College of Southern Maryland nursing professor Lisa Gonzalez has been awarded the 2025 Nurse Educator Doctoral Grant for Practice and Dissertation Research by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
She also recently co-authored a research project printed in the peer-reviewed Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. The article, “Promoting Safe Practice in New Graduate Nurses: The Key Role of Support,” reported on research that examined how registered nurses in practice develop clinical judgment in New Graduate Nurses and how they responded.
“Preparing our new graduates for practice can be challenging thus the academic-practice gap,” Gonzalez said in a release. “We wanted to better understand the experience of new graduate nurses developing clinical judgment as they transition into practice.”…