ANDREA LINDELL ELECTED AACN
PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15,
1996 -- Andrea R. Lindell,
DNSc, RN, dean and professor at the College of Nursing and
Health at the University of Cincinnati, has been elected
president-elect of the American Association of Colleges
of Nursing (AACN).
Dr. Lindell's two-year term began at the
conclusion of the Association's spring annual meeting in
Washington, D.C. In March 1998, she will assume the presidency
to lead the programs and policy initiatives of the organization
that is the national voice for America's baccalaureate-
and higher-degree education programs in nursing -- the
nation's largest health care profession.
Dr. Lindell has been dean at the University
of Cincinnati since 1990, and previously headed the schools
of nursing at Oakland University and the University of New
Hampshire.
Her articles, book chapters, and presentations
have focused on psychiatric nursing -- particularly suicidology
and the psychiatric complications of AIDS -- and on strategies
for managing academic careers. Most recently, Dr. Lindell's
research has examined the changes in self-concept among
institutionalized elderly patients in nursing homes and
group homes.
Dr. Lindell serves concurrently as president
of Nurses in Advanced Practice, Inc., a college-formed,
not-for-profit corporation, member of the Health Care Task
Force for U.S. Congressman Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and member
of the Cincinnati City Council's Task Force on Unlicensed
Assistive Personnel. In addition, she is former chair of
the Board of Review for Accreditation, and of the Resolutions
Committee of the Council of Baccalaureate and Higher-Degree
Nursing Education, of the National League for Nursing.
Dr. Lindell's expansion of the nursing program
at the University of Cincinnati includes establishment of
a host of major new initiatives, including the College's
doctoral track, the Institute for Nursing Research in collaboration
with University Hospital, a nurse-managed clinic providing
care to the severely mentally disabled, and graduate-degree
programs to prepare certified nurse-midwives, nurse anesthetists,
and nurse practitioners specializing in neonatal, family,
and critical care.
Dr. Lindell was elected to the AACN Board
of Directors in 1993. Within the Association, she was most
recently treasurer and chair of the Finance Committee, and
has held posts on other AACN governance panels, including
as chair of the Accreditation Task Force and as member of
the Task Force on Substance Abuse, Resolutions Committee,
and planning subcommittee for Executive Development seminars.
From 1984-1986, Dr. Lindell also was assistant editor for
legal and ethical issues of the Journal of Professional
Nursing, the official journal of AACN.
"Since its founding, AACN has been
at the pivotal center of advancing the education and research
that are at the heart of the largest health profession,"
Dr. Lindell says.
"A new century is only four years
away, but already sweeping changes are redefining the landscape
of health delivery. I look forward to contributing to AACN's
leadership that not only is crafting new and expanded roles
for nurses, but is fortifying the very infrastructure of
nursing higher education to ensure high-quality programming
and services to meet rocketing demand."
Dr. Lindell received her Bachelor of Science
degree in nursing from Villa Marie College in Erie, Pennsylvania,
and master's degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing
and doctorate in nursing science from The Catholic University
of America.
The American Association of Colleges
of Nursing is the national voice for university and four-year-college
education programs in nursing. Representing more than 580
member schools of nursing at public and private institutions
nationwide, AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy,
data collection, publications, and other programs work to
establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree
nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement
those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve
health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate
and graduate nursing education, research, and practice.
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CONTACT: Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
