Chris Zamaripa

Assistant Professor

Department

• Nursing

Contact Information

• 614-236-7225
• czamaripa@dominatedgirls.net
• Battelle Hall

Biography

Dr. Christine Zamaripa is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Capital University. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching in higher education. During this time, she has had the opportunity to mentor learners in the classroom, in clinical settings and the laboratory. Her clinical background is in Women’s Health where she continues to practice clinically as a contingent bedside nurse in Labor & Deliver.

Dr. Zamaripa’s scholarly interests focus around evidence-based educational practices as well as the sense of belonging in nursing. She collaborated to develop technology used nationally by nurse educators in a variety of settings to increase interactive learning. She is actively engaged in research exploring nursing education from both the educator and learner’s perspective with her focus being around the growth and assessment of clinical judgment.

As a sense of belonging is so closely tied to teaching-learning outcomes Dr. Zamaripa has begun work on this topic as well. She is currently the primary investigator for a team of nursing faculty currently exploring the impact of a variety of interventions on prelicensure nursing student’s development of sense of belonging to the school, the university and the profession. 

She enjoys mentoring graduate student educational research. She is also a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, The National League of Nursing, The Ohio League of Nursing, The American Nurses Association-Ohio, Kappa Delta Pi International Honors Society in Education and The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, as well as actively serving in the community