Lora Shelton is no stranger to Samford University. Shelton received her graduate degree from Ida Moffett School of Nursing and worked as director of student health services from 1997 to 2000 before joining the nursing school seven years ago. Since then, Shelton has worked hard to emulate the faculty she had by having a genuine interest in her students’ personal and academic lives. She has also developed an international nursing studies course for missions and has traveled with Samford students to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. “It is amazing to see medical missions through a student's eyes and how the experience of an international studies course/medical mission can transform their nursing practice,” she said. “It is also a joy to serve alongside our students.”

Degrees and Certifications

• DNP, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• MSN, Samford University
• BSN, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Family Nurse Practitioner Certification, American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Certified Nurse Educator Certification, NLN National League for Nursing

• Occupational Health 
• Adult health nursing
• Interprofessional Education

Awards and Honors

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• Lamplighter Award, Alabama League for Nursing Involvement
• Alabama League for Nursing, Board of Directors
• National League for Nursing, Certifications Exam Item Writer

Recent Publications

• Shelton, L.R., Thomason, A.R., & Hensarling, R.W. (2022). Faculty fellowship in interprofessional education: An atypical approach to faculty development. Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 28 (2022), 100528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100528
• Hensarling, R.W., Shelton, L.R., & Thomason, A.R. (2020). Faith integration in the development of an interprofessional education faculty fellowship. Journal of Christian Nursing. 37(3)
• Shelton, L.R. & Hayne, A.N. (2017). Developing an instrument for evidence-based peer review of faculty online teaching. Nursing Education Perspectives, 38(3), 157-158.
• Mills, M.C., Shelton, L.R., & Dong, H.N. (2016). Ocular and visual side effects of various medications and nutritional/herbal supplements older adults use. The Deep South CME Network, UAB   Division of CME, Geriatric-Focused CME Courses.
• Shelton, L.R. (2013). A closer look at osteoarthritis. The Nurse Practitioner, 38(7), 30-36.

Recent Presentations 

• Barron, A., Berry, C., Shelton, L. (2023, September). Implementation of an innovative undergraduate exam review policy. 2023 NLN Education Summit, National Harbor, Maryland. (National). Poster Presentation. Peer-reviewed.
• Barron, A., Berry, C., Shelton, L. (2021, June). Differences in undergraduate nursing student exam scores after implementing a new exam review policy. 2021 Virtual ExamSoft Assessment Conference (international). Podium Presentation. Peer-reviewed.
• Barron, A., Berry, C., Shelton, L. (2019, June). Implementation of a New Exam Review Policy & Mapping a Curriculum: What Were We Thinking? 2019  Exam Soft Assessment Conference, Montreal, Canada (international). Poster Presentation. Peer-reviewed.
• Shelton, L., Cortes, C. & Collins, A.  (2017, July). A pilot interprofessional education practice project with migrant farm workers. Presented at the 2017 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Congress, Dublin, Ireland. 
• Thomason A.R., Hensarling R.W., Shelton L.R., Stoltzfus K.M. (2017, October). Fellowship for interprofessional development at Samford (FINDS). CAB VI 2017 October. Alberta, Canada (international). Poster Presentation. Peer-reviewed.
• Shelton, L., Collins, A., & Cortes, C. (2016, June). Chandler mountain migrant farm worker project: An innovation in Clinical Practice and Interprofessional Education. Poster session presented at the 2016 American Association of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.