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Linda Briggs

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Linda Briggs

D.N.P., ACNP-BC, FAANP, ANP-BC

Program Director, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Associate Professor (Tenured)

Contact:

Email: Linda Briggs
Office Phone: 202-994-6259
Remote

Linda A. Briggs is a tenured associate professor of nursing and director of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program. Her leadership roles have included president of the Nurse Practitioner Association of the District of Columbia, president of the Greater Washington Area Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and member of the Cardiovascular Standing Committee at the National Quality Forum. She has served in a variety of practice roles, including as a cardiovascular surgery program coordinator, a hospitalist nurse practitioner and a nurse practitioner for an interventional cardiology service. Dr. Briggs has been educating nurse practitioner students since 1996 and maintains dual certification as both an adult nurse practitioner and an acute care nurse practitioner. She is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, a 2017 recipient of the GW Bender Teaching Award and was a Fulbright Specialist (2017-2022).

  • The George Washington University – Doctor of Nursing Practice (2010)
  • The Catholic University of America – Post-Master's Certificate in the field of Adult Nurse Practitioner (1994)
  • The Catholic University of America – Master of Science in Nursing (1998)
  • The University of Maryland – Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1978)

Publications

  • Pintz, C., Briggs, L., Zhou, Q. P., Nelson, K., & Guzzetta, C. E. (2021). Hospital-based nursing research: Clinical and economic outcomes. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 44(4), 356-366. doi: 10.1177/0193945921994911
  • Leslie, M. S., Park, J., Briggs, L. A., El-Banna, M., & Greene, J. (2020). Is anemia in low income pregnant women related to their infants’ having anemia? A cohort study of pregnant women-infant pairs in the United States, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 24(6), 768-776.
  • Leslie, M. S., & Briggs, L. A. (2019). Preeclampsia and future cardiovascular disease in women. Preeclampsia Foundation Position Paper. Preeclampsia Foundation https://www.preeclampsia.org/images/pdf/FINAL_PE_CVD_POSITION-PAPER.pdf
  • Briggs, L. A., (2018). Deciphering chest pain in women. The Nurse Practitioner, 43(4), 25-33.
  • Greene, J., El-Banna, M., Briggs, L., & Park, J. (2017). Gender differences in nurse practitioner salaries. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 29(11), 667-672.
  • Leslie, M. S., & Briggs, L. A. (2016). Preeclampsia and the risk of future vascular disease and mortality. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 61, 
  • Brown, H., & Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 17: Hypertensive emergencies. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 18: Acute coronary syndrome. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 20: Shock states: Cardiogenic and obstructive. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Brown, H., & Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 21: Aortic dissection. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer
  • Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 22: Pericarditis and infective endocarditis. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Brown, H., & Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 23: Syncope. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Briggs, L. A. (2015). Chapter 24: Sudden cardiac death and arrest. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Briggs, L. A., & Anderson, K. (2015). Chapter 19: Acute decompensated heart failure. The advanced practice nurse cardiovascular clinician. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Athey, E., Leslie, M. S., Briggs, L. A., Park, J., Falk, N., Pericak, A., El-Banna, M., & Greene (2015). How important are autonomy and work setting to nurse practitioners’ job satisfaction.  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
  • El-Banna, M. M., Briggs, L. A., Leslie, M. S., Athey, E. K., Pericak, A., Falk, N. L., & Greene, J. (2015). Does prior RN clinical experience predict academic success in graduate nurse practitioner programs? Journal of Nursing Education, 54(5), 276-280.
  • Posey, L., Davis, S., Briggs, L., & Sheingold, B. (2014). Communities of inquiry in online nurse practitioner education. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10(10), e77-e86.

 

Presentations:

  • Stealthy Enemy:  Ischemic Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease (INOCA). Wichita State University, Townsend Cardiovascular Nursing Symposium. September 2024
  • Stealthy Threat:  Ischemic Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease (INOCA) - American Association of Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute. May 2024
  • Fellow, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
  • Fellow, Nightingale Society
  • Award for the Student with the Highest Average in Scholarship — The University of Maryland Alumni Association
  • Nurse practitioner workforce and scope of practice issues
  • Cardiovascular disease in women
  • Acute Care
  • Cardiovascular
  • Health Care Simulation
  • Health Care Workforce
  • Hypertensive Disorders
  • Other