Maureen Baker, PhD, CNL, CHSE
Associate Professor
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Nursing
CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
School of Nursing
CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
Dr. Baker is passionate about nursing education and inspiring the next generation of nurses to elevate the art and science of nursing. As an Apple Distinguished Educator, she leads the UNC SON EmpowerEd program, using iPads to leverage nursing education, student engagement, and student scholarly productivity. Dr. Bakers areas of research are patient engagement and innovation in nursing education.
May 2026 Excellence in Teaching Award- UNC School of Nursing
May 2025 Faculty Excellence Award- UNC School of Nursing
October 2024 Rear Admiral Betsy Niedmeyer First Place Award for Evidence Based Practice
December 2023 Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
2023 Shirley A. Smoyak Article of the Year Award
June 2023 UNC School of Nursing Educational Support Award
May 2020 UNC Medical Center Faculty of the Year Award
May 2019 Faculty Excellence Award- UNC School of Nursing
Books and Chapters
Black, B., & Baker, M. J. (2026). Professional nursing: Concepts & challenges (11th ed.). Elsevier.
**Baker, M.J. (2019). Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization into Practice. In Black, B.P. (Ed.), Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (87-104). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Health Sciences.
**Baker, M.J. (2019). Nurses, Patients, and Families Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and Culture. In Black, B.P. (Ed.), Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (255-278). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Health Sciences.
** Book of the Year Award American Journal of Nursing 2019, 2020
Refereed Papers/Articles
Baker, M.J. (2026). Teaching patients to engage: The impact of an experiential undergraduate course on patient activation and healthcare navigation skills. The Patient Experience Journal [Case Study] [In press].
Baker, M.J., Randall, P. & Smith, C. (2026). Using hyFlex learning, AI, and competency-based education to strengthen critical appraisal of evidence. Nurse Educator [Teaching Tip] [In Press].
Biddix, J. M., Kramer, T. R., Baker, M. J., & Kitzmiller, R. R. (2026). Tackling inadvertent perioperative hypothermia: Implementing a prewarming protocol at a remote military treatment facility. Journal of Peri Anesthesia Nursing, 41, 875-8992.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2025.12.008
Mack, S., & Baker, M. J. (2026). What I wish I knew: The reality of heart transplant recipients. Clinical Transplantation, 40(2), e70485. https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.70485
Baker, M.J and Raphael-Grimm, T. (2025). Yoodli: AI-enabled feedback to enhance communication confidence in undergraduate nursing students. Teaching Repository of AI-Infused Learning. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/traiil/1
Baker M.J. & Smith C. (2025). Let them choose: Empowering students through a HyFlex learning model. Nurse Educator doi:10.1097/NNE.0000000000001859.
Brennan, K., Chen, T., & Baker, M. (2024) Feasibility and acceptability of Sarhachat™: An AI-powered chatbot for sexual and reproductive health education and decision support. Available at SSRN 5028418https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5028418
Baker, M.J and Raphael-Grimm, T. (2024). Communication and collaboration: Having students ‘Walk the walk’ using a virtual escape room. Nurse Educator 10-1097. doi.org/10.1097/nne.0000000000001656
Baker, M. J., Ota, E., Kato, M., & Kamkhoad, D. (2023). The first annual COIL international Shark Tank. Journal of Nursing Education, 62(5), 318-319. doi:10.3928/01484834-20230306-10
Lanning, R., Crawford, C. & Baker, M. (2023). Integrating an AI speech coach application into an assignment assessing therapeutic communication. Nurse Educator, 48 (6), 309-309. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001527.
Ford, S. H., Bruckner, L., Thoyre, S., Baker, M. J., Bartlett, T. R., & Hodges, E. A. (2023). Gut-brain axis perspective on negative symptoms and their neighbors in early adolescence: Can we move care upstream? Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1-10.
*Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 2023 Shirley A. Smoyak Article of the Year Award
Baker, M.J. (2023). Fostering student innovation in nursing research
Journal of Nursing Education, 62(6):374–375. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20230306-09
Active Learning Strategies, while near and far, now possible in an app-based world. Epub Apple Books. (2020) Available at: https://books.apple.com/us/book/active-learning-near-and-far/id1520884249
Baker, M.J. (2020). Becoming a professional nurse: Defining nursing and socialization into practice. In Black, B.P. (Ed.), Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (87-104). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Health Sciences.*
Baker, M.J. (2020). Nurses, patients, and families caring at the intersection of health, illness, and culture. In Black, B.P. (Ed.), Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (255-278). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Health Sciences.*
Baker, M.J., Black, Beth P., & Beeber, L.S. (2020). Patient engagement in action: Timing and intensity of strategies used to engage low income depressed mothers of infants and toddlers. Patient Experience Journal. 7(3), 136-145.
Baker, M. J. & Zomorodi, M. (2018). Welcome to the Clinical Nurse Leader Shark Tank. Journal of Nursing Education, 57(10), 631-632.
Baker, M.J., Black, B.P., & Beeber, L. S. (2018). Rules of engagement: Strategies to enlist and retain an underserved population in a mental health intervention. Patient Experience Journal, 5(3), 108-115. Available at: https://pxjournal.org/journal/vol5/iss3/14
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TITLE
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TOTAL
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AGENCY
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DATES
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Funding Recipient
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Freshman Seminar Enhancement Fund
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$1250
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UNC College of Arts and Sciences
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2026-2027
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Funding Recipient
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Provost’s AI Acceleration Program’s Faculty Fellowship program
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$5000 stipend, $10,000 Azure Credits
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Provost’s AI Acceleration Program’s Faculty Fellowship program
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2026-2027
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Funding recipient
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Explore strategies for successful integration of GenAI into curriculum
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$500
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Lenovo Grants Communities of Practice
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2024-2025
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Funding Recipient
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UNC Adobe Small Grants: Communicating Research with Digital Media
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$1000
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Center for Faculty Excellence/Adobe
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2024-2025
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PI
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Sloppy Mountain Virtual Escape Room
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$500
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CFE/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grants Program
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2021-2022
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PI
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Competency-based nursing education: Optimizing Panopto for video-based skill development and clinical judgment.
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$1000
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CFE/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grants Program
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2023-2024
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PI
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Enter the Shark Tank/Dragon’s Den to Solve Health Care Complex Problems.
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$2500
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Development Awards for Collaborative Online International Learning
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2021
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PI
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Enter the Shark Tank/Dragon’s Den to Solve Health Care Complex Problems.
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$2500
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Development Awards for Collaborative Online International Learning
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2022
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PI
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Enter the Shark Tank/Dragon’s Den to Solve Health Care Complex Problems.
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$1500
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COIL Champion awards
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2023
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PI
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Enter the Shark Tank/Dragon’s Den to Solve Health Care Complex Problems.
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$1500
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COIL Champion awards
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2026
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Faculty Advisor
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Invest in Nursing Faculty Fellow Advisor
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5% workload
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Invest In Nursing and Piedmont Health
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2021-2022
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- Apple Distinguished Educator
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Clinical reasoning and judgment
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Digital innovations in nursing education
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Patient engagement