Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN, FAAN, APRN-BC, is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, and faculty member at the Center for Spirituality and Healing in the Academic Health Center. Her research as a Densford Scholar in the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership focuses on critical care nurses' attitudes toward and use of complementary and alternative therapies and cardiovascular patient response to the use of therapies in the context of hospitalization with acute cardiac conditions.