Dr. Day graduated in 1984 with an Associate Degree in Nursing from Long Beach City College in California and went on the complete a BSN, MS and PhD at the University of California San Francisco. She has worked as a staff RN in post-anesthesia recovery, cardiac medicine, and neuroscience, and as a clinical nurse educator and neuroscience clinical nurse specialist. Dr. Day has held faculty positions at the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing; Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina; and at Washington State University College of Nursing where she was also Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Dr. Day has also consulted on many nursing education-related projects including the Robert Wood Johnson-funded project Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s National Study of Nursing Education. She is co-author of the landmark publication Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation reporting the results of the Carnegie study, and has provided faculty development workshops for schools of nursing in the US and Canada. She is certified as a Nurse Educator (CNE) by the NLN and was one of five faculty members from Schools of Nursing and Medicine selected to participate in the Josiah Macy Foundation Health Sciences Faculty Scholars Program, 2013-15. In 2019, Dr. Day was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and in the NLN Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF). In addition to academic work, Dr. Day has been a member of ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation services at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina, and at Providence Health System, Eastern Washington region.