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| Immersion Experience 2011: Leadership
in Nursing Education: A Call to Reform
Mt Washington Conference Center on the campus of
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
June 5 - June 9, 2011
Keynote Speaker
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Linda D. Norman, DSN, RN, FAAN
 Linda
Norman is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She graduated from
the University of Virginia with a BSN and MSN in Adult Health
Nursing, and received her DSN from the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. She has been involved in nursing education for
30 years, serving in administrative positions for the past 20
years, 14 of which have been at Vanderbilt University School
of Nursing as the associate dean of academics.
She has also been actively involved in the area of continuous
quality improvement for the past 12 years, serving on the advisory
committee for the Interdisciplinary Professional Education Collaborative
and the Kitchen Cabinet for Professional Education of the Institute
for Health Care Improvement. She is a founding member of IHI's
Summer Institute for Leadership in Quality Improvement for Health
Professional Educators. She serves on the research team to evaluate
the effectiveness of the Johnson and Johnson Media Campaign
related to the nursing shortage. She developed the evaluation
component for several curricula and education projects using
a continual improvement framework. Most recently, she developed
the evaluation/improvement process for the National Health Professional
Preparedness Consortium curriculum for mass casualty and is
the evaluator for an AHRQ bioterrorism educational project grant.
In addition, she serves on the executive committee of the International
Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education.
She has been recognized for her expertise and knowledge of nursing
education and quality improvement, as evidenced by her induction
into the American Academy of Nursing in 2004. She is a member
of the Health Resource Service Agency National Advisory Committee
on Nursing Education and Practice and the National League for
Nursing Accreditation Commission's Review Panel. She was invited
to serve as a member of the research team to evaluate the impact
of the Johnson & Johnson Nursing Media Campaign. She also
serves on two corporate advisory committees, the Nursing Advisory
Committee for the Healthstream Corporation and the advisory
committee for Upstream Health Solutions.
She is active in international nursing activities, recently
being named co-chair of the NLN/NLNAC Global Education Task
Force. She is a visiting professor to Bournemouth University,
Bournemouth, UK. She served as the principal investigator for
a six university nursing student exchange program between the
US and Europe funded by a Department of Education, to study
developing intercultural competence in multicultural health
care workforces. In April 2003, she was a member of a visiting
scholar team in Japan concerning mass casualty education for
nursing and health care, and was invited to serve as an external
evaluator for the Hyogo University in a Disaster Nursing Research
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