Linda Lewis

Education

• Mercy School of Nursing
• B.S.N., Pennsylvania State University
• M.S.N., University of Pennsylvania

                                                                                                                                         

Professor Lewis earned a diploma of nursing from Mercy School of Nursing, Scranton, her bachelor's degree in nursing from Pennsylvania State University, and her master's in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a nurse for over 35 years. During her career she has served as a clinical nursing instructor at The University of Pennsylvania, a clinical nurse at Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Cardiology/Electrophysiology for 4 years, and she worked for 20 years as a nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she worked as a medical-surgical nurse, an ICU nurse in the CCU, a research nurse, and a clinical nurse for the department of Electrophysiology. Professor Lewis holds certification in Medical-Surgical Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is certified as an Acute/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She is a member of The American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Sigma Theta Tau, and the America Nurses Association.