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Academic Degrees
BSN, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland
MHA, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Email: ltondreau@cc.nih.gov
Phone: 301-451-0531
Biosketch:
Linda Tondreau is the Nurse Manager for 3 SWN/ Procedure Services and 5 NE- N / Diagnostic Testing, and Ambulatory Clinics: OP12 and OP13. As the Nurse Manager, she manages a comprehensive procedural unit offering non-sedating and moderate conscious sedation services, which includes bronchoscopy, endoscopy, cardiac catherization and vascular access device(s) insertion utilizing ultrasound. On 5NE-N, she manages the cardiac diagnostic testing unit, which includes Exercise stress tests, liaison to the Research teams in ECHO and Pulmonary Function procedures. As of November 2015, provides support for procedures with anesthesia support (DPM) in both pediatrics and adults.
Linda started her nursing career as a Trauma/ Critical Care Nurse in 1993, at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1993 until 2001, she worked in various ICU settings, PACU and Operating room. She came to NIH in September 2001 to join the Surgical ICU team as a Clinical Research Nurse. In 2009, she became the Clinical Manager for 3 SWN/ Procedure Services. Linda has been very passionate about Performance improvement initiatives and/ or projects at the unit level. She was an active participant in the Shared Governance model in the Clinical Center Nursing Department as the Chair of Performance Improvement Committee. She was co-author on two publications related to the Domain of Practice in the specialty of Clinical Research Nursing: Delineating Clinical Research Nursing Practice: Results of a Role Delineation Study, 2011, Clinical and Translational Science and Validating the Clinical Research Nursing Domain of Practice,2011, Oncology Nursing Forum.