), 14-22.