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KATHLEEN
BOND ELECTED AACN PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON,
D.C., April 2, 1998 -- Kathleen Boyle Bond, EdD, RN, dean
and professor of Harris College of Nursing at Texas Christian
University, has been elected president-elect of the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
Dr.
Bond's two-year term began at the conclusion of the Association's
spring annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In March 2000, she
will assume the presidency to lead the programs and policy
initiatives of the organization that is the national voice
for university and four-year college programs in nursing --
the nation's largest health care profession.
Dr.
Bond has been dean at Texas Christian University since 1996.
Previously, she was dean of the colleges of nursing at the
University of New Mexico and Michigan State University, and
was founding dean of the School of Nursing at the University
of Missouri-Kansas City.
"I
am honored to have this opportunity to help craft, through
AACN's voice and vision, the focus of nursing higher education
for a health system that is redefining how and where basic
health care is delivered," Dr. Bond says. "I look
forward to working with AACN members to ensure that our schools
enter the millenium with the programming and resources necessary
to continue meeting the nation's need for innovative and expanded
nursing care."
Dr.
Bond's publications and presentations have concentrated on
women's health and maternal-child health issues, particularly
osteoporosis education for nurses and consumers, and on nursing's
role in national health care policy. Among her numerous appointments,
she served on the National Advisory Board for Osteoporosis
Education from 1984 to 1986, and was a member of the Education
Committee and editor of the Update Series of the Association
of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses.
From
1986-1991, Dr. Bond was president of the Council for Graduate
Education for Administration in Nursing. In 1997, she completed
a two-year term as chair of the Publications Committee of
nursing's honor society, Sigma Theta Tau, International.
Dr.
Bond was elected to the AACN Board of Directors in 1993. Within
the Association, she has chaired the Governmental Affairs
and Membership committees and subcommittee for the Deans Summer
Seminar, and was a member of the Task Force on the Structure
of Nursing Practice, a joint panel of AACN and the American
Organization of Nurse Executives. In 1989, Dr. Bond was an
AACN Health Policy Fellow in the office of U.S. Congressman
Richard Gephardt (D-MO). In addition, she has served as a
book reviewer for the Journal of Professional Nursing,
the official journal of AACN.
In
recent years, she also has been a curricular consultant on
nursing education to several institutions in Beijing, China,
including Peking Union Medical University, Beijing Medical
University, and the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, as well
as at Shanghai 2nd Medical University.
Dr.
Bond received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and
doctoral degree in education from the University of Alabama,
and master's degree in nursing from Case Western Reserve University.
The American Association of
Colleges of Nursing is the national voice for university and
four-year-college education programs in nursing. Representing
more than 570 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. See http://www.aacn.nche.edu.
CONTACT:
Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
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