Jeanne Novotny is Dean and Professor at the Fairfield University School of Nursing located in Fairfield, Connecticut. Novotny was named a 2002 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in recognition of her outstanding contributions to nursing. She received two Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing for Distance Education in Nursing (Springer Publishing Company; 2nd edition, 2005) and The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Nursing (Springer Publishing Company; 3rd Edition, 2006).