Tara Spalla King

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Tara Spalla King
First Name
Tara
Last Name
King
Credentials
PhD, RN
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Doctor of Nursing Education Program

Dr. Tara Spalla King has 20 years of experience in acute care nursing practice and 13 years of experience as a nurse educator, the past seven in an administrative capacity. Most recently she was the Academic Dean at a private Catholic nursing college where she assembled a team to build online programming and mentored nurse educators in online pedagogy. Dr. King is an experienced onsite evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and is a team leader. She is a peer reviewer of online courses for Quality Matters, secretary of the Epsilon Chapter of STTI, and is also a member of the MNRS Communications & Engagement Committee. She is responsible for assessment and evaluation activity for select training grants in the college.

The focus of Dr. King’s prior research activity utilized web-conferencing technology to connect disparate and geographically separated/transcontinental groups of college students to discover the impact on cultural competence.  For this work she received the Loadman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Dissertation, OSU Higher Education and Student Affairs, 2013. Dr. King is currently active in global initiatives, particularly serving in a consultant role for virtual global classrooms and mentoring faculty in global education projects.

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News

October 25, 2024

Pre- and post-doctoral candidates to be considered

The Ohio State University College of Nursing is considering applications for pre- and post-doctoral candidates for its “Training in the Science of Health Development” (TSHD) program, which is expected to be refunded for 2025.

October 23, 2024

Four-year project to enhance access to parenting programs for families

The National Institutes of Health/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH/NICHD) awarded a four-year, $2.35 million grant through the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program to Klein Buendel, Inc. and a research team from The Ohio State University College of Nursing to identify effective methods for delivering parent training programs .

Calendar

November 14, 6:00 p.m.
Golden Buckeye Center for Dementia Caregiving
760 Kinnear Road
Columbus
OH
43212
November 18, 12:00 p.m.