About the Author: Edie West, Ph.D., ACNS-BC, RN is a Professor of Nursing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). She joined IUP in Fall 2006. She completed her Ph.D. at Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom in 2008 and has maintained an Advanced Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist-Basic Care Certification since 2004. She began her nursing career with a Bachelor’s in Nursing from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA in 1984. Professor West’s research and scholarly writings stem from her interests in and passions for nursing ethics, history, public/community health and international/global nursing, and has resulted in professional recognition and solicitation to serve as both reviewer and editor for several scholarly national and international journals of professional nursing, including the Journal of Nursing Education, Nurse Education in Practice and International Nursing Review. Dr. West’s most recent award was in recognition for her scholarly work entitled, ‘Constructivist Theory and Concept Based Learning in Professional Nursing Ethics: Implications for Nurse Educators’ published in Teaching Ethics (doi: 10.5840/tej201633129). She currently serves as a Director for the Southwestern Association of Occupational Health Nurses (SWAOHN) and as Newsletter Editor and Webmaster for the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing's Zeta Lambda Chapter.