Associate Professor Emeritus, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri; Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing, the Ohio State University Priscilla LeMone spent most of her career as a nurse educator, teaching medical–surgical nursing and pathophysiology at all levels from diploma to doctoral students.

She has a diploma in nursing from Deaconess College of Nursing (St. Louis, Missouri), baccalaureate and master’s degrees from Southeast Missouri State University, and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She is retired as an Associate Professor Emeritus, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, but continues to keep up to date in nursing both as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, College of Nursing and as an author of nursing textbooks.

Dr LeMone had numerous awards for scholarship and teaching during her more than 30 years as a nurse educator. She is most honoured for receiving the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the University of Missouri, the Unique Contribution Award from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, and for being selected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr LeMone currently lives in Ohio. She enjoys travelling, gardening, knitting and reading fiction. She believes that her education gave her solid and everlasting roots in nursing. Her work with students has given her the wings that have allowed her love of nursing and teaching to continue through the years.

Gerene Bauldoff is a Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. She has been a nurse educator for 14 years, teaching medical-surgical nursing, translational science, and evidence-based practice courses at the baccalaureate, master’s,and doctoral levels. Prior to her nursing educator role, her clinical background included home health nurse, lung transplant coordinator, and pulmonary rehabilitation coordinator.

Dr. Bauldoff has a diploma from the Western Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a BSN from LaRoche College in Pittsburgh. Her graduate education is from the University of Pittsburgh, with a MSN in medical-surgical nursing (cardiopulmonary clinical nurse specialist) and PhD in nursing in 2001, training under Leslie Hoffman, PhD, RN, FAAN. Dr. Bauldoff is an active member of multiple professional organizations including the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR), the American Thoracic Society Nursing Assembly, and the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP).

She is a recognized expert in medical-surgical nursing, focusing on the care of the patient with chronic pulmonary disease, serving on committees focusing on patient-centered outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation. She has been honored with fellowships in AAN, AACVPR, and ACCP. In 2013, Dr. Bauldoff was the keynote speaker at the Nanning Nursing Education Conference in Nanning, China, attended by representatives from more than 100 nursing schools in China.

Majella Hales has been nursing for over 20 years. After recently resigning from 10 years in Academia lecturing in science and nursing units, she now works freelance in the production of education resources for nurses and other undergraduate health care professionals.

She maintains her clinical experience by undertaking agency shifts in critical care units in hospitals across south east Queensland and provides clinical facilitation for undergraduate nursing students for various local universities.

Majella authoured several chapters of Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing Vols 1-3 and Lemone Burke's Medical Surgical Nursing. Along with journal articles and conference presentations, she has also produced the skills DVD for Tollefson's Clinical Psychomotor Skills text and adapted the American case study resource The Neighbourhood.

Dr. Trudy Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at CQUniversity Australia, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health, CQ University.

She is interested in the facilitating of learning in a clinical context.