Elizabeth “Hope” Hinchman, MSN, RN
Lecturer
Biography
Hope Hinchman is a lecturer at the UNLV School of Nursing, where she has taught since 2019. Her work spans classroom, laboratory, simulation, and clinical education, with an emphasis on student success, clinical judgment, and preparation for professional nursing practice. She contributes to curriculum development, competency-based education, simulation-based learning, and NCLEX readiness initiatives while mentoring students and faculty across prelicensure nursing programs.
Expertise
Hope has extensive clinical experience in pediatric nursing, including pediatric medical-surgical and oncology care, with additional experience across pediatric emergency, intensive care, cardiovascular intensive care, and neonatal intensive care settings. Her academic expertise includes prelicensure nursing education, fundamentals of nursing, clinical and simulation education, competency-based education, clinical judgment development, student remediation, HESI and NCLEX readiness, curriculum development, and assessment of student learning outcomes.
Classes Taught
Hope has taught across UNLV’s traditional BSN, accelerated BSN, and direct entry MSN programs. Her teaching experience includes fundamentals of nursing, fundamentals of nursing lab, physical assessment skills, pediatric nursing, pediatric clinical, and clinical synthesis. Much of her teaching has focused on level I prelicensure students, where she integrates didactic, laboratory, simulation, and clinical learning to support the development of foundational nursing knowledge, skills, and clinical judgment.
Education Background
Hope is a three-time UNLV alumna. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2008, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2015, and a Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in nursing education in 2019. Her continued professional development focuses on nursing education, simulation, competency-based education, clinical judgment, assessment and evaluation, and evidence-based approaches to improving student success and readiness for nursing practice.
Awards, Recognitions, and Group Affiliations
Hope’s selected honors include the Nevada Nurses Foundation 50 Under 50 Award, the 2025 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching, multiple UNLV School of Nursing outstanding teaching awards, the Spring 2021 Bright Light Award, and the Tony and Renee Marlon Nursing Fellowship. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International and the National League for Nursing, serves as faculty advisor for the Student Nurses Association, and mentors nursing students and early-career faculty.