ABOUT.

The NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted podcast, brought to you by the National League for Nursing Center for Innovation in Education Excellence, offers episodes on the how-to of innovation and transformation in nursing education. Each conversation embraces the power of innovation to inspire educators and propel nursing education forward.

A Legacy of Innovation

NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted began in 2016 as the NLN TEQ blog. Later renamed the NLN Nursing EDge blog, it published peer-reviewed posts until 2023. Over eight years, contributors authored over 160 blog posts, all available on the Archived Blog page. A detailed history of the blog is available for download. The NLN Nursing EDge Unscripted podcast launched in 2021 and has released over 150 episodes so far.

Sarah L. Beebe, PhD, CNM, WHNPr, CHSE

Dr. Sarah L. Beebe is a pioneering nurse educator, simulation expert, and host of the globally ranked Scrub In Podcast. Named one of Delaware’s Most Influential People in Healthcare and a multiple-year Delaware Today Top Nurse nominee, she currently serves as Graduate Medical Education Simulation Lab Program Manager at Bayhealth Medical Center. Her research has focused on virtual simulation and advanced practice nursing, recognized with the prestigious 2023 NLN-ENRS Dissertation Award. Dr. Beebe brings dynamic expertise in technology-enhanced simulation to advance healthcare education and patient safety across multiple platforms.

Ashley Graham-Perel, EdD, RN, NPD-BC, MEDSURG-BC, CNE, FAAN

Nursing Historian, Assistant Professor, and Director of an Office of Diversity and Cultural Affairs, Dr. Ashley Graham-Perel understands the vital importance of nurturing the nursing profession and emphasizes the essential connection between academia and the communities nurses will ultimately serve. Before teaching at the Columbia University School of Nursing, she worked at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing as a clinical instructor and as a Nurse Educator in an acute care setting. Now, Dr. Graham-Perel speaks out for academia and healthcare to join forces and address the issues that impede creating the diverse workforce we need to serve an increasingly diverse world. This call to action carries over into her research, which focuses on diversity and inclusivity in nursing education — particularly admission, retention, and student success rates. Furthermore, she sheds light on the perspectives of nurses whose voices have been marginalized in conventional portrayals of nursing history. Through comprehensive oral histories of prominent living Black nursing leaders, dynamic production and presentation of Black nursing history videos, and influential consultancy with universities on integrating history into nursing curriculums, Dr. Graham-Perel endeavors to amplify underrepresented voices in the nursing profession.

Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN

Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, is a registered nurse, educator, and researcher interested in teaching and learning across the lifespan, nursing education, and health promotion. Judy published over 100 publications and speaks nationally and internationally. As a Senior Clinical Content Specialist-Nursing with Wolters Kluwer, Judy works with nursing schools and customers to explore brain science and the biology of learning, active teaching strategies, and thought leadership. Judy published the fourth edition of Creative Teaching Strategies for the Nurse Educator in 2025.

Jasline Moreno, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE-A

Jasline Moreno is the faculty lead for the Maryland Clinical Resource Consortium (MCSRC). MCSRC is a statewide funding initiative under the auspices of the Nurse Support Program II and the Maryland Higher Education Commission. The initiative provides simulation education for Maryland’s 25 pre-licensure nursing programs, and hospital educators to increase the quality and quantity of simulation used in nursing education. She serves on the International Nursing Association of Simulation and Learning’s membership committee and is an active member of the Maryland Community and College Simulation Users Network.

Steven Palazzo, PhD, MN, RN, CNE, ANEF

Dr. Steven Palazzo is a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) with over 20 years of nursing experience. He enjoys all things curricula including developing, implementing, and evaluating new programs. His journey as a first-generation college graduate led to practice in critical care, research in proteomic profiling of the lung space, biobehavioral research exploring behavioral change in adolescents related to cardiovascular health, workplace incivility, and high school students’ perceptions of nursing as a professional career choice.

Dr. Palazzo is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar (2013), Nurse Faculty Leadership Scholar (STTI), and Emerging Educational Administrator Institute graduate. Dr. Palazzo is active in STTI serving a four-year term on the governance committee and is a member of the editorial board of Nursing Education Perspectives.

Amber Young-Brice, PhD, RN, CNE

Dr. Young-Brice is an Assistant Professor in Nursing and program director of the Teaching Certificate for Nurse Educators program at Marquette University. She holds a master’s degree in nursing education and PhD in nursing and is a certified nurse educator. She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels since 2008. In addition to her full-time teaching role, from 2015-2019, Dr. Young-Brice did educational development for the university, performing individual and group consultations, discussions on best practices in higher education, and offered programs specifically for clinical and practicing faculty. She continues this role within her college of nursing working as a new faculty mentor and conducting programming for onboarding all new faculty.  Dr. Young-Brice’s program of pedagogical research explores the relationship between the influence of non-cognitive factors and the successful trajectory of students. Additionally, she studies ways to foster these factors through theoretically derived and evidence-informed pedagogical innovations. Her research is grounded in her expertise as an educator and underpinned by theories from nursing, education, and cognitive and social sciences. She is the 2018 NLN Ruth Donnelly Corcoran Research Award recipient.