Yeager, Caitlin

Caitlin R. Yeager, Ph.D., RNC-NIC, serves as an assistant professor and director of the Nursing Resources and Simulation Center at Ursuline College’s Breen School of Nursing. As a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE), she coordinates all activities at Ursuline’s Health Professions Resource Center and collaborates with faculty to design and implement simulation for laboratory learning activities.

Yeager is a certified neonatal intensive care unit nurse at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and volunteers as a nurse educator with Giving Health to Kids (GHTK). In this role, she designs, implements and evaluates nursing education for a one-year neonatal nurse training program at Georgetown Public Hospital in Georgetown, Guyana, and Mount St. John’s Medical Center in St. John, Antigua.

Yeager serves as a board member of the National Coalition for IV Push Safety, as well as a National Certification Corporation (NCC) volunteer item writer for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Certification. The former president of the Greater Cleveland Nurses Association, she also is the co-advisor for the Student Nurses of Ursuline College (SNUC).

In 2020, Yeager received the March of Dimes Ohio Nurse of the Year Award winner for Academic Education (0-5 years), and in 2023, participated in the cohort of the National League for Nursing’s Leadership Institute for Simulation Educators.