Marsha
Howell Adams, DSN, RN, CNE
Dr. Adams received a BSN, MSN, and DSN-Nursing Administration
from the University of Alabama School of Nursing at Birmingham.
She earned a Post-Master’s Certificate in Rural Case Management
from the University of Alabama, Capstone College of Nursing.
As Director of the Undergraduate Program, Dr. Adams is responsible
for providing leadership and managing day to day activities
related to the program. In addition, she provides classroom,
on-line and clinical instruction on both the undergraduate and
graduate level. She is recognized as a Nursing Academic Fellow
by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and certified
as an on-site evaluator by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing
Education. She is presently serving a second three-year term
on the National League for Nursing Board of Governors and serves
on the Editorial Board for Nursing Education Perspectives. She
has also served as the chair for the NLN Excellence in Nursing
Education task group. She has been the recipient of the CCN
Board of Visitors Commitment to Teaching Award, the University
of Alabama National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment
to Teaching Award, the Alabama League for Nursing Lamplighter
Award and the Alabama State Nurses Association Outstanding Nurse
Educator/Academe Award. Dr. Adams has served as a rural nursing
consultant for over 25 years. Clinical research interests and
extensive publications have focused on rural women and children
and nursing education. Dr. Adams’ work with rural children
has resulted in the state-wide “Kids Check” initiative
created by Alabama’s Governor Bob Riley. Dr. Adams serves
as the co-editor and contributing author of the NLN publication
entitled, “Achieving Excellence in Nursing Education”.
Professional memberships include National League for Nursing,
Sigma Theta Tau, Alabama State Nurses Association, Alabama Rural
Health Association, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, and
the Case Management Society of America.
Jennifer
Couvillon, PhD, RN, CNE
As a National League for Nursing Certified Nurse Educator and
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Jennifer Couvillon, RN, PHD,
CNE, developed and now acts as the Program Director of Louisiana
State University Health Science Center School of Nursing (LSUHSC
SON) new Masters in Nursing Education Track Program. This experience
has provided her insight from which she shares her leadership
skills on the development, implementation and evaluation of
a Masters in Nursing Education program.
As director of the Program, she establishes and implements
technology utilization training for faculty and students and
provides the operational leadership management and supervisory
responsibility for the day-to-day educational activities and
strategic management of the program budget and curriculum plan.
She also assists course faculty in the design and development
of educational activities using technological methods.
Dr. Couvillon completed her doctoral work in 2002 and focused
on nursing faculty and their experience transitioning to teaching
via distance education methodologies. She has been funded by
her local New Orleans District Nurses Association, Sigma Theta
Tau Epsilon Nu chapter and a National League for Nursing Research
Grant as well on served on HRSA AEN grant teams and is currently
the Principal investigator of the HRSA AEN grant titled High
tech vs. High Touch through 2011.
Dr. Couvillon presents extensively in nursing and technology
conferences and is currently working on a nursing education
and technology text. Dr. Couvillon has held many leadership
positions internally at LSUHSC SON and locally in her STT, ANA
NODNA chapter and LA NLN chapter. She is well regarded as her
SON NLN ambassador and has served on the ETIMAC Committee for
NLN until 2007.
Dr. Couvillon currently teaches curriculum development, instructional
design, technology in nursing and nursing research courses at
the baccalaureate, master and doctoral level at LSUHSC SON.
Lucille
C. Gambardella, PhD,RN,CS,APRN-BC,CNE
Dr. Lucille Gambardella has been a nurse educator for
35 years and has taught in diploma, associate, baccalaureate
and master degree programs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and
Delaware. As a teaching professor, her clinical focus was in
psychiatric/mental health nursing. In 1980 Dr. Gambardella moved
into the chair role at Bloomsburg University in PA and along
with her administrative duties, taught the Leadership and Professional
Seminar. She began teaching at Wesley College in 1984 and was
appointed chair in 1994, and has held that role as well as Director
of the Graduate program since that time. Dr Gambardella is proud
to say that as a Certified Nurse Educator and a member of the
first educator group to gain certification; she is also an NLN
Ambassador for her college. Dr. Gambardella has published numerous
articles and a text workbook for the Wilson/Kneisl Psychiatric
Nursing text. In addition she has been a conference speaker
at local, national and international programs including most
recently the International Council of Nurses in Yokohama, Japan.
Her research interests include nursing education issues, depression
in women, and a study on marital discord following military
deployment. Professionally Dr. Gambardella is a member of ANA,
ISPN, APNA, NLN, Sigma Theta Tau, and the NACNS. She is also
serving a third term as the President of the Delaware Board
of Nursing and truly enjoys her work in nursing regulation.
Elizabeth
A. Gazza PhD, RN, LCCE, FACCE
Dr. Elizabeth Gazza has been involved in nursing education for
nearly 20 years. She has served as nursing faculty in practical,
baccalaureate, and graduate nursing education programs and held
administrative positions including dean of nursing and allied
health and interim vice president for academic affairs. As a
member of the National League for Nursing Task Group for the
Recruitment and Retention of Nurse Educators she contributed
to the development of the NLN Healthful Work Environment Tool
Kit© and the Mentoring of Nursing Faculty position statement.
Currently, she is a member of the Healthful Work Environment
Task Group and contributed to the development of the NLN Mentoring
Tool Kit. She has presented on nursing education topics at the
NLN Education Summit and the Faculty Leadership Conference.
Dr. Gazza has published on faculty development issues in Nurse
Educator, The Community College Enterprise, and Phi
Kappa Phi Forum. Her dissertation research was funded by
a NLN Research Grant and focused on understanding the experience
of being full-time nursing faculty. The study has been accepted
for publication in the March/April 2009 issue of the Journal
of Professional Nursing. She is currently co-investigator
for a research study focusing on the experience of being part-time
faculty in a baccalaureate nursing education program.
Frances
C. Henderson EdD, RN
Dr. Frances C. Henderson is a Clinical Professor of Medicine
at The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Deputy Director
of the Jackson Heart Study, Co-Director of Data Acquisitions
for the Study, and Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School
of Nursing at Alcorn State University in Natchez Mississippi.
Dr. Henderson received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree
from Dillard University; a Master of Science in Nursing Degree
from University of California San Francisco Medical Center;
and an EdD in Higher Education from Nova University.
Dr. Henderson spent 22 years of her nursing career (1963-1985)
in the San Francisco Bay Area in teaching, counseling, administrative
and project director positions at the College of San Mateo,
University of California, San Francisco and Ohlone College.
She has directed projects funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
of Battle Creek Michigan, the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Henderson
is co-author of the book “Managing Your Career in Nursing”
first published in 1988 with a second edition in 1994. Since
her retirement, she has served as a consultant on Nursing Education
Workforce Diversity Projects at University of Arkansas Medical
Sciences, College of Nursing; University of South Alabama; University
of North Alabama and Delta State University. Dr. Henderson is
Co-Chair of the NLN Think Tank on Expanding Diversity in the
Nurse Educator Workforce.
Dr. Henderson’s roles with the National League for Nursing
include: member of the By-Laws Committee 1995-1997; member of
the Nominating Committee 1999-2002; Chairperson, Nominating
Committee 2004-2006; and two consecutive terms (2000-2006) as
a member of the Board of Governors. Dr. Henderson further served
as a member of the Advisory Council of the National Heart Lung
and Blood Institute for a four-year term, 2002-2006. Additional
professional contributions include service on national, advisory
councils for organizations such as the National Children’s
Center for Agricultural Health and Safety; the National Advisory
Committee of the Southern Rural Access Program; and the W. K.
Kellogg Faculty Fellows Project.
Kay
Hodson Carlton
Kay Hodson Carlton is a Professor and Coordinator of Educational
Resources and Extended Education Services for the School of
Nursing at Ball State University. Her role includes the direction
of the Clinical Simulation Laboratory. From her early authorship
of one of the first computer-assisted programs in nursing to
her involvement with national information databases, on-line
education, and clinical simulations, Kay has been a leader for
over twenty years in developing and managing creative and effective
applications of educational resources and technology for the
benefit of nursing. In 1997, she was elected as a fellow to
the American Academy of Nursing and she was inducted in 2008
as a fellow into the Academy of Nursing Education for her innovative
work with technology design, development, and implementation
in nursing. During 2008, Kay served as one of the mentors in
the NLN/Johnson and Johnson Faculty Leadership and Mentoring
Program.
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN
CEO, National League for Nursing
Beverly Malone began her nursing career with a first degree
in nursing from the University of Cincinnati in 1970. She combined
further study with clinical practice, a master’s in psychiatric
nursing and she received her doctorate in clinical psychology
in 1981.
Her career has mixed policy, education, administration and
clinical practice. Dr. Malone has worked as a surgical staff
nurse, clinical nurse specialist, director of nursing, and assistant
administrator of nursing. During the 1980s she was dean of the
School of Nursing at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical
State University. In 1996 she was elected for two terms as president
of the American Nurses Association (ANA), representing 180,000
nurses in the USA. In 2000, she became deputy assistant secretary
for health within the US Department of Health and Human Services,
the highest position so far held by any nurse in the US government.
Dr. Malone was general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing
(RCN), the United Kingdom’s largest professional union
of nurses with more than 390,000 members, from June 2001 –
January 2007. Dr Malone was also a member of the Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE). She represented the RCN
at the pan-European nursing body, the European Federation of
Nurses Associations (EFN), the Commonwealth Nurses Federation,
and the International Council of Nurses with the RCN president.
In February 2007, Dr. Malone took up her appointment as chief
executive officer of the National League for Nursing
in New York.
Karen
Pardue
Ms. Pardue is associate professor and assistant director of
the Department of Nursing and Health Services Management at
the University of New England. Throughout her career, she has
taught nursing at a variety of levels, including associate,
baccalaureate, RN-to-BSN, and master's degree programs. She
co-established the curriculum for the RN-to-BSN option at the
University of New England and is the coordinator of the international
education program at the branch campus in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ms. Pardue’s scholarship is focused on creative and innovative
teaching methods in nursing education. She has published and
presented extensively on exploring the arts in nursing education.
Ms. Pardue previously served as the chairperson for the NLN’s
Task Group on Innovation in Nursing Education is currently a
Faculty Mentor for the Johnson and Johnson/NLN Foundation Faculty
Leadership Project; and is a member of the Nursing Education
Advisory Council (NEAC)
M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN
Dr. Tagliareni is a Professor and the Independence Foundation
Chair in Community Health Nursing Education at the Community
College of Philadelphia.
Dr. Tagliareni has been involved with associate degree programs
for more than 25 years. She has led a national effort to integrate
gerontology into curricula and to assist faculty to reconceptualize
student-teacher partnerships.
In 1998, Dr. Tagliareni was awarded the National League for
Nursing Mildred Montag Excellence in Leadership Award.
Dr. Tagliareni is current the NLN president-elect. She will
assume the presidency this September in Phoenix, Arizona at
the NLN Education Summit.
Diane
Whitehead, EdD, RN, ANEF
Diane Whitehead has been actively teaching and administering
associate degree, BSN and MSN programs for many years. She has
a BSN from Florida State University, an MSN from University
of Miami and a doctorate from Florida International University.
She was instrumental in developing the first fully online associate
degree nursing program in Florida. She has published in the
areas of nursing leadership and management and online nursing
education. Her textbook, Essentials of Nursing Leadership and
Management has been used in nursing programs for over a decade.
Currently Dr. Whitehead is the associate dean for nursing at
Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She
joined NSU in 2003 to begin an RN to BSN program. Five years
and 750 students later, the department has an array of programs:
entry level BSN, RN to BSN, MSN, and PhD located in several
Florida locations.
Dr. Whitehead is an active participant with the National League
for
Nursing. She serves as president for the Florida League for
Nursing, chair for the NLN task group on leadership in nursing
education, an Ambassador for NLN and a Fellow in the Academy
of Nurse
Educators. She also participated in the NLN/Johnson and Johnson
faculty leadership and mentoring program.
Dr. Whitehead was selected as the South Florida Organization
of
Nurse Executives Leader of the Year 2006, and a “Heavy
Hitter in
Healthcare 2007” for the South Florida Business Journal.
Dr. Whitehead was selected as the South Florida Organization
of
Nurse Executives Leader of the Year 2006, and a “Heavy
Hitter in
Healthcare 2007” for the South Florida Business Journal.
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Terry Valiga, EdD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Terry Valiga received both a masters and a doctoral degree
in Nursing Education from Teachers College, Columbia University
in New York. She held faculty and administrative positions in
five different universities over a 26-year period and, in 1999,
was appointed as Chief Program Officer at the National League
for Nursing. In that role, Dr. Valiga developed a number of
new initiatives, including the Centers of Excellence program,
the Academy of Nursing Education, position statements, the Hallmarks
of Excellence in Nursing Education, the Excellence in Nursing
Education Model, and several publications. In July 2008, she
joined Duke University’s School of Nursing to create and
direct their new Institute for Educational Excellence.
Dr. Valiga has presented on education topics at national and
international conferences, published widely on issues related
to nursing education, and consulted with nursing faculty groups
in the US, Canada, Japan, and China on curriculum development,
program evaluation, innovations in teaching, and the faculty
role. She also has received several prestigious awards recognizing
her sustained contributions to nursing education, including
Fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Valiga also is an expert in the area of leadership and
has co-authored a book (now in its third edition) on this complex
phenomenon.
Patricia
Young, PhD, RN
Patricia Young has a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where she studied nursing education and the lived experiences
of new teachers in nursing. She has taught at Minnesota State
University Mankato for 22 years in a variety of courses and
settings in graduate and undergraduate programs. Her current
research focuses on interpreting the experiences of students
and teachers in nursing education, particularly in regard to
implementing and evaluating Narrative Pedagogy. Tricia has served
on several National League for Nursing Committees, including
the task force to develop Nurse Educator Competencies and the
Healthful Work Environment task group, is a member of the NLN
Nurse Educator Workforce Development Advisory Council, and is
Project Director for the NLN Faculty Leadership and Mentoring
Program. Her research with new teachers contributed to task
force development of the Healthful Work Environment Tool Kit,
the position statement on Mentoring in Nursing Education, and
the Mentoring Tool Kit.
