Pamela Ironside, PhD, FAAN, ANEF
- Associate Professor, Department of Environments for Health
- Director, Center for Research in Nursing Education
Education
- PhD
External Funding
Biosketch
Pamela M. Ironside, PhD, RN, FAAN is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Nursing Education Research at Indiana University. Her research program includes using interpretive phenomenology to explicate the ways new pedagogies influence the practices of thinking in nursing classrooms and clinical courses and the ways in which nursing faculty undertake reform and innovation. She has received funding from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to study how multiple patient simulation experiences influence students’ clinical judgment and safety competencies and, in collaboration with the Community College of Philadelphia, from the John A. Hartford Foundation to study ways to foster associate degree nursing students’ knowledge, skills and abilities to care for older adults. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is an Academy of Nursing Education Fellow. She is the recipient of the Advancing the Science of Nursing’ award for the Curriculum and Instruction section of the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She was co-editor of the prestigious book series, Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and Human Sciences and was the editor for Volume IV of this series: Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship. She is on the editorial board of Journal of Nursing Education and Nursing Education Perspectives. Her work is widely published in journals such as Journal of Qualitative Health Research, Journal of Nursing Education, Journal of Advanced Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives and Advances in Nursing Science. She has presented numerous workshops on pedagogical development and using new pedagogies in classroom and clinical settings both nationally and internationally.
Selected Publications
Ironside, P. M. (2006). Reforming nursing education using Narrative Pedagogy: Learning and practicing interpretive thinking. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 55, 478-486.
Scheckel, M. M., & Ironside, P. M. (2006). Enacting Narrative Pedagogy: Cultivating interpretive thinking. Nursing Outlook, 54, 159-165.
Ironside, P. M. (Ed.). (2007). On revolutions and revolutionaries: 25 years of reform and innovation in nursing education. New York: National League for Nursing.
Ironside, P. M. (2007). Rethinking the meaning and significance of impact factors [Guest Editoria]. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 33(6), 3-4.
Smythe, E., Ironside, P. M., Sims, S. L., Swenson, M. M., Spence, D. G. (in press). Heideggerian hermeneutic research: As lived. International Journal of Nursing Studies.
