Leadership Activities

Member - Governor's Task Force on the Nursing Shortage, State of Iowa

        Chair - Education Subcommittee

Member - National Pressure Ulcer Guideline Development Panel, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health and Human Services

Expert Consultant - National Nursing Home Improvement Collaborative: Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Expert Consultant - New Jersey Hospital Association Pressure Ulcer Collaborative, Health Research & Educational Trust of New Jersey

Consultant - Priority Expert Panel on Long-term Care for Older Adults for National Nursing Research Agenda, National Center for Nursing Research, NIH

Past President - National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel

American Academy of Nursing

Sigma Theta Tau International

Midwest Nursing Research Society

American Nurse's Association

American Association of Critical Care Nurses

American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Nursing

International Consortium on Cerebral and Psychopathological

Dysfunctions Following Cardiac Surgery

Iowa Academy of Science

ANA Council of Nurse Researchers

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Society

Wound Healing Society

Geriatric Society of America

American Geriatric Society

Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science