Sara Hall DNP, RN, AGACNP-BC, CHSE

Special Instructor
Human Health Building, Room 2014
(248) 364-8849
sarahall2@oakland.edu

Biography:

Dr. Sara Hall is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and board-certified Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Her clinical practice focuses on community-based hospice and hospital medicine, supported by extensive prior experience in critical care settings. Dr. Hall teaches across undergraduate and graduate nursing programs, with a particular focus on advanced practice nursing education. She is also involved in the development and evaluation of clinical learning experiences designed to support students’ progression from foundational knowledge to practice readiness. Her scholarship and quality improvement work center on standardized patient methodology and simulation-based education, with an emphasis on strengthening clinical and diagnostic reasoning, advancing health equity, and preparing learners for compassionate, evidence-based nursing practice.

Education:

• DNP - University of Michigan
• BSN - Michigan State University
• BS - Michigan State University

Clinical Expertise:

Community-based hospice care, hospital medicine, critical care, cardiothoracic surgery, and solid organ transplantation

Research Area Interests:

• Compassionate Clinical Reasoning
• Simulation Based Education
• Competency Based Education

Research/Publications:

• Hall, S. (2026). Reimagining advanced pathophysiology: Integrating standardized patients into a pre-clinical nurse practitioner course. Nurse Educator. Accepted for publication.

Presentations (poster-refereed):

• Hall, S. (2026, June). Enhancing Clinical Reasoning Through a Low-Fidelity Standardized Patient Encounter in Advanced Pathophysiology NP Students. International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Annual Conference
• Hall, S. (2026, April). Using Standardized Patients to Strengthen Advanced Pathophysiology Understanding in NP Students. National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) 52nd Annual Conference.
• Hall, S. (2023). Education for Registered Nurses to Reduce Implicit Bias and Stigma When Caring for Chronic Back Pain Patients. A Cut Above—Stitching Evidence Into Practice: University of Michigan Critical Care Conference.
• Hall, S. (2023). Implicit Bias and Stigma When Caring for Chronic Pain Patients. Physicians for Human Rights Annual Conference.

Presentations (oral-invited):

• Hall, S. (2024, November). Travel Nursing Experiences and the Impact on Access to Quality Healthcare. Sigma Theta Tau International Rho Chapter.

Grants (Funded):

• Hall, S. (PI). (2026). From Compassion to Clinical Judgment: Improving Diagnostic Reasoning in Nurse Practitioner Education. Sigma Theta Tau International, Theta Psi at-Large Chapter Research Award. $500 funded

Professional Affiliations:

• International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning
• Society for Simulation in Healthcare
• National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• National Association of Hispanic Nurses