UCF Nursing Professor Dies Recently Being Honored for Innovation in the Teaching

Linda Howe, Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida (UCF), recently died on the day of May 13th at the 67 years old. The university is very saddened and disappointed by the loss of an esteemed faculty member, but the dean of the College of Nursing says Howe has left behind a legacy for present and future nursing students.

Howe was honored for her innovative teaching strategies in the month of October 2015 and inducted as a fellow into the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. Her creative teaching involved creating The Village, a unique case-based access to teaching pharmacology to involve students and increase their understanding of the content while motivating their self-discovery. It is an affordable and convenient adaptable teaching method that is now being utilized in more than seventy schools across the US. She also frequently utilized the book “The Other End of the Stethoscope” to teach nursing values by assisting students to see things from a sufferer’s perspective to teach ethics, caring, and the significance of patient education.

In her thirty year academic career, Howe held various faculty and leadership roles during her time as a nurse. Most prominently, Howe spent twelve years at Clemson University’s School of Nursing where she retired as an associate professor emerita before transforming to her position as an undergraduate associate professor at UCF for the past 3 years. Howe gained her BSN from the institute of University of Texas before starting her clinical career in intensive and critical care, the specialty she sustained in for most of her time as a nurse. She also acquired her MSN from Texas Women’s University and her PhD from the University of South Carolina. Her special research interests involved nursing and institutional history, nursing education strategies, pharmacogenomics, and deep tissue wound prevention and healing.