Shannon A. Finley, M.S.N., R.N.
Clinical Instructor, Department of Nursing Education 
College of Nursing

Shannon Finley, MSN, RN, began working with nursing students in 1999 as a Clinical Instructor at Henderson State University. Almost immediately, she decided that her passion for nursing science was enhanced by her love of teaching and, in 2006, she joined the UAMS College of Nursing faculty. She teaches in the undergraduate nursing program, is faculty advisor for a group of RN-to-BSN students and recently was appointed to the Board of Directors of Senior Citizens Activities Today, Inc., a United Way Agency.

Ms. Finley has assumed a number of leadership roles in the College, including serving on the Standardized Testing Task Force, Admission and Progression Committee, Leadership Council, Social Affairs Committee, Baccalaureate Council and Faculty Assembly. She has served as chair of the College’s Nursing Education Department, UAMS Nurse Educator Conference Planning Committee and most recently on the College of Nursing’s Dean Search Committee.

Her career includes service to the nursing profession and endless hours of health-related community volunteerism. Finley has served many roles within the Arkansas Nurses Association (ARNA) and co-chaired of its communications task force; a member of the ARNA District 12 Continuing Education Committee, ARNA Strategic Planning Committee and ARNA Convention Planning Committee; and is a continuing education review panelist.

In May 2009, she was one of only two representatives from Arkansas at the American Nurses Association Constituent Assembly in Washington D.C. She has been an American Red Cross volunteer disaster nurse since 2007 and was recently named co-recipient of the Sue Hassmiller American Red Cross Nursing Grant, which directly supports disaster nursing curriculum through the American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas Chapter. She is a community sponsor for the Rapid Response Team at Poyen High School, a certified first responder for Grant County, member of the Grant County Hometown Health Coalition and a volunteer for numerous community events in Pulaski, Hot Spring, Saline and Grant Counties.

Ms. Finley earned her MSN degree from the University of Central Arkansas and BSN degree from Henderson State University.