Linda Pappola, MS, BSN, RN, joined Lifespan Workforce Development for Rhode Island Hospital in September 2022. She loves teaching and mentoring students and has 13 years of experience developing programs as a nursing educator.
Her career began on a medical-surgical unit at Rhode Island Hospital. Pappola has over 18 years of nursing experience which includes medical, surgical, cardiac step down, and critical care areas as well as risk management and leadership experience within Lifespan.
Pappola received her bachelor of science in nursing in 2004 from the University of Rhode Island and a master of science in nursing education in 2018.