Rate My Professor Laura Ingalsbe

Dr. Laura Ingalsbe, DNP, RN, serves as Assistant Professor of Nursing and BSN Program Director at the Susan S. Morrison School of Nursing within the Morrison Family College of Health at the University of St. Thomas. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from St. Catherine University. Joining the faculty in July 2023, she teaches BSN and MSN courses, including complex nursing care simulations. Her professional background includes serving as a Healthcare Simulation Educator at Allina Health starting in March 2023, and earlier clinical nursing roles, such as contributing to the Caring Connection community outreach program for hospital-based nurses in 2011 as an RN, BSN.

Dr. Ingalsbe's academic interests focus on nursing education, particularly the use of simulation to enhance clinical judgment and patient safety outcomes for new-to-practice and acute care nurses. She has co-authored peer-reviewed articles on these topics. Key publications include 'Developing Clinical Judgment During Transition to Practice With Rapid-Cycle Deliberate Practice Simulation' (2024, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, co-authored with Rachael McGraw, Elizabeth Kozub, and Katrice Ziefle), which examines rapid-cycle deliberate practice simulation for transitioning nurses. Another is 'Does Simulation Training for Acute Care Nurses Improve Patient Safety Outcomes? A Systematic Review to Inform Evidence-Based Practice' (2019, co-authored with Rachael McGraw, Elizabeth Kozub, and Katrice Ziefle). Additional contributions encompass an integrative literature review on cognitive science to reconsider failure to rescue in nursing and explorations of graduate nurses' lived experiences transitioning to practice during the pandemic. In 2024, she hosted the Midwest Nursing Research Society conference. Her work supports evidence-based practices to prepare nurses for high-quality patient care.