American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Nursing
About the Academy
The Academy serves the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy through organizational excellence and effective nursing leadership. The Academy and its more than 2,900 members, known as Fellows, create and execute evidence-based and policy-related initiatives to advance health care.Academy Fellows are nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice, and research. Fellows include association executives; university presidents, chancellors, and deans; state and federal political appointees; hospital chief executives and vice presidents for nursing; nurse consultants; researchers; and entrepreneurs.
Fellows have been recognized for their extraordinary nursing careers and are among the nation's most highly-educated citizens: more than 90% hold doctoral degrees and the rest have completed masters programs. Invitation to the fellowship represents more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing profession. Academy Fellows also have a responsibility to contribute their time and energies to the Academy and to engage with other health leaders outside the Academy in transforming health systems by
- Enhancing the quality of health and nursing care,
- Promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum,
- Reducing health disparities and inequalities,
- Shaping healthy behaviors and environments,
- Integrating mental and physical health, and
- Strengthening the nursing and health delivery system, nationally and internationally.
The Academy's annual policy conference, held each October/November, offers Fellows, stakeholders, and the public an opportunity to share ideas and help develop new strategies for nurses to drive the transformation of health care. Meetings during the conference also create opportunities for emerging nurse leaders to learn more about the Academy and its work, and to exchange ideas.
Nursing Outlook, a bi-monthly journal, provides innovative ideas for nursing leaders through peer-reviewed articles and timely reports. Each issue examines current issues and trends in nursing practice, education and research, offering progressive solutions to the challenges facing the profession. The journal provides nursing educators, policy makers, administrators and practitioners with practical advice, new teaching methods and recruiting techniques, curriculum and health policy developments, and information on proposals that will affect the profession. Nursing Outlook is included in MEDLINE, CINAHL, and the Journal Citation Reports Social Science Edition.
History of the Academy
The sole corporate member of the American Academy of Nursing is the American Nurses Association (ANA). First approved by the 1964–66 ANA House of Delegates, the American Nurses Association by-laws were amended to call for an Academy of Nursing for the advancement of knowledge, education, and nursing practice. On April 24, 1973, thirty-six charter fellows held their first meeting. Then, fellows were elected to the governing council, and Rheba de Tornyay was elected as the inaugural president. Operating objectives included- Advance new concepts in nursing and health;
- Identify and explore issues in health, in the professions, and in society as they affect and are affected by nurses and nursing;
- Examine the dynamics within nursing, the interrelationships among the segments within nursing, and examine the interaction among nurses as all these affect the development of the nursing profession; and
- Identify and propose resolutions to issues and problems confronting nursing and health, including alternative plans for implementation.
In 2006, the Academy established a Washington, DC, office in keeping with its strategic goals and recognizing the pivotal role of public policy in reforming American health. Academy staff identifies key policy issues in which the Academy can mobilize its fellows, along with allied individuals and organizations, to support the Academy's policy agenda and affect change. In addition, the staff oversees outreach to lawmakers, the White House and relevant federal agencies, and to the media and other key audiences as the Academy strive to assure that nurses and their frontline knowledge are integrated into the quest for a system that delivers high-quality, affordable health care to all Americans.
Reflecting its growth and focus, the Academy in 2007, consolidated the operational office and policy office into a single headquarters in Washington, DC.
Academy Resources
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement
- 2021 - 2024 Strategic Plan
- 2020 Annual Report
- Community of Experts
- The Rheba de Tornyay Development Fund
Transforming America’s Health System Through Nursing Solutions
The Edge Runners initiative recognizes evidence-based nurse-designed models of care and interventions that impact cost, improve healthcare quality, and enhance consumer satisfaction. Through its Edge Runners program, the Academy recognizes the nursing profession’s contributions to new, innovative ideas the transform the health system. The stories that accompany these incredible designs underscore the leadership, ingenuity, and determination of nurses. Edge Runners represent the powerful connection nurses have to the healthcare system, the public, and society as they mark the essence of the profession – science and compassion.
Edge Runner Spotlight
María de los Ángeles Ortega (formerly Ordóñez)
DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, CDP, FAANP, FAAN
A Caring Science Model of Specialized Dementia Care for Transforming Practice and Advancing Health Equity
The Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center (MWC) model embraces a transformative, holistic model of specialized dementia care and supportive services informed by nursing theories, perspectives, and caring science. Caring is a complex and multi-dimensional concept. This nurse-led program addresses the complex needs of persons with or at risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and their families, guided by what matters most to each person. This model is critical in advancing the health of persons living with ADRD as well as their family caregivers while improving health equity for the community and reducing costs of care. Read more.
Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology
The Expert Panel on Informatics and Technology gathers health policy data and information advises and represents the Academy on issues related to: health information management, implementation of informatics and technology through EHRs and PHRs (Electronic and Personal Health Records), HIPAA, patient safety initiatives, consumer and personal health, workforce issues and training, bioterrorism and bio surveillance, evidence-based practice, clinical decision support and other areas of concern related to the use of informatics and technology in nursing education, practice and research.
Inaugural Year: 2002
Chair:
Jane M. Carrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAMIA
Associate Professor, College of Nursing
Dorothy M. Smith Endowed Chair
Director Florida Blue Center For Health Care Quality
Department Chair, Family, Community, Health Systems Science
University of Florida
Vice Chair:
Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor
University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Mari F. Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN
Board Liaison: Ching-Min Chen
Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling
Previous Chairs: Rosemary Kennedy (2020-2022), Mollie Cummins (2019-2020), Susan McBride (2019), Ellen Harper (2018-2019), Gail M. Keenan (2017-2018), Jane Englebright (2016-2017), Michelle Troseth (2015-2016), Thomas Clancy (2014-2015), Lilee Gelinas (2013-2014), Kathyrn Bowles (2012-2013), Gail Latimer (2012), Bonnie Wesorick (2011), Patricia Hinton Walker (2008-2009), Diane S. Pravikoff (2005), Kathleen Malloch (2005), Ida Androwich (2002), Virginia Saba (2002)
Summary
The mission of this panel is to be on the cutting edge of informatics and technology in order to influence national priorities such as ‘meaningful use’ in the context of health care reform. The investment of ARRA funds in informatics and technology has increased the impact and involvement of the informatics expert panel members in national leadership, policy, practice, education and research agendas. Members of this panel sit at key policy tables at the national level and have been nominated to represent the Academy in both legislative and regulatory arenas. The panel also enhances the use and advances the mission of other expert panels where increasingly informatics and technology are relevant. Many members of this Expert Panel are connected to multiple inter-professional organizations impacting technology and informatics and bring diverse expertise back to the Academy. The panel educates Academy members and leadership about the relationship of informatics and technology to topics such as: patient safety, quality care monitoring, workforce development, HIPAA, healthcare management, implementation of informatics and technology through EHRs and PHRs (Electronic and Personal Health Records), biosurviellance and bioterrorism, consumer and personal health, clinical decision support and evidence-based practice.
Publications:
Policy Dialogue: Public Health Preparedness and IT: Lessons from the Field (Hosted in August 2021)
Hosted by the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel in Collaboration with the Expert Panels on Environmental and Public Health; Health Equity; and Building Health Care System Excellence, this dialogue featured a discussion on addressing global infectious disease challenges with thought leaders on health informatics, technology, and global public health. These experts summarized the lessons learned in response to COVID-19 pandemic so far and proposals to improve Health IT infrastructure and reporting so that public health and infectious disease responses can be more efficient.
- Manuscript: American Academy of Nursing on Policy Social Determinants of Health: Data Standardization in Electronic Health Records (May 2022)
- Policy Brief: Improve nurses’ well-being and joy in work: Implement true interprofessional teams and address electronic health record usability issues (November-December 2019)
- Policy Brief: Strengthen federal and local policies to advance precision health implementation and nurses’ impact on healthcare quality and safety (July-August 2018)
Academy Board of Directors
Kenneth R. White - President
PhD, AGACNP, ACHPN, FACHE, FAAN
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Linda D. Scott - President Elect
PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FNAP, FAAN
University of Wisconsin Madison
Karen Drenkard - Secretary
PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
AARP
Kathleen Chavanu Gorman - Treasurer
MSN, RN, FAAN
Children's National Health System, DC
Board Members
Angela Amar
PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Versie Johnson-Mallard
PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, FAANP
Kent State University
Ching-Min Chen
DNS, RN, FAAN
Taiwan Nurses Association
Margaret P. Moss
PhD, JD, RN, FAAN
University of British Columbia
Rebecca M. Patton
DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN
Case Western Reserve University
Nancy S. Redeker
PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
University of Connecticut
Chief Executive Officer
Suzanne Miyamoto - CEO
PhD, RN, FAAN
American Academy of Nursing
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