Education

• PhD Barry University
• DNP University of North Florida
• MSN University of North Florida
• Certificate of Simulation – Boise State University
• Teaching on Line - University Illinois State

Office Phone

Office Hours

• Monday and Wednesday Katy 12-1
• Tuesday Sugarland 12-1
• Thursday 6-7 Zoom

Clinical Interest

• Disasters
• burns
• Operating Room Nursing
• Emergency Nursing and Nurse Residency Programs

Research Interest

• Veteran Care
• Medical Simulation
• Telehealth

Professional Expertise

• OR
• ER
• Medical Missions
• Trauma

Professional Accolades

• AORN Outstanding Achievement for Perioperative Education, (Clinical/Academic) 2018. Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, UBT Pristina, Kosovo December 2017.
• Florida Council Operating Room Nurse, Perioperative Nurse of the Year 2013-2014.
• Order of Military Medical Merit Medallion awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in performance of outstanding service and achievements. U.S. Army Medical Department, U.S. Army Regiment. Fort Sam Houston, TX. 2013.
• Military Bonze Star awarded for meritorious service in OIF 2008 – 2010.

Publications/Scholarly Work

• Halley, M., Connelly, L., & Gagain, K. (2022). “It Made Me Think Like a Nurse:” Virtual Simulation with Interpreters. Journal of Nursing Education. 
• Cummings, C., & Connelly, L. (2017). Reflections of nursing students involved in a simulated “very bad day”. Teaching and Learning in Nursing , 13, 51-54. 
• Comeaux, J., Connelly, L. & Cohen, D. (2016) A sample toolkit for teaching vascular access to undergraduate nursing students. (Abstract). The Journal of the Association for Vascular Access, 21,264https://doi.org/10.1016/j.java/2016.10.073.
• Cummings, C., & Connelly, L. (2016). Can nursing students’ confidence levels increase with repeated simulation activities? Nurse Education Today , 36, 419-421. 

Book Chapter

• Roush, C., Jobli, E., Connelly, L., Cummings, C., Comeaux, J. & Kruger, B. J. (2019). Nursing student engagement in a program-wide community-based learning curriculum. In C. Winterbottom, J.S. Nicholson, & F.D. Richard (Eds.), Community-based transformational learning: An interdisciplinary inquiry into student experiences and challenges. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. Pending publication.

Workbook

• Connelly, L. (2018). Preliminary Edition Rehab & Chronic Concepts Practice Workbook. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Podium Presentations

• Connelly, L. (2023). Rules and Regulations for Nursing. Presentation to AORN of Tampa Bay. Moffit Hospital, Tampa, Florida.
• Connelly, L. (2022). Clear the Air. Sigma Theta Tau Lambda Rho Research Conference, Jacksonville Florida.
• Connelly, L., & Halley, M. (2022). The Trio for Education: Student-Faculty-Interpreter Collaboration. Sigma Theta Tau Lambda Rho Research Conference, Jacksonville Florida.
• Connelly, L., & Marshall, L. (2022). 2022, Washington, DC. PechaKucha Presentation: The Nursing Student Clinical Experience During Covid-19. Sigma’s Creating Healthy Work Environments.
• Connelly, L., & Perez, D. (2021). COVID Care at UNF: Creating Health Care in Remote Student Location. American College Health Association (ACHA) 2021 Annual Virtual Meeting. Virtual.
• Connelly, L., & Richter, M. (2021). Increasing Access to Healthcare in College Student Population via Telehealth: An Evidence-Based Approach. Florida Nurse Practitioner Network Rapid Fire Presentation, Orlando, Florida.
• Connelly, L., & Marshall, L. (2021). The Experience of Nursing Clinical During COVID-19. AORN Global Conference & EXPO 2021. Virtual.
• Connelly, L., & Welch-Rawls, D. (2021). Transforming Global Nursing Research and Scholarship through Co-Creation, Awareness, Balance, and Purpose. Virtual presentation. Interprofessional Education with Case Competition and Simulation. Sigma’s 32 ^nd International Nursing Research Congress. Virtual.
• Connelly, L., (2020) OR Nurses Giving STUDENT NURSES a View through their lens.  Virtual AORN Surgical Conference and EXPO 2020.
• Connelly, L., (2019). Love has no limit, a medical mission to Kenya. 5 ^th Annual Nursing Research & Evidence Based Practice Conference. Orlando, Florida.
• Connelly, L. (2019). Stop the Bleed. Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) meeting. St Vincent’s South, Jacksonville Florida.
• Connelly, L. (2018) Authentic Simulation for Collaboratively Preparing Student Nurses and American Sign Language Interpreting Students. Global Surgical Conference and EXPO. New Orleans, LA. (April)
• Connelly, L. (2018) Interdisciplinary Simulation for Nursing Students and American Sign Language Students. Sigma Theta Tau International and National League of Nursing Education Research Conference, Bethesda, Maryland.

Poster presentations

• Bosman, A., Sorenson, A, & Connelly, L. (2019). The Cochlear Implant is Not the End All to be All. National Student Nurses Association Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Guillerno, I., Ciampa, S., Hassan, R., Iloduba, L., & Connelly, L. (2019). Compassion Fatigue vs. Science of Caring. National Student Nurses Association Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Connelly, L. (2018) Flippin to a Simulation AORN Global Surgical Conference & EXPO. New Orleans, LA.
• Connelly, L. & Lahey, J. (2018) Authentic Simulation for Collaboratively Preparing Student Nurses and American Sign Language Interpreting Students. AORN Global Surgical Conference & EXPO. New Orleans, LA.
• Cummings, C. & Connelly, L. (2016). Nursing Graduate Perceptions of Clinical Simulation Experiences. INACSL Conference, Grapevine, Texas, July 2016.
• Connelly, L., (2015) Teaching Delegation, Prioritization, & Time Management Using a Timeline. INASCL Conference, Orlando, Florida July 2015.
• Connelly, L., & Avelar, R. (2015). Building Future Perioperative Nurses. National Student Nurses Association Convention, Phoenix AZ.