Lynde Thelen is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and a faculty member at the University of Sioux Falls. Her teaching responsibilities are in the undergraduate programs focused on health promotion and disease prevention, fundamentals in nursing skills labs, pharmacology, spiritual, ethical, and cultural nursing, evidence-based practice, and simulation-based learning.
Thelen's research interests are in the areas of simulation-based learning in healthcare and medication competence among nurses.
Thelen has completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at South Dakota State University and a Master of Science in Nursing with a focus on nursing education at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Thelen has completed a Ph.D. in Nursing at South Dakota State University with a focus on medication competence and nursing pharmacology education..