Patricia D. Coyne earned her B.S in Nursing from Lehman College – CUNY, her MPA in Health Care from Pace University, her MS in Nursing Education from Mercy College, and is a Ph.D. candidate in nursing at Rutgers University. She has taught nursing courses at Rockland Community College and the Cochran School of Nursing. She is a contributor to McGraw-Hill's Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination.