Jodi Erickson, PhD, RN, CNL
Assistant Professor and ELMSN Coordinator

Email: ericksja@plu.edu
- Biography
Biography
Jodi has worked with the senior citizen population for two and a half decades in a variety of positions. When she became a nurse in 2011, she realized that people did not die in a way that they desired. She earned her PhD at Villanova University and her dissertation focused on end-of-life decision making.
Education
BA Linguistics, University of Washington
MSN Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University
PhD Nursing Education, Villanova University
Teaching Areas
Professional Foundations I, Leadership, NCLEX Synthesis
Scholarly Interests
End of Life Decision Making
Qualitative Research
Current Practice
RN Hospital Supervisor at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital
Publications
“Bedside Nurse Involvement in End-of-Life Decision Making: A Brief Review of the Literature”
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, Volume 32, Issue 2, March/April 2013
Erickson, J. (2020). Horizontal leadership. In King, CR & Gerard, SO Clinical Nurse Leader: Certification Review 3rd ed. New York: Springer
Presentations
Erickson, J. (2019). How older adults understand the meaning of allow natural death: A qualitative study. Poster presentation at Western Institute of Nursing 2019 Research Conference, San Diego, CA.
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