Eloise Cathcart

Eloise Cathcart is the director of the Nursing Administration Program and a clinical associate professor at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her scholarly work focuses on the description of experientially acquired knowledge, skill, and ethics embedded in nurse manager practice. She frequently provides consultation to healthcare organizations in the use of Patricia Benner’s methodology of practice articulation to develop clinical and administrative nursing practice. She is the author of several publications and frequently speaks about leadership and knowledge development in clinical and executive nursing practice.

Prior to joining NYU Meyers, Cathcart served as the executive director of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and interim chief operating officer at the National League for Nursing. She was the clinical specialist for Primary Nursing and Cardiovascular Nursing at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, after which she developed and taught the Graduate Program in Cardiovascular Nursing at Boston University. She was also the director of Intensive Care and Emergency Programs at Children’s Hospital in Boston and vice president for Nursing at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. 

Cathcart earned her MSN from Catholic University of America and BSN from Boston College.