Certified Academic Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE®cl) Review Manual

Ruth A. Wittmann-Price, PHD, RN, CNS, CNE, CHSE, CNEcl, ANEF, FAAN, is the Dean of the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing and Health Professions at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, New Jersey. Ruth received her BSN degree from Felician College in Lodi, New Jersey; her master’s from Columbia University, New York City; and completed her PhD in nursing at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania. Dr. Wittmann-Price’s PhD received the Dean’s Award for Excellence. Ruth developed a mid-range nursing theory entitled “Emancipated Decision-Making (EDM) in Women’s Health Care” and has tested her theory in four studies.

Linda Wilson, PhD, RN, CPAN, CAPA, NPD-BC, CNE, CNEcl, CHSE, CHSE-A, FASPAN, ANEF, FAAN, FSSH
Assistant Dean for Special Projects, Simulation, and Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) Accreditation
Clinical Professor
Drexel University
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Karen K. Gittings, DNP, RN, CNE, CNEcl, Alumnus CCRN, is a Professor of Nursing and Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina. Dr. Gittings received her diploma in nursing from The Washington Hospital School of Nursing, Washington, Pennsylvania and her BSN from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus. She earned her MSN with a specialization in nursing education and her DNP at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a 2015 to 2016 Amy V. Cockcroft Fellow, achieved certification in online instruction in 2011, became a certified nurse educator (CNE) in 2013, and earned certification as an academic clinical nurse educator (CNEcl) with the inaugural group of test-takers. Dr. Gittings has extensive experience in critical care nursing and has been a certified critical-care RN (CCRN) since 1991.