Kristen Lombard

Kristen Lombard, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, AHN-BC is an Associate Professor at University of San Francisco (USF) in the School of Nursing and Health Professions where she teaches psychiatric-mental health, Quality Improvement, Health Policy/Ethics/Advocacy, and leadership to nursing graduate students in the Master Entry Option. 

Dr. Lombard’s 42-year career has been diverse and has taken her from large to small hospital systems, acute & primary care, long term care, residential settings, home and community care, and private practice. In higher education, she has taught in holistic MSN, RN-BSN, BSN, ASN, and certificate programs. She has held leadership roles in higher education, hospital administration, consultation, staff development, and in her own business.

• Holistic Nursing Education Curriculum Development
• Relationship-based Care®
• Caring-healing consciousness
• Caring science
• Innovations in human-centered leadership
• Reflective practice
• Gero-psychiatric nursing
• Holistic/integrative care
• Circle practice

• Moral distress
• Reflective practice
• Transformational leadership
• Relationship-centered care
• Presence
• Thriving work environments

• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) PhD, 2012
• University of Virginia, MSN, 1987
• Syracuse University, BSN, 1982

• Dean, Associate Dean, Associate Professor, MSN Director, Pacific College of Health and Science
• Adjunct Professor, California State University at Fullerton
• Lead Consultant, Creative Health Care Management
• Assistant Professor, University of Maine at Augusta

• Lombard, K., Wright, D. & Nichols, T. (2017). Embedding relational practices in M. Koloroutis and D. Abelson, Eds., Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures. Minneapolis, MN: Creative Health Care Management. (Award-winning book ACHE 2018 and Sigma Theta Tau 2019).
• Lombard, K. & Horton-Deutsch, S. (2017). Creating space for reflection: The importance of presence in the teaching-learning process. In G. Sherwood and S. Horton-Deutsch, Eds., Reflective practice: A framework for engaging learners in education and practice. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau Press.
• Lombard, K. (2016). The Circle Way to authentic leadership. Nursing Management, 47(5), 13-16.