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Beverly Malone, president and CEO of the National League for Nursing, will speak Nov. 4 in the Fred Smith Auditorium of the UAMS Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
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UAMS to Host Nov. 4 Lecture on Nursing Leadership
| The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing will host a Nov. 4 lecture featuring Beverly Malone, Ph.D., RN, president and CEO of the National League for Nursing.
Malone will deliver a lecture titled, “Leadership: The Power of Caring.”
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 3 to 4:15 p.m. in the Fred Smith Auditorium on the 12th floor of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute on the Little Rock campus. A reception will follow.
Throughout her career, Malone has worked to advance the nursing profession in the areas of policy, education, administration and clinical practice. She has served as a member of the Minority Health Federal Advisory Committee, as deputy assistant secretary for health during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom. She has led the National League for Nursing since 2007.
Malone contributed to a groundbreaking report titled, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” which was published in 2011 by the nonprofit Institute of Medicine, now known as the National Academy of Medicine. The report suggested making changes in nurses’ responsibilities and education to address a growing demand for health care after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Malone has received more than 20 honorary degrees and numerous other accolades for her work. Earlier this year, the American Nurses Association honored her with its Hall of Fame Award in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the nursing profession.
The UAMS event is part of the College of Nursing’s Claudia Beverly Lectureship in Nursing Leadership, which brings in national leaders to share their efforts to advocate for excellence in nursing education, practice and research. Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., RN, is a professor emerita at UAMS and a former director of the university’s Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,485 students, 915 medical residents and fellows, and seven dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###