Assistant Professor of Nursing
Texas Tech University Health Scienc
Dallas, Texas
Dr. Edwards received her PhD in Nursing from Texas Women’s University in Denton, Texas. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas and the Director of Forensic Nurse Staffing of West Texas. Dr. Edwards was certified as an adult and pediatric sexual assault nurse examiner in 2005 by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas and Board Certified as an Advanced Forensic Nurse by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2017. Over the past 17 years, she has treated greater than 500 victims of sexual abuse in Lubbock and Collin County. As a practicing forensic nurse, Dr. Edwards works as a sexual assault nurse examiner and as a legal nurse consultant. She is a content expert in the field of forensic nursing and has lectured both nationally and internationally on issues of violence against women and children. Dr. Edwards is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists and has formally been recognized by the United States Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime, the Hi-Plains Chapter of the Emergency Nurses Association, the Young Professionals of Greater Lubbock, Great 100 Nurses of Dallas-Ft. Worth, and as a Distinguished Alumni from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing.
