Southeastern nursing professor awarded fellowship by nursing honor society
Thursday, September 22, 2016 
by: Rene Abadie
HAMMOND – AtNena Luster-Tucker, a faculty member at the Southeastern Louisiana University
School of Nursing, has been awarded a one-year fellowship to study quality in online
nursing education.
Luster-Tucker is one of only seven nursing scholars in the nation to receive
the fellowship to participate in the Emerging Educator Administrator Institute offered
by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society.
She has completed the program’s three-day workshop in Indiana and will spend
the rest of the year at Southeastern working to complete the leadership project, which
is focused on online learning in nursing education.
Currently the interim director of Southeastern’s Center for Faculty Excellence,
Luster-Tucker is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing.
“The integration of online learning in nursing education has been one of the
largest movements ever seen in nursing education. The nursing profession is a unique
combination of theory and hands-on skills, both of which can be taught successfully
via distance education,” she explained.
She said her project involves evaluation of Southeastern’s online nursing courses,
which are offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels, through an evidence-based
assessment tool.
“The College of Nursing and Health Sciences has worked diligently for many years
to create courses that we believe are innovative and engaging,” she added. “I am excited
to see the evaluation outcomes at the end of the project.”
She intends to complete the training as a master course reviewer, which will
allow her to train other faculty to help review the online nursing courses at Southeastern.
Luster-Tucker said the experience will also assist her in the role of supervising
the university’s Center for Faculty Excellence, which works with faculty to support
and enhance teaching and learning at Southeastern.
“The identified best practices are not limited to nursing,” she said, “and can
be utilized university-wide in our faculty development activities.”
