NLN CEO Named Honorary Member by National Student Nurses
Association, Organization's Highest Honor

Award Bestowed at NSNA's 58th Annual Spring Convention

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New York, NY — July 22, 2010 — Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, the CEO of the National League for Nursing, has been named "Honorary Member" by the National Student Nurses Association. This honor, the NSNA's highest, was announced at the Opening Ceremony of the organization's 58th Annual Convention which took place in Orlando, Florida in April.

Honorary membership is a mark of distinction awarded by the NSNA House of Delegates, upon recommendation by the board of directors, to individuals who have rendered distinguished service or valuable assistance to the NSNA. Dr. Malone's ongoing support of the nursing student organization has earned her the deep respect and admiration of NSNA members, student leaders, faculty, and the nursing community.

"This is such a special honor, coming as it does from future leaders in nursing," said Dr. Malone. "I am especially gratified to be recognized by my student colleagues and thrilled to be considered a role model."

Before joining the NLN in 2007, Dr. Malone spent six years as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in London, the world's largest unionized professional association for nursing. She sits on a number of advisory boards and committees and is internationally renowned as a thought leader and scholar.

A past president of the American Nurses Association, Dr. Malone's clinical career encompassed experience as a surgical staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, director of nursing, and assistant administrator of nursing. She served as dean and professor of the School of Nursing at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Dr. Malone also served as deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration; is on the board of directors of the National Patient Safety Partnership; and has been in Ebony magazine's list of the 100 most influential African-Americans.

"We are so proud of Bev's accomplishments and so cognizant of her distinctive service to nursing, that this latest honor comes as no surprise. It is indeed a well deserved honor and especially so because it comes from nursing students," said NLN president Cathleen Shultz, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN.

Reporters/Editors: For interview opportunities, please call Karen R. Klestzick, NLN chief communications officer, at 212-812-0376 or email kklestzick@nln.org.

Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers faculty development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its 32,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members who represent all types of nursing education programs.

NSNA is a membership organization representing approximately 53,000 students in associate degree, diploma, baccalaureate, generic master's and generic doctoral program, preparing students for registered nurse licensure, as well as RNs in BSN completion programs.

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