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NATIONAL NURSING ADVISORY BOARD

 

Rhonda Anderson

RN, DNSc(h), FAAN, FACHE Pediatric Administrator and Pediatric Service Line Administrator

Rhonda is Pediatric Administrator at Banner Children’s Hospital at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Grand Canyon University, College of Nursing. She has extensive and progressive experience in staff nursing, education, hospital and healthcare organization management roles, financial management, performance measurement and patient safety. She is certified as a Nursing Administrator Advanced, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  Rhonda has written, published, and lectured on professional nursing practice models, financial management, clinical ladders, patient classification systems, managed care structure and philosophy, patient centered care models, health care reform, quality management, patient safety, community health initiatives, and value based purchasing. She serves on 5 editorial boards of nursing.  She is a JC Commissioner (7 years) and on the JCAHO Board, Data Use Oversight Committee, Nursing Advisory Council, chair of the Ernest A. Codman Awards Evaluation Committee, and chair of the Performance Measurement Committee (7 years). She has served as a member of the American Hospital Association Quality Task Force and their Patient Safety Quality Awards Committee. She is Chair of Joint Commission International Accreditation Committee and on the JCR Board and Global Tourism Committee.

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Dr. Leah Curtin

DSc(h), RN, FAAN
Editor of The Journal of Clinical Systems Management
Editor in Chief, Journal of Clinical Systems Management

A graduate of Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing and the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Curtin earned a Masters in health planning and administration and a Masters in philosophy with a major in ethics from the Athenaeum of Ohio. A Clinical Professor of Nursing at University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Health, Curtin was editor-in-chief of Nursing Management for 20 years – and has been the senior partner in Metier Consultants for the last 15 years. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York for the impact her editorials have on the development of nursing and health care in the United States. Dr. Curtin has been a visiting scholar at Ballarat University in Victoria, Australia and at the University of Oklahoma, Brigham Young University and the University of Eastern Kentucky.

In 1998, Dr. Curtin testified in Copenhagen before Denmark’s Ministry of health on the impact restructuring in U.S. hospitals had on the safety of patient care. A distinguished lecturer for the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Dr. Curtin, is the author of 280+ editorials and 400+ articles, and eight books, including one on children’s stories of war, which was researched in the war-torn Balkans in Eastern Europe. The book, written to raise money for the care of children damaged by war, was critically praised in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

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Dr. Kathleen McCormick

PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Senior Scientist/Vice President, SAIC

Dr. McCormick is a senior practitioner, researcher, and policy executive in informatics, bioinformatics, cardiopulmonary physiology and gerontology clinical trials. A graduate of Barry University, Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. McCormick spent 13 years as a bench scientist and clinical trial researcher for the National Institutes of Health. After several years with the United States Public Health Service – where she retired at the rank of captain, Dr. McCormick joined SRA International, Inc, in 1998. There she developed the Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences Solutions program. In 2001, she received the Vision Award – only the third time given in the company’s 25 year history – for her work developing and implementing numerous programs. The author of over five books in the field of informatics and over 100 published professional journal articles, Dr. McCormick is a seasoned speaker, consultant and educator with a broad range of disciplines including information, technology, health services research, clinical trials, basic science, medicine and nursing. She is co-author of Essentials of Nursing Informatics, 4th edition.

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Dr. Nancy Valentine

PhD, DSc(h), MPH, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer. Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr, PA

Dr. Valentine is Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Main Line Health, Bryn Mawr, PA. where she serves as the nursing strategy and thought leader for the largest member organization of the Jefferson University Health System. Prior to this role she served as CIGNA HealthCare’s First Vice President, National Nursing Executive, where she provided policy and nursing community strategy development for the company’s more than 3,000 nurses.

A graduate of Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard School of Public Health and Brandeis University, Dr. Valentine has served in high-level leadership roles including Assistant Chief Medical Director for Nursing Programs, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Health Affairs and Advisor to the Undersecretary for Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., Vice President for Nursing at McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA. and Director of Nursing at Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA. She has also held numerous adjunct faculty positions and served on educational advisory boards in every city she has been employed in and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School.

Serving on numerous professional association advisory boards, and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academy of Practice, Dr. Valentine is the past president and founding member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and has served on the founding board of the American Psychiatric Nurses foundation. She served as president of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, as commissioner and treasurer of the National League for Nursing Accreditation’s Commission, as corporate committee chair of the Sigma Theta Tau Foundation and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Regis College where she serves as the first nurse on the Board of Trustees. Dr. Valentine also serves as principle of Valentine Group Health. a firm that links innovative solutions in health care to organizations dedicated to enhancing nursing and patient care services.

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Dr. Pat W. Stone

PhD, MPH, RN

Associate Professor of Nursing, Columbia University Dr. Stone's principal field of scholarship is related to the organization of nursing services in hospitals and how to best promote both patient and nurse safety efficiently. This scholarship has contributed to both the methodological innovations in the field and changes in hospital practices. Translation of research findings into health policy is imperative to Dr. Stone. To that end, she has disseminated her work in over 90 peer-reviewed publications targeting practicing staff nurses, administrators, researchers and health policy makers as appropriate. Dr. Stone has led or collaborated on numerous interdisciplinary research projects. Funding for these projects have come from multiple sources including NIH, AHRQ, RWJF, as well as other foundations. The results of past research have led Dr. Stone to extend her scholarly activities in two different but inter-related pathways.

The first is to gain better understanding of outcomes attributable to healthcare associated infections and processes that decrease the incidence of this important nursing-sensitive patient safety problem.

The second pathway is to move beyond nurse-staffing ratios and understand the impact of other important factors, namely skill and stability of the workforce as well as develop empirically driven methods to assist with staffing decisions. It is Dr. Stone's goal that this interdisciplinary work will eventually translate into useful knowledge and tools for nurse managers, hospital administrators and health policy makers to improve nurse work environments while improving quality and safety in an efficient manner.

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