Professor of Nursing
Longwood University

Kimberly Little is a professor of nursing and chair of Longwood University’s Department of Nursing. She has 24 years of teaching, scholarship and service in the nursing field. Dr. Little received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurse Educators in 2011, was a 2015 finalist for the March of Dimes Virginia Nurse Educator of the Year and was chosen for Longwood’s Simpson Distinguished Professorship in 2022. Under her leadership, the Longwood Nursing program has earned many accolades and recently received the 2024 Benchworks Assessment and Impact Award in Nursing Education. Dr. Little holds a B.S.N. from Lenoir-Rhyne University, an M.S.N. from Gardner-Webb University and a Ph.D. from University of Nevada at Las Vegas. In addition, she holds a post-Master’s Certificate for Nurse Practitioner from Vanderbilt University. She has maintained national certification as a Nurse Educator for more than two decades.

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