Shelby Garner

Biography

Research

Dr. Garner’s primary research interest involves building nurse and health system capacity globally through the adaptation, design and testing of innovative technologies such as simulation and mobile health applications to transform health education and improve patient care. 

External Funding

• $40,000.  Laerdal Foundation. Effectiveness of a Culturally Responsive Nursing Program to Save Lives at Birth in India
• $525,693. US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to build a Living and Learning Centre with Smart Classrooms. 2018-2023.
• $900,000:  US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to build a Women’s and Children’s Healthcare and Research Centre in Bengaluru, India.
• $99,677:  US India Education Foundation (USIEF) 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Grant to develop a mobile health application on diabetes for use in rural villages and urban slums in India. 2018-2020.
• $652,800: US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to construct the Simulation Education and Research Center for Nursing Excellence in Bengaluru, India. 2015-2019.
• USIEF Fulbright-Nehru Research Academic and Professional Research FlexGrant: Evaluating the Impact of Simulation use in Nursing Curricula in Bengaluru, India. 2016-2018.
• $2000: Texas Organization for Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education (TOBGNE). Excellence in Research Grant. Perceived Strategies to Increase Retention Rates among Nurses in India. 2014.
• $2,000,000  US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Climate Action Partnership for Education Grant. Collaborative Opportunities for Climate Resilience, Empowerment, and Transformation through Education (CO-CREATE).

Journal Publications

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Books

• Koch, H., Green, G., Mahid, Z., Garner, S. L.,  Hitchcock, J., George, C., and Young, P. (2019, in press). “mHealth collaboration for social good: Lessons on adaptability, "in Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and Empowerment, Roger W. McHaney, Iris Reychav, Joseph Azuri, Mark E. McHaney, Rami Moshonov, (eds.). Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019.
• HESI comprehensive review for the NCLEX RN examination (2013, 2016). (4^th & 5^th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Publishing.
• One of four authors for this textbook that aims to prepare students for the NCLEX-RN exam. Major contributions to this text included authorship of over 100 NCLEX style test questions.

Awards

• 2022 Inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
• 2022 Hayden Vanguard Lectureship awarded by INACSL (International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning) and CAE Healthcare as Keynote Speaker:  An Innovative International Collaboration to Build a Program of Nursing Simulation Education and Research in India. 
• 2022 Elizabeth Vardaman Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research.  Baylor University.
• 2018 Excellence in Educational Research Award, awarded by the Sigma Theta Tau International/Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for Excellence in Nursing Education. Award winner announced July 19^th, 2018 at the 29^th International Research Congress Sigma Theta Tau International, Melbourne, Australia.
• Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses 2017 Award.