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Dr.
Kathleen A. Long Elected as President of the
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Drs.
Jean Bartels, Dorothy Powell, and Roberta Olson Also Elected
to Serve on the AACN Board of Directors
WASHINGTON,
D.C., April 5, 2002 -- Kathleen A. Long, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean
of the University of Florida School of Nursing, was elected
to serve a two-year term as President of the American Association
of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Dr. Long assumed the presidency
at AACN's annual meeting held last week in Washington, D.C.
"Kathy
Long has been an outspoken advocate for baccalaureate and
higher degree nursing education for more than 20 years,"
said Dr. Carolyn A. Williams, AACN's immediate Past President
and Dean of the University of Kentucky School of Nursing.
"Dr. Long brings a dynamic mix of visionary leadership,
political savvy, intellectual strength, and high energy to
her new role as president which will serve the association
well."
Highlights
of Dr. Long's distinguished career include serving as a faculty
member, administrator, and/or consultant at Johns Hopkins
University, the University of Maryland, Husson College, and
Montana State University. She was the dean at the Montana
State University College of Nursing from 1990 to 1995, and
is currently Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing
at the Health Science Center of the University of Florida.
On the
national level, Dr. Long has served on the advisory board
to the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy and was an invited
member of the Advisory Group of Deans of Schools of Nursing
providing input to President Clinton's Task Force on National
Health Care Reform.
Dr. Long's
strong ties to AACN include service on task forces that developed
two landmark documents, The Essentials of Baccalaureate
Education for Professional Nursing Practice and Nursing
Education's Agenda for the 21st Century, and most recently
as chair of the Task Force on the Education and Regulation
of Professional Nursing Practice. She has served several terms
on AACN's Board including a term as Secretary.
Dr. Long
is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is a certified
clinical specialist in child and adolescent psychiatric/mental
health nursing. She has been elected to membership in Sigma
Theta Tau, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Delta Omega,
and is a Life Fellow in the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
Dr. Long's clinical work, research, and publications have
focused on child and family mental health, rural health, and
health issues affecting American Indian peoples.
"Preparing
a highly educated nursing workforce in the interest of improving
health care is central to the role AACN plays in the nursing
and higher education communities," explained Dr. Long.
"As AACN's President, I plan to further this mission
by working to build consensus on future directions for nursing
education, pursuing legislative support for nursing education
and research, and raising public awareness about the importance
of nurses in health care delivery."
AACN's
Board Secretary Jean E. Bartels, PhD, RN, was chosen
as AACN's new President-elect and will assume the presidency
in spring 2004. Dr. Bartels is Professor and Chair of the
School of Nursing at Georgia Southern University. She previously
held the position of Professor and Chair of Nursing at Alverno
College in Milwaukee, WI. She currently serves on the statewide
Georgia Board of Nursing Education Committee and provides
regional, national, and international consultations on accreditation
processes, community-based nursing education, outcome assessment,
performance assessments, and in other key topic areas. In
addition to her work as Board Secretary from 1999-2001, Dr.
Bartels has served AACN as chair of the Program Committee,
faculty for the Community-Based Education project funded by
the Helene Fuld Health Trust, and member of the Steering Committee
for the creation of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Joining
Drs. Long and Bartels on the Board as newly elected members
include Dorothy L. Powell, EdD, RN, FAAN, elected as
Board Secretary; and Roberta K. Olson, PhD, RN, chosen to
serve as Member-at-Large. Dr. Dorothy Powell is the Associate
Dean for Nursing at Howard University's College of Pharmacy,
Nursing and Allied Health Sciences. Dr. Powell's close association
with AACN includes service on the Board of Directors from
1997-2001; chair of the By-laws Committee; membership in the
Government Affairs, Nominating, and Finance Committees; and
AACN's liaison to the Friends of the Division of Nursing.
A respected leader within the nursing profession, Dr. Powell
currently serves on NIH's National Advisory Council on Nursing
Research, on the Board of the Southeastern Regional Education
Board, and on the Board of the Washington, DC Area Health
Education Center.
Dr.
Roberta Olson presently serves as Professor and Dean of
the College of Nursing at South Dakota State University. Over
the course of her career, she has served in the American Nurses
Association's House of Delegates; been President of state
nurses association in both Missouri and South Dakota; assumed
the role of Secretary of the Midwest Alliance in Nursing;
and served as Associate Dean at the University of Texas Health
Science Center-Houston and the University of Kansas. Dr. Olson's
active participation in AACN includes membership on the Mentor/New
Deans, Finance, and Executive Development Committees, and
service on the task forces on Distance Education and Diversity.
Board
members reelected for a second term at the spring meeting
included Member-at-Large Cynthia Flynn Capers, PhD,
RN, dean of the University of Akron College of Nursing; and
Member-at-Large Mary Mundt, PhD, RN, dean of the University
of Louisville School of Nursing.
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.
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CONTACT:
Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
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