Faculty Narrative
Linda D. Norman, DSN, RN, FAANSenior Associate Dean for Academics
Professor of Nursing
Linda Norman graduated from the University of Virginia with a BSN and MSN in Adult Health Nursing. She 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 Grant.