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Linda Bergstrom, CNM, PhD
Contact Information:
- Mailing Address:
- University of Utah
- College of Nursing
- 10 South 2000 East
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5880
- Phone: (801) 585-9622
- FAX: (801) 581-4642
- E-mail: linda.bergstrom@nurs.utah.edu
Background:
I am a Certified Nurse Midwife who moved to Salt Lake this summer from the Rosebud Sioux (Lakota) Indian Reservation in Rosebud, South Dakota, where I had been in clinical midwifery practice. I have a PhD in nursing from the University of Colorado, as well as degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. I am a veteran of the Navy Nurse Corps and have also held faculty positions at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, and East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.Professional Activities:
| 1998-Present | Member, Sigma Theta Tau International, Kappa Zeta Chapter-at-Large |
| 1988-Present | Member, American College of Nurse-Midwives |
Recent Publications:
Bergstrom L, Pokorny ME, Davis MB, Wootten TO. (1999). Full circle. The nurse-midwifery careers of Elizabeth Berryhill and Gabriela Olivera. Nurs Hist Rev UNITED STATES,7,29-45.
Bergstrom L. (1997). Midwifery as a discipline. J Nurse Midwifery UNITED STATES,42(5),417-20.
Bergstrom L, Roberts J, Skillman L, Seidel J. (1992). "You'll feel me touching you, sweetie": vaginal examinations during the second stage of labor. Birth UNITED STATES,19(1),10-8; discussion 19-20.
McCarthy MP, Craig C, Bergstrom L, Whitley EM, Stoner MH, Magilvy JK. (1991). Caring conceptualized for community nursing practice: Beyond caring for individuals. In Anthology on Caring (P.L. Chinn). New York, National League for Nursing Press, 85-93.
Hester NO, Foster RL, Kristensen K, Bergstrom L. (1989). Measurement of children's pain by children, parents, and nurses: Psychometric and clinical issues related to the poker chip tool and the pain ladder. (final grant report). Denver, CO: School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Presentations:
| 01/97 | 19th Annual International Caring Conference, Helsinki, Finland |
| 01/96 | 9th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 01/96 | 13th Annual Conference on the History of Nursing, Cleveland, OH |
| 01/95 | Qualitative Health Research Conference, Bournemouth, England |
| 01/95 | International Nursing Research Conference, Athens, Greece |
| 01/94 | East Carolina University, School of Nursing, Greenville, NC |
| 01/94 | Qualitative Health Research Conference, Hershey, PA |
| 01/94 | Critical and Feminist Theory Conference, Seattle, WA |
| 01/91 | NAACOG, Region VI annual meeting, Chicago, IL |
| 04/90 | American College of Nurse-Midwives, annual meeting, Atlanta, GA |
| 01/89 | Australian Sociological Association, annual meeting, Latrobe University, Bundoora, Australia |
| 01/89 | Clemson University Post-Doctoral Conference on Critical and Feminist Theories and Nursing Inquiry, Asheville, NC |
| 01/89 | American Nurses' Association Council of Nurse Researchers, Chicago, IL |
| 01/88 | School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, conference on women's health care |
| 01/85 | School of Nursing in Kalmar and in Vaxjo, Sweden, guest lecturer |
| 01/85 | National Women's Studies Association, annual meeting, Seattle, WA |
| 01/84 | Second Annual United States Nicaragua Health Colloquium, Managua, Nicaragua |
Honors, Recognitions and Awards:
| 1998 | Finalist, East Carolina University Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award |
| 1985 | Member and Chairperson of founding steering committee, Kappa Zeta Chapter-at Large, Sigma Theta Tau |