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January 2008 • Volume 3 • Editor-in-Chief
Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN
Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville, Va.
Editorial Advisory Board
Rhonda Anderson, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FACHE
Pediatric Administrator
Regional Pediatric Service Line Administrator Banner Children’s Hospital at Banner Desert
Medical Center Mesa, Ariz.
Nancy Dunton, PhD
Research Associate Professor
School of Nursing
University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City
Michael L. Evans, PhD, RN, FACHE
Dean and Professor Barnes-Jewish College of Nursing St. Louis, Mo.
Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, APRN, BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP
President, Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc.
North Andover, Mass.
FNP, Adjunct Faculty, Family Practice Residency Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Inc. Greater Lawrence, Mass.
Rita A. Frantz, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Area Chair: Systems & Practice College of Nursing
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Lillee Gelinas, MSN, RN, FAAN
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer VHA Inc.
Irving, Tex.
Gwendylon E. Johnson, MA, RNC
Nurse Coordinator, Women’s Health Howard University Hospital Washington, DC
Norma M. Lang, PhD, RN, FRCN, FAAN
Professor and Dean Emeritus School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Wisconsin Regent Distinguished Professor and Aurora Professor of Health Care Quality and Informatics
College of Nursing University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Gail Pisarcik Lenehan, EdD, RN, FAEN, FAAN
Nurse Clinical Specialist Emergency Department Massachusetts General Hospital Boston
Judith “Ski” Lower, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN
Consultant and Lecturer Former Nurse Manager Neurocritical Care Unit Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Md.
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Courtney H. Lyder, ND, GNP, FAAN
University of Virginia Medical Center
Professor of Nursing, Internal Medicine, and Geriatrics Chairman, Department of Acute & Specialty Care University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
Anne P. Manton, PhD, APRN, BC, FAEN, FAAN
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Behavioral Health Services
Cape Cod Hospital
Hyannis, Mass.
Stephanie Mearns, MN, RN
Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services Chief Nursing Officer
California Hospital Medical Center Los Angeles, Calif.
Kathleen A. Mikos, MSN, RN
Chief Nursing Officer Ingalls Hospital Harvey, Ill.
Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Chief, Nursing Service for Research Director, Patient Safety Center of Inquiry James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital
Tampa, Fla.
Barbara Safriet, JD, LLM
Senior Dean’s Fellow Yale Law School New Haven, Conn.
Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN
Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer
Cross Country Healthcare
Executive Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer Cross Country Staffing
Boca Raton, Fla.
Roy L. Simpson, RN, C, CMAC, FNAP, FAAN
Vice President, Nursing Informatics Cerner Corp.
Kansas City, Mo.
Judy Smetzer, BSN, RN
Vice President
Institute for Safe Medication Practices Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
Patricia Sparacino, PhD, RN, FAAN
Vice Chair, Administration and Academic Coordinator Clinical Professor, Family Health Care Nursing University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco
Deborah G. Spratt, MPA, RN, CNAA, CNOR
Manager of Perioperative Services University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY
Rebecca Wheeler, MA, BSN, RN
Former President
National Student Nurses Association Atlanta, Ga.
Kathleen M. White, PhD, RN, CNAA
Associate Professor and Director for the Master’s Program
School of Nursing
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Md.
May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN
Dean, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Susan Wysocki, RNC, NP, FAANP
President and CEO
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in
Women’s Health Washington, DC
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