Lynn College of Nursing at the Florida Atlantic University. She received a diploma in nursing from Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing in Montclair, NJ, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL, and Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Science degrees from Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Longo has an extensive clinical background in neonatal intensive care nursing and is certified by the National Certification Corporation as a neonatal intensive care nurse. While working as a staff nurse, she became interested in interpersonal relationships between nurses and horizontal violence. She has presented on this topic nationally and internationally. Dr. Longo recently became a 2008 Julia Hardy RN American Nurses Foundation Scholar and through this grant will be developing a research instrument to measure horizontal violence.