
Faculty and Staff Profile
Linda WardAssociate Professor![]() Office: Edwards 411 Phone: 864 656-5528 Email: ldward@clemson.edu | |
Educational BackgroundPhD Nursing MN Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner BS Microbiology BSN Nursing | Courses TaughtHCG 9330, Interdisciplinary Research
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ProfileLinda Ward is an associate professor at Clemson University School of Nursing. She came to Clemson in 2018 from Washington State University, Washington’s land grant university in Spokane. Dr. Ward’s early career was as a laboratorian in analytic chemistry and clinical microbiology. In 1995, she turned to the nursing profession, earning a BSN and working as an RN as she continued her education to become a family nurse practitioner and nurse educator. Her practice as a nurse practitioner was in primary care, home health, and student health. In 2003, she completed a genetics fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, which led her to pursue a nursing doctoral degree. Her dissertation and research focus on integration of genetics and genomics into nursing education. Dr. Ward developed the Genomic Nursing Concept Inventory (GNCI), an instrument to measure knowledge of genetic and genomic concepts essential to nursing practice. The GNCI has been validated among nursing students, nursing faculty and practicing nurses, and data inform evidence-based approaches to genomic nursing education. Dr. Ward implemented the Genomic Nursing Cyberhub, a web-based platform that supports faculty deployment of the GNCI to inform curricular planning and evaluation. Dr. Ward has published several manuscripts around genomic nursing education and holds a genetic nurse education expert designation through the National Human Genome Research Institute. She has also written several genetics chapters for nursing texts. She served on the editorial board of G2C2, an NIH-based repository of genetic and genomic education resources, and served a four-year term on the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) with the CDC. | |
Research InterestsGenetic-genomic education for healthcare providers
Research PublicationsRead, C. Y., & Ward, L. D. (2018). Misconceptions about genomics among nursing faculty and students. Nurse Educator, 43(4), 196-200. doi:10.1097/NNE.00000000000000444
Honors and AwardsSigma Theta Tau International. Delta Chi Chapter-At-Large Excellence in Nursing Research Award. Presented March 28, 2017 at the STTI Induction and Awards Ceremony, Spokane, WA.
LinksGenomic Nursing Cyberhub |