Grace Ng, PhD, CNM, RN is the Senior Director of our Faculty Development Program. She was formerly the Nursing and Health Professions Director at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences (NYSIM), a large simulation center affiliated with both NYU Langone Health and The City University of New York. She developed a passion for simulation since 2008, when she started using simulation for obstetrics interprofessional team training. Since then, Grace has expanded her work to using simulation to transform culture in healthcare through experiential learning, debriefing, and reflective practice. Her current teaching focus is faculty development for simulation educators. She has taught extensively in simulation instructor courses in the US and overseas, and served as faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, Massachusetts since 2011. As a dedicated leader in formal training in simulation, Grace developed one of the first longitudinal nursing simulation fellowships in 2014. Grace has authored multiple articles on teamwork and simulation. Her most recent research interests are focused on examining the role psychological safety in nursing clinical practice, as well as debriefing approaches of novice debriefers. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Healthcare Simulation, and Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research.
Grace has been a nurse since 1998. Prior to devoting her work full time to simulation, she served as a professional development nurse educator at NYU Langone Health. She obtained her Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery degrees from Columbia University, her Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate in Nursing Education from Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at The City University of New York. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Nursing from the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.
Contact: [email protected]
Course Faculty:
Gateway Debriefing Skills Workshop
Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing
Media:
Publications:
Readiness planning: how to go beyond “buy-in” to achieve curricular success and front-line performance. Advances in Simulation, 2025. 9. 10.1186/s41077-024-00317-z.
Viewing Readiness-for-Residency through Binoculars: Mapping Competency-Based Assessments to the AAMC’s 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2022. 35. 1-6. 10.1080/10401334.2022.2082432.
A Pilot Study to Explore Novice Debriefers’ Post- Simulation Debriefing Experiences. Simulation & Gaming, 2020. 52. 10.1177/1046878120970998.
Attaining Interprofessional Competencies by Connecting Oral Health to Overall Health. Journal of Dental Education, 2020. 85. 10.1002/jdd.12490.
Capturing Entrustment: Using an End-of-Training Simulated Workplace to Assess the Entrustment of Near-graduating Medical Students from Multiple Perspectives. Medical Science Educator, 2018. 28. 10.1007/s40670-018-0628-0.
A Culture of Safety From Day 1: An Institutional Patient Safety Initiative to Support Incoming Interns. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2018. 10. 347-349. 10.4300/JGME-D-17-00828.1.
A simulated “Night-onCall” to assess and address the readiness-for-internship of transitioning medical students. Advances in Simulation, 2017. 2. 10.1186/s41077-017-0046-1.
Improving the Clinical Skills Performance of Graduating Medical Students Using “WISE OnCall,” a Multimedia Educational Module. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, 2017. 12. 1. 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000254.
“The Safety Dance”: A Faculty Development Workshop Partnering IPE and Patient Safety Initiatives Using Simulation-Based Education. MedEdPORTAL, 2016. 12. 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10440.
Towards entrusting medical students: recognising safety behaviours. Medical Education, 2016. 50. 569-570. 10.1111/medu.13028.
Nursing Simulation Fellowships: An Innovative Approach for Developing Simulation Leaders. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 2016. 12. 62-68. 10.1016/j.ecns.2015.11.005.
Team Training for Success: An Interprofessional Curriculum for the Resuscitation of Emergency and Critical Patients. MedEdPORTAL Publications, 2014. 10. 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9807.
Why Your TeamSTEPPS Program May Not Be Working. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 2013. 9. e287-e292. 10.1016/j.ecns.2012.03.007.
Championing Faculty Development. Nursing Economics, 2013. 31. 42.
Interdisciplinary Team Training: Five Lessons Learned. The American journal of nursing, 2012. 112. 47-52. 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000415127.84605.1f.