Shermel Edwards-Maddox, MSN, RN, CNE, RN-BC, currently serves as a Professor of Practice at the University of Houston in the College of Nursing and a relief charge nurse on a medical-surgical unit at a local hospital. She has over 10 years as a medical-surgical nurse and 15 years as an educator. She has worked on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and has experience in cardiology, neurology, gynecology, urology, and end of life care.

In her current role, she is responsible for ongoing curriculum development and evaluation, classroom and clinical instruction in the undergraduate nursing program using on-site, simulation, online, and distance education strategies. Previously, she was a clinical nurse educator for a medical-surgical unit and oversaw the training and development of newly hired and new graduate nurses, and led and supported performance improvement and evidence-based practice projects throughout the hospital.