Rate My Professor Heidi Meyer

Dr. Meyer’s research specializations include emotional intelligence, clinical reasoning, and innovative teaching strategies in nursing education; her doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical reasoning in senior nursing students, and she holds certification in the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test. Key publications are “Understanding emotional intelligence and its relationship to clinical reasoning in senior nursing students: A mixed methods study” (Journal of Professional Nursing, 2023); “Enhancing clinical reasoning through simulation debriefing: A multisite study” with S.G. Forneris et al. (Nursing Education Perspectives, 2015); “Out of the SimLab and into the classroom: Using a Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) high-fidelity simulation scenario as an interactive classroom teaching strategy” (in Innovations in Nursing Education: Building the Future of Nursing, 2014); and contributions to multisite studies on simulation debriefing published in 2016. She has delivered numerous presentations at national conferences including the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conferences (2017, 2019), Midwest Nursing Research Society (2020), and International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (2013, 2014). Dr. Meyer has received competitive grants such as the Bremer Trust Fund grant for simulation equipment and serves in leadership roles including Faculty Senate representative, internal facilitator for the Nursing National Advisory Board, Public Health Minor Advisory Board member, and leadership in the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing. She teaches courses across the nursing curriculum such as Public Health Nursing, Transitions to Professional Practice, Capstone Clinical, Research and Ethics, and Health Across Borders.