Ruth Lazard-Germain, APRN-BC, FNP, MSN-ED, is a professor at one of the nation’s top-rated Colleges in the state of Florida, where she has been a tenured faculty in the College of Nursing for the past ten years. She obtained her Post master’s Certificate in Education and Adult Learning in 2010, her Masters in Family Health Nursing in December of the same year, and Her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2000 from Florida International University. She has been a Nurse for 23 years and has spent the past ten years working as an FNP and Full-time Nursing faculty. As a nurse, she worked in the Medical/ Cardiac/Neuro ICU, Pediatric intensive care, Trauma, Transplant, Medical-surgical Nursing, and L&D. As a Nurse Practitioner, most of her experience is in Women’s Health, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Primary Care, and Hospice.
As an educator, she is certified by the Association of Colleges and Universities (ACUE) in best classroom practices in helping students develop critical thinking, engage with the subject matter, and nurture student engagement. She specializes in nursing curriculum development and design, NCLEX item development and writing, and curriculum revision. She is a student success coach working with at-risk students to create study strategies leading to successful program completion and passing of the NCLEX RN Exam. She is an expert in Learning and Study strategies, critical thinking development, and clinical reasoning proficiency.
She believes in an integrated approach to learning and incorporates both teaching-learning strategies and mindfulness in her approach to teaching.
Ruth enjoys a delightful book in her free time, spending time with her husband, two kids, and working out. She attends spin classes, yoga classes on the beach, or Pilates on any given day. Ruth enjoys walks on the beach, volunteering at the local church, and mentoring the next generation.
Sondia Bayard-Lindor, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC is a professor of Nursing at an accredited state college in Florida where she has been a faculty since 2010 which, during that time, has consistently been rated as one of the top two schools in Florida as a result of their high NCLEX board scores. She received her Associate degree in Nursing from Miami Dade College. She obtained her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Nursing from the University of Phoenix. She also pursued a Post-Masters Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner track from Purdue Global. She has been a nurse for the last 26 years and has spent the last 12 years in Nursing education. The majority of her experience has been as a critical care nurse (ICU), Medical Surgical, Orthopaedic, Mother-Baby, Telemetry and Oncology. She also works as Family Nurse practitioner in Woman Health, providing care to at risk population, which she enjoys. In addition, she is certified by the Association of Colleges and Universities (ACUE) in best practices in helping students develop skill, knowledge needed to help students engaged, motivated and ready to learn and succeed. Outside of her work, Sondia enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids. When she is not working, she loves reading, going to the beach, gardening and cooking. In addition, she volunteers and participate in mission work both at the community level and other countries.
Critical care nurse with 7 years working in the medical field. This would include several sub specialties in various pharmaceuticals such as nuclear and oncology. The inspiration of becoming a nurse is to serve those that cannot do for themselves. While doing so I have a passion to teach those that come after me. As one day I will be at the mercy of a nurse taking care of me. An amazing theory I live by is “The nurse as a wounded healer “. I look forward to working and guiding you along your journey.
