Contact Hours: 1.0 including 1.0 Nursing Credit
Lynn Marie Bullock is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Office of Professional Education at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Dr. Bullock has an extensive background in nursing education and executive leadership. She currently teaches in the DNP Project Courses. As director of OPE, she oversees the School’s professional education and continuing education offerings, including symposia, conferences, institutes, lectures, and online continuing education courses. The office also offers Interprofessional continuing education programs in collaboration with other University of Maryland, Baltimore schools. UMSON is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Linda L. Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She is Co-Director of the Nurse Leadership Institute. Dr. Costa participated in interviewing 35 nurse leaders in practice and academia to develop the 2020 curriculum for NLI. She is a health services researcher focused on care transitions and patient outcomes. She developed a care coordination/population health curriculum for clinical nurses as part of an academic-practice partnership. She teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program and the Master of Science in Nursing in the Health Services Leadership and Management specialty. Dr. Costa received a BSN from the University of Maryland, her MSN and PhD from The Catholic University of America.