Advocating--Positioning--and Educating New Jersey RNs Brought to you by NJSNA’s Dues-Paying Members. JOIN US TODAY! The Official Publication of the New Jersey State Nurses Association/Institute for Nursing Volume 50 • Number 2 Quarterly publication direct mailed to approximately 141,000 RNs and LPNs in New Jersey April 2020 Inside... American Academy of Nursing Inducts Six NJ Nurse Leaders The American Academy of Nursing honored 231 model empowering nurses to influence allocation highly distinguished nurse leaders at a ceremony of resources in NJ hospitals where Nurse Workforce during its annual policy conference in Washington, Environment Staffing Councils are implemented in DC, on October 26, 2019. Six New Jersey nurses 40% of the hospitals. An expert on state and federal were inducted as American Academy of Nursing regulatory policies governing nursing standards of Fellows: Sherry Greenberg, Lauran Hardin, Mary practice, she is a NJ Department of Health Medicinal American Association of Indian Nurses host Johansen, Jeffrey Kwong, Nancy Pontes, and Marijuana Preview Panel member. She received Clinical Excellence Conference and Launches Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins. a BSN and PhD at Rutgers University, and MA at Since 1973, the American Academy of Nursing Teachers College, Columbia University. Nursing Now Campaign has honored nurses' groundbreaking contributions Jeffrey Kwong, D N P, Page 7 locally and globally. The Academy aims to transform MPH, ANP-BC, FAAN, Rutgers public policy through nursing knowledge. Karen Cox, University, School of Nursing PhD, RN, FACHE, FAAN, Academy President stated, Professor, is the Association of "Academy fellows have broken barriers, shattered glass Nurses in AIDS Care President. ceilings, and moved mountains to ensure better health Kwong created health care and wellness for all." New Jersey inductees are as follows: delivery systems for persons Sherry A. Greenberg, PhD, living with HIV, expanded safety RN, GNP-BC, FAAN, Seton Hall net programs for the uninsured University, College of Nursing, and underinsured, and led HIV Associate Professor, is an Institute interventions that have served for Health Care Improvement nurse as global fame works for ending the HIV epidemic. practitioner faculty consultant. He developed a nationally awarded cancer screening She is a national expert on program for HIV patients in Colorado, and created First New Jersey Nurse sworn in as gerontological nursing education the first nurse-led care coordination program for and inter-professional practice, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults. Commissioner of Health and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Kwong was awarded a BA degree at University of Page 13 Institute for Geriatric Nursing's California, Berkeley, MS at University of California, Series, "Try This," that promotes evidence based San Francisco, MPH at University of California, Los practices. Greenberg's research has focused on fear Angeles, and DNP at University of Colorado. of falling among older adults, and the relationship with Nancy M.H. Pontes, PhD, neighborhood-built environment. She is Gerontological RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is a Rutgers Advanced Practice Nurses Association Board of University, School of Nursing Index Directors President-Elect and fellow of New York (Camden), Assistant Professor. Academy of Medicine. She was awarded a BSN degree, Pontes' work represents Latina Membership Application ............................. 2 MSN, and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. roots, multicultural experiences, CEO Report ...................................... 3 Lauran L. Hardin, MSN, and clinical leadership skills that President’s Report ................................. 3 RN-BC, CNL, FAAN, Camden enabled initiatives with a global Region News ..................................... 4 Coalition's National Center for impact. Through a collaborative Healthy Nurse Healthy New Jersey ..................... 6 Complex Health and Social Needs partnership, she expanded American Association of Indian Nurses host Clinical Excellence Senior Advisor is an American learning abroad courses and Conference and Launches Nursing Now Campaign ....... 7 Academy of Nursing Edge Runner. implemented a Spanish for Health Professionals IFN Report ....................................... 8 An innovator and pioneer, Hardin Certificate program to address the communication The Administrative Supervisor Role ..................... 9 Advisory Board Set for Hackensack Meridian Health developed an award winning problem that has lead to health care disparities. Graduate Nurse Practitioner Residency ............... 10 nurse-led Complex Care Center Pontes' research focuses on victimization and social New Jersey State School Nurses Association model that reduces cost and determinants that have an effect on mental health, Courageous Leadership ........................... 11 improves outcomes for diverse drug use, and weapon possession. She received a Nursing Workforce News from the New Jersey vulnerable populations. She has partnered with state BS degree at Pensacola Christian College, MS at the Collaborating Center for Nursing .................... 12 governments, health care systems, communities, and University of Florida, and PhD at Columbia University. First New Jersey Nurse Sworn in as Commissioner of Health ... 13 national associations to adapt new interventions. Her Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, NJSNA Election Results ............................. 14 publications have been incorporated into the Institute PhD, RN, FAAN, Rutgers The Dangers of E-Cigarettes in the Adolescent Population ... 14 for Healthcare Improvement's Better Care Playbook. University, School of Nursing, Hardin was awarded a BSN degree at the Hope Associate Professor and Assistant Calvin School of Nursing, and MSN at the University Dean, is Director of the Center of Detroit Mercy. AACN honored her with the for Health Services Research CNL Vanguard award. and Policy. Thomas-Hawkins Non-Profit Org. Mary L. Johansen, transformed nephrology nursing U.S. Postage Paid PhD, RN, NE-BC, FAAN, practice nationally through Princeton, MN Permit No. 14 is a Rutgers University, research that advanced an current resident or School of Nursing, Clinical understanding of the impact of Associate Professor. Her work environment on the outcomes of patient care program of research in out patient dialysis centers. Seminal investigations has focused on work that she conducted led to federal policy change environment, nursing requiring CMS Dialysis Provider Conditions for practice and patient care Coverage Staffing Regulations to mandate only outcomes in collaboration Registered Nurse supervision in US dialysis centers. with the NJ Board of Thomas-Hawkins was awarded a BSN degree at Nursing and Organization of Nurses Leaders Thomas Jefferson University, and a MSN and PhD at NJ. Johansen co-led an innovative practice University of Pennsylvania. 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