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KATHLEEN
LONG ELECTED AACN PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2000 -- Kathleen
Ann Long, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and professor at the College of
Nursing of the University of Florida, has been elected president-elect
of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
Dr. Long's two-year
term began at the conclusion of the Association's spring annual
meeting in Washington, D.C. In March 2002, 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. Long has been
dean at the University of Florida since 1995. Previously,
she was dean and professor at the College of Nursing at Montana
State University, which she joined in 1983 as an associate
professor, and has served on the faculty and as an administrator
at Husson College/Eastern Maine Medical Center, The Johns
Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland.
"I have found AACN
to be an important asset for my own professional development,
as well as the source of proactive strategies for addressing
the nation's most significant nursing issues," Dr. Long says.
"It will be a privilege for me to contribute to the organization
in this new leadership role. With the remarkable talents of
AACN's members and staff, I believe we can turn today's higher
education and health care delivery challenges into opportunities
for the nursing profession and the people it serves."
A fellow of the American
Academy of Nursing, Dr. Long is an ANCC-certified clinical
specialist in child and adolescent psychiatric/mental health
nursing. Her clinical work, research, and publications have
focused on child and family mental health, rural health care
(including identifying rural children at risk for alcohol
abuse), health issues affecting American Indian peoples, and
interdisciplinary education and practice. Among her numerous
appointments, she has been a member of the Expert Panel on
Rural Nursing of the American Academy of Nursing, the Advisory
Board of the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, and an invited
consultant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on
the effects of academic health center changes on nursing education
and research.
In other posts, Dr.
Long has served as chair of the Board of Governors of the
Western Institute of Nursing, member of the Institute of Medicine's
Military Nursing Research Review Committee, and member of
the national advisory committee of the Nursing Information
Exchange Project of the National League for Nursing.
Currently a member
of the editorial board of the Journal of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatric Nursing, Dr. Long also has been a member of
the Board of Directors of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.
Dr. Long was elected
to the AACN Board of Directors in 1992. Among her posts within
the Association, she has served as secretary, chaired the
Membership Committee, and served on task forces that produced
Nursing Education's Agenda for the 21st Century and
the landmark Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for
Professional Nursing Practice. She also has represented
AACN on the American Medical Association's Panel of Nurse
Consultants and currently chairs AACN's Community Advisory
Board Task Force.
Dr. Long received
her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from The Catholic
University and master's degree in nursing from Wayne State
University. She received her PhD in behavioral sciences from
The Johns Hopkins 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 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. Web site:
http://www.aacn.nche.edu
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CONTACT: Robert Rosseter
(202) 463-6930, x231
rrosseter@aacn.nche.edu
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