Dr. Caputi is Professor Emeritus, College of DuPage in Illinois, has taught in LPN, ADN, BSN, and MSN programs, and is President of Linda Caputi, Inc., a nursing education consulting company. Dr. Caputi has consulted with over a thousand nursing schools on teaching clinical judgment, revising curriculum, developing a new curriculum, transforming clinical education, test item writing and analysis, student retention, increasing NCLEX pass rates, and has also presented at over 1,000 workshops and nursing education conferences. She has won six awards for teaching excellence from Sigma Theta Tau, is included in 3 years of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," was nominated for the Outstanding Teacher Award in 2005 from the National League for Nursing (NLN), and was presented the 2004 Educator of the Year Award from the Organization of Associate Degree Nursing.For ten years Dr. Caputi served as the editor of the Innovation Center, a column in the NLN's journal "Nursing Education Perspectives," and has served on the NLN's Board of Governors.
Dr. Caputi is a Certified Nurse Educator and was inducted as a fellow into NLN's Academy of Nursing Education.Dr. Caputi has published numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, educational software programs, online learning materials, and even board games for nursing students. She edited the "Certified Nurse Educator Review Book: The Official NLN Guide to the CNE® Exam" (2020, 2nd edition) and five other books published by the National League for Nursing. She co-authored with Dr. Jean Giddens "Mastering Concept-based Teaching" (1st and 2nd editions). The 2nd edition of her three-volume book "Teaching Nursing: The Art and Science" won the 2010 Top Teaching Tools Award in the print category from the Journal of Nursing Education.
Dr. Caputi is the author of "Think Like a Nurse: The Caputi Method for Learning Clinical Judgment" (2022), a textbook for nursing students. This text teaches what clinical judgment is and presents a detailed framework for students to use when applying clinical judgment to nursing content to plan individualized, quality patient care and for preparing for the clinical judgment aspect of the Next Generation NCLEX.