Darla Gruben, EdD (c), MSN, RN, CHSE, CNE, serves as founding faculty, assistant professor, and Prelicensure BSN Track Coordinator for the inaugural College of Nursing (CON) at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth (HSC). She has been faculty and a course director for ten years in BSN prelicensure and RN to BSN programs.  She is a certified healthcare simulation educator (CHSE) and a certified nurse educator (CNE). She is a dissertation candidate at the University of Alabama to complete an EdD in Instructional Leadership in Nursing Education.  She has spent the last four years working on Competency-Based Education and faculty development. She received the 2022-2023 award for the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students (AFS) College-level Teaching Award for the College of Nursing and the 2020 Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses for the College of Nursing. Gruben serves as AACN Essentials Champion and is a member of the CON Curriculum Committee, HSC Faculty Senate, HSC Simulation Advisory Committee, and the HSC University Education Curriculum Committee. She will co-lead the HSC High Impact Practices Community of Practice (HIPCOP) group. She collaborated with The Division of Academic Innovation at HSC to develop this Microcredential: iTEACH (innovation in Training nurse Educators in Assessment, Competency evaluation, and High-quality simulation) with Reagan Laborde, M.S, as the lead instructional designer and co-leader of HIPCOP.