Lex Linton

Title

Instructor (Brookings)

Office Building

Wagner Hall

Office

309

Mailing Address

Wagner Hall 309
College of Nursing-Box 2275
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• M.S.N. in nurse educator specialization | South Dakota State University | 2024
• B.A.N. | Augustana University | 2015
• B.A. in music | Augustana University | 2006
• Certifications: Inpatient OB (RNC-OB) and Fetal Heart Monitoring (C-FHM)

Academic Interests

• Maternal/newborn nursing
• Women's health Issues
• Population health
• Rural health
• Health equity 
• Nursing education

Academic Responsibilities

• NURS 235 Clinical Application I - Clinical Instructor
• NURS 258/L Nursing Principles and Application I: Assessment and Interventions (Lecture and Lab)
• NURS 294 Internship for CPT Students
• NURS 322 Pharmacology
• NURS 335 Clinical Application II - Pediatrics Non-Acute Clinical
• NURS 347 Concept Synthesis I
• NURS 435 Clinical Application IV- OB Clinical Instructor
• NURS 437 Concept Synthesis II
• NURS 444L Population-Centered Care Concepts - Clinical Instructor
• NURS 494 Internship
• NURS 495 Practicum: Capstone

Committees and Professional Memberships

• Welfare and Development Committee - SDSU College of Nursing
• Sigma Theta Tau
• South Dakota Nursing Association
• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN)
• National League of Nursing

Work Experience

• South Dakota State University 
  • Nursing instructor
• Sanford Health
  • Labor and delivery nurse and maternal flight nurse
• Midwest Street Medicine
  • Volunteer nurse
• Augustana University
  • Clinical instructor

Areas of Research

• Trans affirmative healthcare 
• Providing healthcare to the unhoused population