Lynn Parsons

Lynn C Parsons, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Dr. Lynn C. Parsons has served as Professor and Department Chair/Nursing since August 2011. Prior to that she served as Associate Professor, Professor, Associate Director for Research & Development in the School of Nursing, Interim Associate Dean for the College of Basic & Applied Sciences, Director of the School of Nursing from 1995-2011 at Middle Tennessee State University. She was a doctoral student, doctoral candidate and Instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the graduate program, MSN Nursing Administration track from 1993-1995. She was a staff RN, charge RN, Assistant Nurse Manager for Neuro Rehabilitation, Nurse Manager Neurorehabilitation, and Nurse Manager for an Orthopaedic Trauma and Surgical Unit at Marquette General Hospital’s teaching/referral organization from 1979-1993. She is certified as a Nurse Executive Advanced through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. L. Parsons is an accreditation site reviewer for CCNE and ACEN. She was the C. Louise Caudill Endowed Professor in Nursing at Morehead State University until June 2024. Currently she is Contributing faculty in the Nurse Executive track, MSN program at Walden University. She also teaches in the DNP program at Texas Christian University and is adjunct faculty and a consultant for Texas A&M University - Victoria.

Courses Taught

NURS 6600 - Capstone

NURS 6053 - Inter Prof Org & Sys Ld

Education

PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Presentations

Sullivan, D., Weatherspoon, D. L., Parsons, L. (2017). Disruptive Innovation of the High-Fidelity Simulation Market: How Electronic Interactive Simulation is Taking Market Share..