Dr. Beth Cusatis Phillips is the Strategic Nursing Advisor with ATI and Ascend Learning. Prior to joining ATI, Beth spent 16 years at Duke School of Nursing as Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Educational Excellence. Beth taught in the ABSN and MSN programs. Beth spent 9 years at Vance Granville Community College where she taught in and directed the ADN/LPN programs. Beth’s clinical practice included 13 years at UNC Hospitals and 6 years at East Carolina University Health, first in med-surg and then Surgical/Trauma ICU. Beth received her ADN from Waukesha County Technical Institute; her BSN from East Carolina University; her MSN from Duke; and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Beth is the chair of the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing; is a site visitor for the NLN CNEA; and has served as the chair of the CNEA Standards Committee. Beth’s educational/research/presentation interests include faculty orientation, development, and longevity, curriculum development, professional identity in nursing, student decision making, student support and development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
We need federal, state, and institutional leaders to invest in nurses earlier in the pipeline by increasing enrollment and program capacity and providing better resources like technology in the classroom so we can tackle the workforce shortage before it gets any worse.