Ruth Tarantine

Dr. Ruth Tarantine holds the position of University Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Studies for Colorado Technical University. Prior to joining CTU, she served as the Director of Healthcare at Academic Partnerships where she was responsible for leading the design of new nursing programs for public universities with a focus on quality, scalability and compliance.

Tarantine is a 25-year industry leader in nursing education, research and professional leadership. She is a published authority on scaling complex nursing practica through innovation and recognized by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) for maintaining critical care certification for more than 20 years. She has served as the chair of graduate nursing programs for South University where she oversaw several online programs including nurse practitioner, nursing education, administration, informatics, post graduate certificate and doctorate of nursing practice programs. In addition to being a 20-year veteran nurse from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, her research efforts focused on the use of high fidelity simulation in healthcare provider education. She has presented her research on multidisciplinary crisis team training both nationally and internationally, and has also conducted research on reducing 30-day hospital readmission rates in response to recent Center of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement changes.