Leslie Folds
Associate Professor of Nursing
Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing
APRN; PMHCNS-BCCNE; (Certified Nurse Educator); PMHCNS-BC (Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist-Board Certified); EdD Trevecca Nazarene University; MSN Vanderbilt University; BA (Psychology) Wheaton College
Location: Inman Center 203 A
615-460-6101leslie.folds@belmont.edu
Biography
Leslie joined the Belmont faculty in the fall of 2003. She is the course coordinator for mental health nursing and teaches in both the classroom and clinical settings. Leslie is also the Belmont faculty member that developed and coordinates the nursing externship course, an innovative partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in which students are immersed into the clinical setting. This partnership was recognized as a best practice model in the U.S. by the Nursing Executive Center in 2008 and published in Bridging the Preparation Practice Gap.
Another contribution Leslie has made is her work on a Robert Wood Johnson Grant that helped to fund and prepare expert staff nurses to become adjunct clinical faculty members. She continues to maintain her certification as an advanced practice nurse in psychiatric nursing by maintaining one practice day each week.
No honor achieved in her career is more valued by Dr. Folds, personally or professionally, than being awarded The Presidential Faculty Achievement Award, the university’s yearly award recognizing a faculty member demonstrating dedication and commitment to Belmont’s mission to be a student-centered institution and as exemplified by one’s service to students both inside and outside the classroom.