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American Academy Of Nursing
The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) is a professional organization that generates, synthesizes, and disseminates nursing knowledge to contribute to health policy and practice for the benefit of the public and the nursing profession. Founded in 1973, the organization is an independent affiliate of the American Nurses Association (ANA). The organization publishes a bimonthly journal known as '' Nursing Outlook''. Members of the organization are invited on the basis of leadership and accomplishments and designated as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). This status should not be confused with the FAAN status granted by the American Academy of Neurology. Ninety percent of the Fellows are doctorally prepared; the others hold a master's degree and bachelor's degree. As of 2014, there are approximately 2300 members. The academy's highest honor is its Living Legend designation. Nominees for Living Legend status must have held the FAAN designation for at least 15 years. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Sullivan-Marx
Eileen Sullivan-Marx is Dean of the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, the Erline P. McGriff, Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing (since 2012) and president of the American Academy of Nursing since October 2019 (President-elect from 2017 until 2019). Education Sullivan-Marx earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, BSN in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania, and an Master of Science, MS (1980) from the University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Rochester School of Nursing as a family health nurse practitioner and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1995. Career Sullivan-Marx was the associate dean for practice & community affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For eleven years, she was the American Nurses Association representative (the first nurse to do so) to the American Medical Association’s Resource Based Relative Value Update Committee. Awards *International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernice Ferguson
Vernice Doris Ferguson (June 13, 1928 - December 8, 2012) was an American nurse and healthcare executive. She was the nursing department head at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center for several years, then served as a nurse executive with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for twelve years. Ferguson held faculty appointments at several American universities. She was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing, was the second American named an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom and received several honorary doctorates. Biography Early life and career Vernice Ferguson was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on June 13, 1928. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where her father was a minister and her mother was a teacher. Ferguson volunteered at a hospital in high school. She taught junior high school science in Baltimore before she became a nurse. She received an undergraduate degree in nursing from New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbie Berkowitz
Bobbie Berkowitz is an American professor of nursing and dean emeritus of the School of Nursing at Columbia University. She is best known for her contributions improving public health nursing and health systems with a focus on health disparity. Berkowitz earned her BS (1972) in nursing and her MS (1981) in nursing at University of Washington, and she earned her doctorate in 1990 from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Columbia University as Senior Vice President and Dean of Nursing in 2010, Berkowitz was a professor at University of Washington and Deputy Secretary of the Washington State Department of Health. At Columbia University, Berkowitz was instrumental in the creation of a new facility to house the School of Nursing, that included the signature "Building the Future Gala" in honor of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the School. As part of her efforts to strengthen healthcare systems, Berkowitz spoke against recommendations by the American Academy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Disch
Joanne Disch is an American professor ad honorem of nursing at University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She is best known for her contributions improving patient safety, health administration, and nurse-physician relationships. As an advocate for patient safety, Disch has testified before Congress sharing both large-scale data and compelling case studies. Education Disch earned her BS in nursing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1968, in 1976, she earned an MS in nursing at University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her doctorate in 1985 from University of Michigan. Career She started her career as a staff nurse in cardiovascular intensive care and she has served as a chief nurse executive in two major medical centers. She has co-authored the award-winning text "Person and Family Centered Care". Disch was named as the Katherine R. and C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership in 2000 at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. In 2000–2012, Disch was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Burnes Bolton
Linda Burnes Bolton is an American nurse and healthcare administrator. She is the vice president and chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Organization of Nurse Executives and the National Black Nurses Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Biography Burnes Bolton grew up in Tucson and became interested in nursing at the age of seven, having suffered from severe asthma and requiring frequent hospitalizations. She earned an undergraduate nursing degree from Arizona State University. She completed three graduate degrees at UCLA - master's degrees in nursing and public health and a doctorate in public health. She is the Vice President for Nursing, Chief Nursing Officer, and Director of Nursing Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Burnes Bolton is a past president of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nola Pender
Nola J. Pender (born August 16, 1941) is a nursing theorist, author, and academic. She is a professor emerita of nursing at the University of Michigan. She created thHealth Promotion Model She has been designated a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing. Biography Nola J. Pender, PhD, RN, FAAN earned her BS in 1964 and her MA in 1965 from Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. She received a PhD. from Northwestern University of Evanston, IL in 1969. She was a nurse educator for over 40 years. During her doctoral studies, Pender became interested in health promotion. She said that she was influenced by a doctoral advisor named James Hall, who studied how people's thoughts shape their motivations and behaviors. In 1982, Pender published heHealth Promotion Model She has also written a textbook, ''Health Promotion in Nursing Practice''; several editions of the book have been published. Her publications include eight textbooks and 50 scholarly writings. She married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Fugate Woods
Nancy Fugate Woods is emerita professor in Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics at the University of Washington. She previously served as the dean of the University of Washington's nursing program and as the president of the American Academy of Nursing. Education and honorary degrees Woods graduated with a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, an M.N. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has received honorary doctorates from three institutions: the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Haifa, and Chiang Mai University. Work Woods has researched issues relating to women's health since the 1970s. Her research has shed light on menstrual cycle symptoms and has given new insight into the role personal factors play in understanding menstrual symptoms. Woods also improved the understanding of the transition to menopause. Her research is credited with having "led the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhetaugh Graves Dumas
Rhetaugh Etheldra Graves Dumas (1928–2007) was an American nurse, professor, and health administrator. Dumas was the first Black woman to serve as a dean at the University of Michigan. She served as the dean of the University of Michigan Nursing School. She also served as deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health, becoming the first nurse, female, or African-American to hold that position. She is said to have been the first nurse to use the scientific method to conduct experiments that evaluated nursing practices. Dumas died on July 22, 2007, of ovarian cancer. Early life and education Rhetaugh Etheldra Graves was born in Natchez, Mississippi. Dumas' mother had wanted to become a nurse, but no local nursing schools admitted African-American students at the time and her family could not afford to send her to college further away. When Dumas spoke at the Columbia University 2003 commencement for health sciences graduates, she said "From infancy, I was told that wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Aiken
Linda H. Aiken, (born July 29, 1943) is an American nurse and researcher who is currently the Director for the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She also is the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing Science and a professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Early life and education Early life Aiken grew up in Gainesville, Florida, a college town which her family life was centered around the activities at the University of Florida. Both of her parents attended the College of William & Mary. Her role mentor was Dorothy Smith, Dean of the University of Florida's School of Nursing. Education Aiken received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing cum laude at the University of Florida in 1964. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Nursing in thoracic surgery in 1966. She initially intended to be a clinician and worked at Shands Teaching Hospital for a few years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland and Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN is the current president. The ANA states nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. History Initial organizational plans were made for the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States of America on September 2, 1896 at Manhattan Beach Hotel near New York City. On February 11–12, 1897 those plans were ratified in Baltimore, Maryland at a meeting that coincided with the annual conference of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (19 April 1916 – 20 February 2008) was an educator and author in the field of nursing. Known for breaking down racial barriers, she was the first black nurse to serve as a voting member on the board of a state nursing association. She was later president of the American Academy of Nursing and edited the journal ''Nursing Research''. Early life She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, received a diploma from the Lincoln School for Nurses, bachelor's degree from West Virginia State College, master's degree from Syracuse University, and doctor of public administration degree from New York University. Career After receiving her bachelor's degree from West Virginia State College, Carnegie took a job in a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She became a clinical instructor at St. Philip Hospital School of Nursing. While working at St. Philip, Carnegie was exposed to a different social system in the nursing world in the south. Carnegie joined the Florida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Faye Glenn Abdellah (March 13, 1919 – February 24, 2017) was an American pioneer in nursing research. Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. Preceding her appointment, she served in active duty during the Korean War, where she earned a distinguished ranking equivalent to a Navy Rear Admiral, making her the highest ranked woman and nurse in the Federal Nursing Services at the time. In addition to these achievements, Abdellah led the formation of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the NIH, and was the founder and first dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). A few of Abdellah's more passionate interests in public health included the importance of long-term care planning for elderly patients; the need to strengthen nursing school infrastructure; and the necessity of patient-centered approaches in nursing. In 2000 Abdellah was inducted into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
