Faculty and Staff Profile

Janice Garrison Lanham

Educational Background

Nursing Clemson University, Clemson, SC
MS 1994

Advanced Practice Nursing University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Certificate of Graduate Study 1997

Nursing Clemson University, Clemson, SC
BS 1988

Courses Taught

NURS 1020 — Introduction to Nursing (Guest Lecturer)
NURS 1400 — Fostering Innovation in Nursing
NURS 3110 — Health Promotion Across the Lifespan
NURS 3230 — Gerontological Nursing
NURS 4140 — Community Health

*Summer Scholars — Summer Nursing Academic Program (SNAP) / Advanced SNAP 2.0

Profile

Janice is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Nursing at Clemson University, College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, where she has taught for nearly two decades. A registered nurse with over 35 years of clinical and educational experience, she holds board certification as an Academic Clinical Nurse Educator (CNEcl) through the National League for Nursing and as a Nurse Coach (NC-BC) through the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation. Her professional mission is grounded in a single conviction: preparing future healthcare professionals for an AI-ready nursing workforce. Lanham is nationally recognized for her pioneering work integrating artificial intelligence and digital pedagogy into nursing education. She was one of nine Clemson faculty selected to serve on the university's AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum team — a distinction that positions her as both a practitioner and a scholarly voice on AI integration in nursing education, a perspective that remains critically underrepresented in national conversations about higher education and emerging technologies. In May 2026, she served as a panelist at The Clemson AI Conversation at the 10th Annual University Research Symposium, and has been quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the impact of cybersecurity threats on faculty teaching in non-technical fields. Lanham serves as CBSHS College AI Champions Lead and as a TEACH AI Faculty Leader through Clemson's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation. Her teaching spans a broad portfolio, including NURS 1400: Fostering Innovation in Nursing, where students engage design thinking principles, collaborative technology, and the Nursing Innovation Project — a three-milestone signature assessment scaffolded across the semester. NURS 1400 is both a designated Critical Thinking and Global Challenges course, welcoming non-nursing majors alongside nursing students in interdisciplinary collaboration. Lanham also teaches NURS 3110: Health Promotion Across the Lifespan and NURS 3230: Gerontological Nursing and serves as a guest lecturer in NURS 1020: Introduction to Nursing. Her teaching philosophy centers on trust, transparency, and accountability as the foundation for responsible AI integration — and on the whole-person care of each student she encounters. In 2019, Lanham created the Summer Nursing Academic Program (SNAP), a career exploration initiative for high school students (grades 9–12) that has engaged over 500 students in hands-on clinical skills training, including vital signs, medication administration, sterile procedures, wound care, and American Heart Association BLS/AED/First Aid and Stop The Bleed certifications. Advanced SNAP 2.0, added as a deeper-dive experience for returning students, reflects the program's growing demand, with all 100 seats (80 SNAP + 20 SNAP 2.0) confirmed full for Summer 2026. Lanham's scholarship reflects her interdisciplinary reach. As Co-Principal Investigator, she has contributed to an externally funded research portfolio totaling over $4.1 million, addressing health equity, rural health, and public health preparedness. She was recently appointed by the American Holistic Nurses' Association Board of Directors to serve on the AHNA Editorial Task Force for Beginnings, AHNA's quarterly member magazine. She is also a peer reviewer for Computers, Informatics, Nursing and was recently invited to present at the AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education (2026). She maintains two Substack publications — Wired to Care, focused on AI and nursing education thought leadership, and Code Calm, focused on nurse burnout, resilience, and wellness — as platforms for professional and public engagement. Her service extends well beyond the classroom. Lanham serves as Immediate Past Chair of the Clemson Academic Technology Council (ATC) Executive Committee. Lanham currently serves as a Board Member of the One Eleuthera Foundation, a nonprofit organization advancing sustainable community development in Eleuthera, Bahamas — a role that formalizes over 15 years of international partnership through Clemson's service-learning program, including clinical rotations in Bahamian primary health clinics and formal agreements with the Bahamas Ministry of Health. She holds an active AHA BLS Instructor certification and provides certification training to nursing students and colleagues.

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence integration in nursing education
Nurse wellness, burnout prevention, and holistic nursing practice
Health equity and health disparities
Digital pedagogy and technology-enhanced learning

Honors and Awards

DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators, South Carolina Nurses' Association (2024)
Dixon Senior Fellow, Clemson University Honors College (2021–2023)
Outstanding Nurse Scholar, Prisma Health Research Showcase (2019)
Watt Faculty Fellow, Inaugural Program (2018–2019)
Inductee, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Clemson University (2019)
Award for Student Engagement, CBSHS (2018)
Faculty Scholar, Clemson University School of Health Research (Since 2017)
Sigma Theta Tau Regional Excellence Award (2012)
NLN Scholar, NLN Scholarly Retreat (2011)

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