Ph.D., EJD, APRN-C, MSN, CNS, HCRM, FAANP, FAAN , Doctoral (Alumni)
Linda Joyce Washington-Brown, Ph.D., EJD, APRN-C, MSN, CNS, HCRM, FAANP, FAAN is the former founding Associate Dean for the RN-BSN Program and part-time faculty at Broward College. Dr. Washington-Brown has over 36-years of college/university teaching experience. She received an Executive Juris Doctorate from Concord Law School in 2007, a Ph.D. in Christian Counseling from Jacksonville Theological Seminary in 2002; her Ph.D. in nursing in 1996 and an MSN in 1987 from the University of Miami; BSN in 1984 from Florida International University; and ASN in 1972 from Miami Dade College (formerly Miami Dade Community College). Dr. Washington-Brown is an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in 1989, as an adult nurse practitioner (ANP) in 1996, and holds national certification from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She later completed the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program at Florida National University.
Dr. Washington-Brown was inducted as an AANP Fellow in 2018 and as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurses (AAN) in 2019 for her outstanding contributions to advanced practice nursing and population health. She also received the Advanced Practice Nurse Award in April 2018 from the Florida Nurses Association. Dr. Washington-Brown is a former post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Women, Children, and Families and in the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a Policy Fellow in W.E.B. Dubois Collective Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and an Ethnic/Racial Minority Fellow at the American Nurses Association. Dr. Washington-Brown has served as a grants reviewer and chair for the Division of Grants Management at Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA), for over 15-years, grants reviewer for the Florida Department of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a site visitor for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Florida Board of Education School Improvement Evaluation Team Member, American Heart Association (AHA) Seed Grant Program Task Force member, a board member for the American Heart Association (AHA) and Advanced Practice Council of South Florida, and currently serves on the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Miami Rescue Mission – Broward Outreach Centers organization and clinics, CARE Elementary School, former State Coordinator for the Association of Black Nursing Faculty (ABNF) for 5-years, and co-Chair of the AANP Nomination Council, after serving as secretary for two-years. She also serves on the Health and Wellness and Social Services committees for the Miami Dade County Public School (MDCPS).
Dr. Washington-Brown served as the vice-president of the Miami Chapter Black Nurses Association (BNA) for three-years before being elected to the presidency in January 2016 to December 2017; chair of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) Ad Hoc Committee on Immunizations for the Homeless, member of the ABNF Journal’s editorial board and reviewer for the Journal of Cultural Diversity. She has presented her work in reducing healthcare disparity among minority populations, principles of vaccination, COVID-19, implementation of academic service-learning, and research utilization of learning communities across America and outside of the United States. She has provided advanced nursing care to over 650 rural residents in Ecuador’s Guayas Province and trained over eighty international residents and nurses in healthcare simulation, cardiac care, and basic life support over the past three-years (2015, 2016, 2017). She recently was invited to return to the Leon Becerra Hospital in Guayaquil to continue training for over 150 new Ecuadorian nurses. Locally, she has provided Hands-only CPR training to over 150 parents of inner-city children learning to swim through a partnership with Professionals Sharing with a Purpose (PSWAP) Learn to Swim Program and the American Red Cross (ARC). Dr. Washington-Brown and volunteers from the Miami BNA organization provided educational seminars monthly for the past two years to over 1000 attendees from the Miami Gardens community, addressing heart health issues, sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes, obesity, breast and prostate cancer, and several other pertinent healthcare topics. Dr. Washington-Brown has authored several refereed articles, received funding for her research from Myrtle Grove Presbytery Church, AANP, Florida EMS Department, National Center for Nursing Research – National Institute of Health (NIH), Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) – Lambda Chi Chapter, Florida League for Nursing an (FLN) and other local and private organizations. She received the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Grant for her research project to vaccinate the homeless against pneumonia and influenza and the AANP Fellows grant for providing virtual health education to the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.