Clinical Assistant Professor
Education
Biography
Dr. Linda Paradise earned her BSN at Jacksonville State University in 1983. She received her MSN from the University of Florida in 2000 and is licensed as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Paradise obtained her DNP from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with the focus of her doctoral work on Palliative Care and Advance Directives.
The focus of Dr. Paradise’s nursing career has been in hospice End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care, were she has served in all nursing positions from RN case manager to Director of Clinical Care. She was the supervising Nurse Practitioner at a free-standing, in-patient, hospice care center in Orange City, FL.
In 2004 Dr. Paradise was founder and CEO of Palliative Care Partners in Decatur, Alabama. This was a community-based, not-for-profit nurse practitioner practice providing palliative care services. This organization provided the people of north Alabama with palliative care home visits until around 2017.
Dr. Paradise was a palliative care nurse practitioner with Aspire Health for several years. Her territory included several counties in north and central Alabama. She had a census of approximately 100 patients. Dr. Paradise visited these patients in their home to provide palliative care with the primary focus on symptom management. She led the palliative care team to also coordinated the patients’ care with other health care providers and organizations. Dr. Paradise served as the north Alabama team leader for Aspire Health. She was a mentor for her team and the other palliative care NPs across Alabama. She trained several new NP in palliative care.
She joined the faculty of the Capstone College of Nursing (CCN) in 2023. Her primary teaching assignments are in Community Health, Leadership, and Health Assessment. She has been a long-time member of Sigma Theta Tau, Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). She is passionate about serving on mission trips and has traveled to Kenya, Haiti, El Salvador, and three times to the Dominican Republic. Dr. Paradise is initiating and new travel abroad trip for CCN students to the Dominion Republic which is planned to start in 2026.