Linda Holt
Part-time Instructor
holtl@augsburg.edu

Born of an immigrant father and with a strong Norwegian heritage, Linda gained a continuing interest in the importance of a person’s cultural background. She earned her B.S.N. at the University of Minnesota and then pursued clinical experience in maternity and medical-surgical nursing in addition to community health nursing. Several years after earning her B.S.N., she and her husband took their toddler son to Nigeria, where they lived for the better part of a decade.

After returning to the States, Linda struggled through re-entry shock and then, instead of acute care nursing, became involved in community development at a neighborhood level. She was introduced to transcultural nursing in connection with a visit to the Augsburg Central Nursing Center. Deeply moved, she was determined to return to school to learn more about this field of nursing. Because Augsburg did not yet have an approved program, she and her husband moved temporarily to Seattle, where she pursued a master’s degree in community health nursing with a cross-cultural focus. She is now certified in transcultural nursing.

Education
B.S.N., University of Minnesota
M.N., University of Washington, Seattle

Research and Scholarly Interests
Transcultural Nursing
Correspondence between health and a nurturing of spirituality, including attention to beauty and to hospitality

Recent Publications
Holt, L. (2001). End of life customs among immigrants from Eritrea. Journal of
Transcultural Nursing, 12(2), 146-154.

Areas of Teaching and Responsibility
Co-coordinator of the Augsburg Central Nursing Center