02/05/2025

Member Highlight

Jodi L. Sutherland, PhD, RN, ACRN, CNE

My name is Jodi L. Sutherland, PhD, RN, ACRN, CNE and I am an assistant professor at the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton. I am a nationally recognized nurse educator in community and population health nursing. My teaching and research focus broadly on community and population health nursing, specifically teaching and learning innovations about home healthcare for nursing students and practicing nurses. My membership to the organization has provided opportunities for networking and professional development.

Recognizing a gap and a need to prepare a nursing workforce ready to practice in home care, I was selected and received a research award from the International Home Care Nurses Organization (IHCNO) to explore the effectiveness of a home healthcare simulation. The project provided evidence to support simulation training in the home healthcare setting and evaluated the effectiveness of the home healthcare simulation. The findings represent a unique and substantial contribution to teaching and learning in the home healthcare setting and have been published in Home Healthcare Now. The scalability of the innovative nursing simulation, funded by the IHCNO, was presented at the Tsao Foundation and International Home Care Nurses Organization Conference in Singapore (April 2024).

Currently, I am working with a team on a research study focused on the implementation of an innovative simulation focused on an end-of-life care scenario in the rural home healthcare setting. When I am not working, I love to run, spend time with family/friends, and travel. I treasure my time bike riding in Cape Cod and in April 2024-seeing the North Atlantic right whales at Herring Cove Beach!