Amber Renaud

Biography

Dr. Amber Renaud has over 18 years of experience as a registered nurse with a background in medical-surgical and rehabilitation patient care. She has taught clinical courses since 2014 and has since progressed to teaching didactic online and face-to-face courses, labs through skills and simulation and hybrid courses for undergraduate nursing students. She has worked as a clinical educator, clinical instructor and adjunct faculty for nursing students in both traditional and accelerated programs. Dr. Renaud also worked as the Director of Center for Caring with Technology (CCT) at Notre Dame of Maryland University. She is skilled in providing direct clinical nursing care to patients in an acute care hospital setting. She is certified in rehabilitation nursing, environmental health and adolescent forensic nurse examination.

Selected Publications

• Renaud, A. (2016). Quality improvement and CAUTI project: A nursing approach. In L. Atanelov (Ed.). Resident's handbook of medical quality and safety (pp. 127-130). Springer.

Selected Presentations

• Walker, M. & Renaud, A. (2023, October 12-13). Beyond the classroom: Hybrid simulation to improve comprehension of perioperative fluid balance [Spotlight presentation]. Maryland Nurse Association (MNA) 120th Annual Convention, Ocean City, MD, United States.
• Renaud, A., Alexander, T., Atticks, A., Preis, J., Walker, M., & Henson, A. (2020, March 26-28). Utilizing IPE to enhance collaboration between nursing and speech-language pathology students in patients with tracheostomies [Poster accepted for presentation]. Sigma and NLN Nursing Education Research Conference, Washington, DC, United States. (Conference canceled).
• Preis, J., Atticks, A., Alexander, T., Renaud, A., & Walker, M. (2019, November 21-23). Utilizing IPE to enhance collaboration between nursing and speech-language pathology students for improved patient care [Poster presentation]. ASHA Convention, Orlando, FL, United States.
• Renaud, A. (2019, January 26-30). Preventing workplace violence through de-escalation and caring  [Poster presentation]. International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2019, San Antonio, TX, United States.
• Renaud, A. (2018, June 13-15). Using simulated case studies in an entry-level nursing foundations course to assimilate curriculum concepts [Poster presentation]. INACSL International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.