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Dr. Sharon Tucker, a distinguished scholar in psychiatric mental health nursing and evidence-based practice, is the dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida.
Tucker joined UCF as a professor and chair of the Department of Nursing Practice in 2024 after previously serving as executive director of the Fuld Evidence-based Practice Institute and associate dean at The Ohio State University. Her leadership experience spans more than two decades and includes roles at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the Mayo Clinic where she began her clinical career.
As a leader and scholar, Tucker has made sustained impacts on the profession by empowering nurses through a culture of well-being and leveraging evidence-based and data-driven decisions to improve patient outcomes.
To date, she has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. In addition, she is co-author of an evidence-based practice 2.0 article series in the American Journal of Nursing, co-author of the award-winning Evidence-Based Practice in Action (Second Edition), and serves as associate editor for Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing.
As a result of her significant contributions to the profession, she has been honored as a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice in Nursing and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the most prestigious recognition in nursing.
Tucker is nationally board certified as an adult psychiatric-mental clinical nurse specialist and as an integrative nurse coach. She holds a Ph.D. from Rush University, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, a bachelor’s degree from the College of Saint Teresa and an associate degree from Rochester Community College. She is also a fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, a three-year advanced leadership program to prepare nurses to lead at the highest level.