Linda Roney, Ed.D., RN-BC, FAAN is a professor of nursing at the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University. She works as a pediatric nurse at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital. She holds a B.S.N. from Villanova University and M.S.N. and Ed.D. degrees from Southern Connecticut University and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.