Mary Fey has been working in the field of clinical simulation since 2007 and has been responsible for developing clinical simulation programs, integrating simulation into nursing curricula, and designing simulation labs. Her past work focused on faculty development for simulation educators as the Senior Director of Teaching and Learning, Simulation Educator Training Program and Principal Faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, MA.
Dr. Fey is a co-author of the Standard of Best Practice for Simulation: Standard VI, The Debriefing Process and Standard IX, Simulation Design. She has completed both qualitative and quantitative studies on debriefing and provides faculty development to interprofessional groups of simulation educators. In her work with the National League for Nursing (NLN) in Washington, DC, she co-authored the NLN Vision Statements: Teaching with Simulation and Debriefing Across the Curriculum. She is co-editor of the NLN Monograph Critical Conversations, a guide for nurse educators.
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.
Teaching, coaching, or debriefing With Good Judgment: a roadmap for implementing “With Good Judgment” across the SimZones. Advances in Simulation. 2022 Nov 26; 7(1):39. PMID: 36435851; PMCID: PMC9701361.
The Transformative Teaching Framework: A roadmap for 21st century teaching, Journal of Professional Nursing, Volume 55,2024, Pages 90-96,ISSN 8755-7223,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2024.09.010. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755722324001595)
Simulation for Competency Development in Clinical Practice. Nurs Clin North Am. 2024 Sep;59(3):489-498. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2024.01.010. Epub 2024 Feb 24. PMID: 39059866.
Healthcare Simulation in Nursing Practice, An Issue of Nursing Clinics, E-Book. (2024). United States: Elsevier.
Setting Observers Up for Success in Simulation. Nurse Educator 48(6):p 321-325, November/December 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001433
The digital brain: challenges for nurse educators. J Prof Nurs, 2023, 48, 8755-7223.
They didn’t do anything wrong! What will I talk about?. International Journal of Healthcare Simulation, 1-6, 2023.
Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice in Professional Development, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Volume 58, 2021, Pages 5-8, ISSN 1876-1399, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.08.007.
“Circle Up”: Workflow Adaptation and Psychological Support via Briefing, Debriefing, and Peer Support. NEJM Catalyst, 2020.
Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Moving From Monologue to Dialogue. N.p., Wolters Kluwer Health, 2020.
Fostering Civility in Learning Conversations: Introducing the PAAIL Communication Strategy. Nurse Educator 45(3):p 139-143, 5/6 2020. | DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000731
Implementing Faculty Development Programs: Moving From Theory to Practice. Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 15(1):p 5-6, February 2020. | DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000429
The Changing Landscape of Simulation-Based Education. AJN, American Journal of Nursing 119(8):p 42-48, August 2019. | DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000577436.23986.81
The Simulation Research Rubric: A Pilot Study Evaluating Published Simulation Studies, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Volume 22, 2018, Pages 1-4, ISSN 1876-1399, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2018.06.003.
Critical conversations: The NLN guide for teaching thinking. Wolters Kluwer, 2018.
State of Research on Simulation in Nursing Education Programs. J Prof Nurs. 2017 Nov-Dec;33(6):397-398. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2017.10.009. PMID: 29157565.
Structured Debriefing in Simulation-Based Education. AACN Adv Crit Care (2016) 27 (1): 78–85. https://doi.org/10.4037/aacnacc2016328
Assessing the Quality of Simulation-Based Research Articles: A Rating Rubric. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Volume 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 496-504, ISSN 1876-1399, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2015.10.005.
Debriefing Practices in Nursing Education Programs: Results from a National Study. Nursing Education Perspectives 36(6):p 361-366, November/December 2015. | DOI: 10.5480/14-1520
Standards of Best Practice: Simulation Standard IX: Simulation Design. Standards of Best Practice, Volume 11, Issue 6p309-315,June 2015