Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2008

About Linda Gilman

Linda Gilman retired in 2003 after 35 years as an IUPUI faculty member. After her retirement, she continued as a volunteer, teaching every spring at the School of Nursing, and as chairperson of the Nominations Committee for the School of Nursing Awards. For her outstanding work during her career at IU, Gilman was recognized as one of the IU School of Nursing's Top 100 Alumni Legacy Leaders.

Her impact on the nursing s bound to the development, funding, implementation, and evaluation of the Indiana University Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) program, which has graduates employed in all 50 states, the military, and foreign countries. Gilman wrote multiple grants to fund the PNP program for 18 years throughout the state of Indiana and the federal government. The PNP program was initially a continuing education program, but, through her curriculum development and evaluation, the program was moved into the graduate program in 1980. Gilman was also instrumental in the founding of the Association of Faculties of PNP Programs, which supports faculty for standards and competencies. She additionally wrote a grant to bring directors and faculty of NP programs to IUSON to develop Standards of Practice and Scope of Practice, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Certification Board for PNP's, now known as the Pediatric Nursing Certification board. Gilman actively supported the development of NAPNAP and served as it’s national and Indiana president.

Gilman was integral in working with NP's and the state legislature to have both the title and definition of ""nurse practitioner"" written into the State Nurse Practitioner Act. She was granted a sabbatical to work with Senator Virginia Blankenbaker to review the status of children in Indiana. From this collaboration, Gilman wrote Resolution 76, Children and Youth, which resulted in future child legislation. She was recognized by the Governor of Indiana as a "Sagamore of the Wabash" for inspiration in leadership.

Gilman has long been a member of a medical mission with HealthNet/Clarian Health Partners as a volunteer nurse

practitioner at a clinic in Monteria, Bolivia. She has also been a member of children's health care delegations to China, Ecuador, Peru, and Egypt, and has received distinguished awards from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners and Sigma Theta Tau Alpha Chapter, and was the recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the IU School of Nursing. The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners offers a scholarship award in her name.