Building and Sustaining a Statewide
Clinical Simulation Alliance

Dr. KT Waxman is an international nurse leader. She is an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco and is the Director of the Executive Leadership Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. She is also the Director of the California Simulation Alliance (CSA). In addition to her work at USF and the CSA, she is the Editor-in -Chief for Nursing Administration Quarterly . She is a Past President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare . Dr. Waxman's work has been published extensively and can be found in the Journal for Simulation in Healthcare, Clinical Simulation for Nursing, JONA, Journal of Nursing Education, NAQ, Nurse Leader and Creative Nursing journals. She has authored 3 books on Finance and Budgeting and is currently working on the third edition of “Financial and Business Skills for the DNP”, published by Springer. She co-authored a simulation book, “Healthcare Simulation Program Builder”, is co-editor of “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Nursing” to be published in late 2021, and has authored several chapters in simulation and leadership textbooks.

Dr. Waxman received her DNP from the University of San Francisco, with an emphasis on health systems leadership and a concentration in clinical simulation. She holds certifications as Clinical Nurse Leader, Executive Nursing Practice, and Simulation Healthcare Educator, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and SSH.