About

I am Dr. Linda Caputi and have contributed to nursing education for over 40 years. In addition to consulting across those 40 years, 35 years of that time was spent directly teaching nursing students in a variety of nursing programs including LPN, ADN, BSN, and MSN in Nursing Education. I am credentialed as a Certified Nurse Educator and a member of National League for Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau. I was inducted into the NLN’s Academy of Nursing Education in 2010.

I earned a Masters in Nursing Education from Loyola University, Chicago and a Doctor of Education from Northern Illinois University. A large part of my graduate studies focused on designing quality learning experiences which included taking on the very elusive topic of teaching nursing students how to “Think Like a Nurse.” The work to develop a solid approach for learning clinical judgment spanned across 2 decades culminating in 2001 with the rudimentary version of the current Caputi Clinical Judgment Framework. Since that time the Caputi Clinical Judgment Framework has matured to its current version which is offered in the nursing student textbook Think Like a Nurse: The Caputi Method for Learning Clinical Judgment.