Mary Lynn, PhD, RN
Professor, School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
After working as a staff and charge nurse in pediatric intensive care at Orange Memorial Hospital, Dr. Lynn attended the University of Florida where she earned the BSN and MN degrees from the College of Nursing, and the PhD in Psychometrics and Evaluation from the College of Education. She has served on the faculties of the University of Mississippi and the University of Arizona prior to coming to Chapel Hill in 1991. Her research interests are in the areas of measuring quality of care, the expectations patients have for care, work satisfaction, and instrument development and testing.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description: According to the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), the ideal interprofessional clinical learning environment (CLE) is a ‘shared space between various professions collaborating with patients and caregivers, working together to provide the best care possible’ and occurs in any areas where professional students are training1. While great strides have been made in interprofessional education, more work is needed to maximize the CLE to be an ideal interprofessional practice space. Designing an assessment tool to provide…