Shelia Swift
Executive Assoc Dean, Academic Affairs, Clinical Associate Professor
Biography
Shelia H. Swift is a clinical associate professor and the executive associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing. Swift has over 30 years of experience as a registered nurse in various clinical, leadership, and academic positions. She has been involved in nursing education for the past 14 years, coordinating and teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs and serving as the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at UT prior to her current position. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Tennessee Technological University (1992) and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Tennessee (2013). Swift’s research interests focus on the registered nurse’s work environment, nursing errors, and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes. She is a 2017 AACN Leadership for Academic Nursing Programs Fellow and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She has received the Faculty Excellence Award (2017), the Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award (2015), and the Sigma Theta Tau Outstanding Dissertation Award, Gamma Chi Chapter (2014).