Karyn Lee Boyar

Faculty

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Karyn Lee Boyar

DNP CNE

Clinical Associate Professor

1 212 992 9361

433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States

Karyn Boyar is an assistant clinical professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the director for the Master in Clinical Nursing Research Program as well as a CNE, Certified Nurse Educator. As an educator and family nurse practitioner specializing in neurology and long-term care, she teaches both didactic and clinical courses and simulation. She has over 20 years of experience in healthcare and over ten years of experience in the clinical care and management of patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dystonia. Her background includes work on many research trials including original research on diet in the management of Parkinson’s disease. Boyar has created comprehensive outreach initiatives for people with Parkinson’s disease that include community symposia, support groups, and educational lectures and materials. She also created and taught unique movement classes with live music for people with Parkinson’s disease. 

Before joining the faculty at NYU, Boyar was the clinical specialty coordinator at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the designated outreach coordinator for the National Parkinson Center of Excellence at the Robert and John M. Benheim Center for Movement Disorders.

Boyar earned her DNP from Pace University and MS and BS in nursing science from Pace University. Currently, she serves on the board of directors of the IARCN (International Association of Clinical Research Nurses) as a member-at-large. 

Her current scholarship focus' on bringing Design Thinking Models to life for undergraduate students in the large classroom.  She has presented her work on Design Thinking on the local, national and international levels and has written several book chapters disseminating this innovation in teaching.

DNP - Pace University (2014)
Family Nurse Practitioner /MS, Nursing - Pace University (2002)
BS, Nursing - Pace University (2001)

Primary care
Home care
Neurology

American Nurses Association
Eastern Nursing Research Society
National League of Nursing
Sigma Theta Tau
IACRN - International Association of Clinical Research Nurses
NPA - Nurse Practitioner Association of New York State
SONSIEL - Society of Nurse Scientist, Innovators, Entreprenurs & Leadership

Hillman Scholar

Integrating Design Thinking Competencies Into a Community Health Nursing Course : Creative Problem-Solving Around the Healthy People National 2030 Goals

Keating, S. A., Ea, E., Jo Vetter, M., & Boyar, K. L. (2025). 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001414
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Design thinking (DT) has evolved as a human-centered framework for solving problems in a number of industries including health care and education. Users of DT move through a multistep dynamic process involving five stages: empathy, problem identification, ideation, prototyping, and testing. This article highlights one program’s efforts to operationalize DT into the undergraduate nursing curriculum as a project-based learning strategy in a senior class. This educational innovation works to develop advanced critical thinking and problem-solving competencies for approximately 450 nursing students each academic year and has been taking place since 2019.

Nadel, H., Boyar, K., Whalen, K, (Publication Spring 24)  Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement,2nd Ed. In Mary Jo Vetter and Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky. Elsevierchapter 23: Co authored Innovation and New Models of Evidence-based Care”

Boyar, K. L., Nadel, H., & Whalen, K. (2024). In M. J. V. and K. Evanovich (Ed.), Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement,2nd edition. Elsevier.
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“I Don’t Know What to Say:” Novel simulations to develop student nurse practitioner communication competencies
SIGMA International Nursing Research Congress,  
25-28 July 2024

Boyar, K. L. (2024). (p. poster).
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Preparing Global Innovators and Health Equity Leaders in Nursing and Healthcare
                                    ICN Congress, Montreal, CA
                                    International Council of Nurses, July 1-4th

Boyar, K. L. (2023).
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Using Design Thinking to Thread the Social Determinants of Health in an Undergraduate Curriculum

Ea, E., Vetter, M. J., & Boyar, K. L. (2023). (Vols. 48, Issues 2, pp. 114-115). 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001293
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The Future of Nursing Report 2020-20301 calls for nursing education to integrate the social determinants of health (SDoH) in the curriculum to prepare future nurses to take an active role in identifying and addressing health inequities. Nurse faculty and schools of nursing face multiple challenges that pose as barriers to meet this demand. These challenges include a crowded curriculum, lack of a coherent curricular framework, and a dearth of evidence-based teaching strategies to ensure that concepts on SDoH, health equity, and social justice are seamlessly integrated in the nursing curriculum.

  Using Design Thinking to Thread the Social Determinants of Health in Undergraduate Curriculum Webinar
                                    AACN (Virtual Presentation)
                                    American Association of Colleges of Nursing: Academy March 2023

Boyar, K. L., Ea, E., Keathing, S., & Vetter, M. J. (2023).
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Using Design Thinking to Thread the Social Determinants of Health in an Undergraduate Curriculum

Ea, E., Vetter, M. J., Boyar, K. L., & Keating, S. (2022). 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001293
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Bringing Research to Life for Undergraduate Nursing Students Using a Design Thinking Model

Seltzer Uribe, J., Boyar, K. L., & Ramos, S. R. (2020). In K. Rodriguez, K. Boyar, & E. Ea (Eds.), Innovative use of concept care planning in a large class. Innovative strategies in teaching nursing : Exemplars of optimal learning outcomes. Springer.
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Innovative use of concept care planning in a large class

Rodriguez, K. G., Boyar, K. L., & Ea, E. (2020). In E. Ea & C. Alfes (Eds.), Innovative strategies in teaching nursing: Exemplars of optimal learning outcomes. Springer.
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Making QSEN visible in the classroom: Innovative use of in-class care mapping activity

Rodriguez, K. G., Boyar, K. L., Weidel, J. J., & Ea, E. (2016).
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