Linda M. Ferguson

Dr. Linda M. Ferguson is a Full Professor in the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. Her undergraduate, masters and PhD are in the field of nursing, and she has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Continuing Education. She has worked extensively in the field of faculty development within the College of Nursing and the University of Saskatchewan. She has taught educational methods courses at the undergraduate (nursing and physical therapy), post-registration, masters, and doctoral levels for the past seventeen years. Her research has focused on the continuing education needs of Registered Nurses in practice, continuing education needs of precepting nurses, mentorship, preceptorship, teaching excellence, interprofessional education, and the process of developing clinical judgement in nursing practice. She is currently the Director of the new Centre for the Advancement of the Study of Nursing Education and Interprofessional Education (CASNIE) within the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan.