Lynn E. Andersen 

Assistant Professor
Nursing and Health Professions
Rivier University
United States of America

Professor Nursing
Biography

Hospital in Brookline Massachusetts as staff and intermittent charge nurse on a medical-surgical nursing floor and then in the ICU/CCU at Norwood Hospital, Norwood, Massachusetts. During this time, she attended Boston College Graduate School of Nursing, attaining her Master of Science Degree with a medical-surgical nursing teaching specialty. Her first teaching experience was as a Fundamentals and Medical-Surgical Nursing Instructor at Boston University. After a four year hiatus raising her daughters, Lynn taught for seven years as a part-time Instructor in the St. Joseph Hospital Licensed Practical Nursing Program. She then began teaching part-time and then full time at Rivier. She currently teaches Pediatric, Care of the Adult and Mental Health Clinical; Fundamentals and Care of the Adult I Sim Lab; and Capstone. She is an active member of the Rivier-St Joseph Nursing Honor Society, other nursing committees, and Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners. She anticipates graduating May, 2011 from Rivier with a Certificate in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program.

Research Intrest

Medical-Surgical Nursing and Family Practice

List of Publications
Andersen LE (1976) Predictive value of selected admission criteria for graduate nursing education. Nurs Res 25: 296-299.