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Lienne D Edwards
Dr. Edwards is Associate Director of the School of Nursing, Undergraduate Division, at UNC Charlotte. She has been a nurse educator since 1973 and at UNC Charlotte since 1982. As a master teacher, Dr. Edwards has been the recipient of her College’s Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award and Clinical Teaching Award. In 2004 she was one of the five finalists for the University’s Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Edwards provides leadership in the Centralina RIBN program, a collaborative effort by UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, Gaston College, Central Piedmont Community College and Carolinas College of Health Sciences, to regionally increase baccalaureate nurses. She also serves on the North Carolina Future of Nursing task force on increasing baccalaureate-prepared nurses. Dr. Edwards serves on the Commission on Accreditation for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and on the Continuing Education Approver Unit for the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA). Dr. Edwards is a recipient of a 4-year $2.3 million HRSA Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students grant, a 2-year AHEC grant to expand clinical capacity through the use of human patient simulators, and a fully-funded, 3-year HRSA Nursing Workforce Diversity grant for the project, Crossing Borders: Empowering Nursing Students for Academic Success.
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