Beth Ann Swan, PhD, RN, CHSE, FAAN, ANEF

Dr. Swan earned her BSN from Holy Family University and MSN and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Campbell Collaboration supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before joining La Salle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Dr. Swan was the Associate Dean for Education, the Charles P. and Peggy Evans Endowed Distinguished Professor in Simulation and Innovation at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Co-Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Interprofessional Education and Clinical Practice Office at Emory University. Dr. Swan is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an Academy of Nursing Education Fellow, past president of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, and a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. She is nationally and internationally known for her research in health care and nursing. She was an early leader in exploring the impact of changing health care delivery models on outcomes of care. Throughout her career, Dr. Swan has been an advocate for engaging consumers in their health care, promoting quality care coordination and safe care transitions, and creating innovative evidence-based practices to improve care.

As the principal investigator on extramural funded grants, Dr. Swan has provided leadership and mentorship on ground-breaking projects impacting both nursing and interprofessional education and practice. With her entrepreneurial mindset and belief in consumer-centered care and engagement, her latest research is focused on leveraging technology and big data to optimize cross setting communications to improve care coordination and transitions of care. She is also working in the simulation space building an interprofessional collaborative education model that leverages virtual reality in support of achieving interprofessional and social determinants of health competencies during transitions of care and exploring the feasibility, usability, and acceptability of incorporating artificial intelligence into simulation education. Most recently, Dr. Swan led the Atlanta Region Community Health Workforce Advancement (ARCHWAy) Program, a HRSA funded project to expand the public health workforce by training new and existing community health workers.

Dr. Swan was a member of the Veterans Health Administration Choice Act Blue Ribbon Panel and was a member of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Planning Committee for Preparing Registered Nurses for New Roles in Primary Care. Her numerous publications cover a wide range of topics focused on primary and ambulatory care, innovations for education and practice, and health care policy. Dr. Swan developed the major contribution to care coordination and transition management, the national curriculum known as CCTM. She is the co-editor of Care Coordination and Transition Management Core Curriculum, co-edited the book Perspectives in Ambulatory Care Nursing, and co-edited the book Integrating a Social Determinants of Health Framework into Nursing Education. Dr. Swan is the author of the November 2012 Health Affairs’ Narrative Matters Feature, A Nurse Learns Firsthand That You May Fend For Yourself After A Hospital Stay.

Areas of Expertise

Ambulatory/Primary Care

Care Coordination and Care Transitions

Simulation-based Learning

Evidence-Based Practice

Honors/Awards

• 2025 – Inaugural Hall of Fame Award, American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
• 2024 – Best Article 2023, Innovation Center, Nursing Education Perspectives, National League for Nursing
• 2023 – Fellow, Academy of Nursing Education, National League for Nursing
• 2023 – International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Research Fellowship

Selected Publications

Magerl, K. & Swan, B.A. (in production). Evaluating pediatric mental health outcomes in emergency departments: A review of the literature. Pediatric Nursing.

Boufakhreddine, S. & Swan, B.A. (accepted for publication). Examining HPV vaccination uptake among marginalized communities: A review of the literature. Journal of Ambulatory Care Nursing.

Giordano, N., Bouvier, M., Davis, M., Gowgiel, J., Averill, H., Hillman, J., Giordano, K., Rider, N., Cunningham, T., Swan, B.A., Feistritzer, N., & Pappas, S. (2025). Approaches implemented by nurse managers linked to high performing clinical care teams. Journal of Nursing Administration, 55(9), 529-534.

Giordano, N., Duva, I., Swan, B.A., Johnson, T., Cimiotti, J., Lamas, D., Hillman, J., Gowgiel, J., Giordano, K., Rider, N., Muirhead, L., Wallace, M., Cunningham, T., Shelton, M., Harrison, T., & Mascaro, J. (2025). Effects of a workplace well-being program on professional quality of life among healthcare personnel. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Available online ahead of print.

Crawford, K., Febres-Cordero, S., Brasher, S., Kaligotla, L., Phan, Q., Steiger, L., Chicas, R., Spaulding, A., & Swan, B.A. (2025). Evaluating the impact of a community health worker training program. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition, 44(256), 1-9. doi.org/10.1186/s41043-025-01011-0

Swan, B.A., Febres-Cordero, S., Steiger, L., Lisenby, A., Getz, T., Hudson, J., Cole, K., Branch, R., McDermott, C., Fugate, K., & Giordano, N. (2025). Feasibility and acceptability of incorporating artificial intelligence into simulation education. Clinical Simulation in Nursing. Available online ahead of print.

Swan, B.A., Giordano, N., Febres-Cordero, S., Fugate, K., & Steiger, L. (2025). Integrating artificial intelligence technology into simulation for pre- and post-licensure nursing students. Nursing Education Perspective. Available online ahead of print.

Swan, B.A., Phan, Q., Crawford, K., Febres-Cordero, S., Kaligotla, L., Chicas, R., Giordano, N., Brasher, S., Chance-Revels. R., Spaulding, A., & Steiger, L. (2024). ARCHWAy: An innovative educational program advancing the public health workforce. Archives of Public Health, 82(184), 1-15.

Swan, B.A., Jones, K., Hayes, R., Kaligotla, L., McDermott, C., Rodriguez, J., & McCauley, L. (2024). Reject           the “Practice readiness” myth: Ask if systems are ready for nursing graduates instead. Nursing Outlook, 72(5), 1-6.

Giordano, N., Phan, Q., Kimble, L. … Swan, B.A. (2024). A framework to grow, bolster, and diversify the nursing and public health workforce. Journal of Professional Nursing, 53, 25-34.

Books

Hamilton, J., Swan, B.A., & McCauley, L. (Eds.). (2023). Integrating a social determinants of health framework into nursing education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Coburn, C., Gilland, D., & Swan, B.A. (Eds.). (2022). Perspectives in ambulatory care nursing. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

Haas, S., Swan, B.A., & Haynes, T. (Eds.). (2019, 2^nd Edition). Care coordination and transition management core curriculum. Pitman, NJ: Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc.

Book Chapters

Kaligotla, L., Guest, J., Pedraza, G., Vilorio, P., Rodriguez, I., Swan, B.A., Chicas, R. (2024). Fostering strategic partnerships to advance access to healthcare among Georgia’s Latino community. In J. Hamilton & C. Moore (Eds.) Transforming Social Determinants to Promote Global Health. Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature.

Swan, B.A. & Kaligotla, L. (2023). SDOH in action: Exemplars of incorporating SDOH content in entry-level and advanced-level nursing education. In J. Hamilton, B.A. Swan, & L. McCauley (Eds.) Integrating a social determinants of health framework into nursing education. Cham, Switzerland Springer Nature.

Hamilton, J., Char, A., McCauley, L., Abiri, A., Kimble, L., Kaligotla, L., Swan, B.A. & Martyn, K. (2023). Lessons learned. In J. Hamilton, B.A. Swan, & L. McCauley (Eds.) Integrating a social determinants of health framework into nursing education. Cham, Switzerland Springer Nature.

Swan, B.A.  (2022).  Care coordination.  In D. Boyle & M. Baernholdt (Eds.).  Nurses’ contributions to quality health outcomes. New York, NY: Springer Nature.