NLN Presents President’s Award to Two Distinguished Faculty at MGH Institute of Health Professions
NLN Presents President’s Award to Two Distinguished Faculty at MGH Institute of Health Professions
Honorees Include Former NLN President & Community Health Advocate M. Elaine Tagliareni & Scholar in Health Care Simulation Suzan Kardong-Edgren
Washington, DC — The National League for Nursing will honor two prominent nurse educators, both of whom are associated with the prestigious MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, as winners of the 2023 NLN President’s Award. This high honor is reserved for outstanding leaders in nursing education whose lifetime career achievements deserve widespread praise and acclaim.
M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN, professor and former dean of the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions, and Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN, associate professor at MGH Institute, an internationally known speaker and scholar of simulation in health care, will be celebrated at the Honors Convocation at National Harbor near Washington, DC, during the 2023 NLN Education Summit.
“It is hard to overstate their contributions to nursing, nursing education, and the public health, reflected in their decades of leadership in education, scholarship, and advocacy,” said NLN Chair Kathleen Poindexter, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, assistant dean of undergraduate programs at Michigan State University in Lansing.
“I have had the privilege to work with both of this year’s honorees and value them as my esteemed colleagues who have dedicated so much of their talents, time, and wisdom to the National League for Nursing, among their many professional commitments,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FANN. “Their creativity, professional brilliance and dedication to nursing education excellence has inspired me personally, along with generations of their students and colleagues, to help us all strive for transformative excellence to advance the practice of nursing and public health.”
Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN
A renowned leader in the specialized field of simulation in health care, Suzan (Suzie) Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN, ANEF, CHSE, FSSH, FAAN, was a consultant to the landmark National Council of State Boards of Nursing National Simulation Study, which determined that as much as 50 percent of traditional clinical preparation could be effectively transmitted through high quality simulation instruction.
In 2010, she was chosen to deliver the Debra L. Spunt Lecture at the NLN Education Summit, a showcase for leading simulation scholars to present their latest evidence-based findings and perspective to a broad audience of peer educators. The Society for Simulation in Healthcare also awarded her one of its coveted speaking opportunities: the Michael Gordon Lectureship in Simulation.
Dr. Edgren has more than 140 publications to her credit and is in high demand on the international speaking circuit in simulation education. She served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Clinical Simulation in Nursing, for 10 years, and is currently editor-in-chief of two new interactive online review guides for candidates seeking certification in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
Dr. Edgren served as chair of the Research Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and as vice president of research and president of the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation in Nursing (INACSL). She is a fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare; the NLN Academy of Nursing Education; and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Edgren is a senior fellow at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston and an associate professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, also in Boston.
M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN
M. Elaine Tagliareni, EdD, RN, CNE, FAAN, served as president of the National League for Nursing, as the chair’s position was then called, from 2007-2009, and following that, joined the League’s senior management team as chief program officer through 2017.
Today a professor at the School of Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, earlier in her career Dr. Tagliareni spent more than 25 years as a professor of nursing and Independence Foundation Chair in Community Health Nursing at the Community College of Philadelphia. With her long history of organizational leadership and grant funded initiatives, she has worked through national channels to support models that foster academic progression of nursing graduates across the spectrum of higher education and provide patient-centric care for older adults and their caregivers.
During her time with the National League for Nursing, she pioneered the development and dissemination of the Advancing Care Excellence (ACE) professional development resources that helped nurture an important collaboration between the League and the Independence Foundation—and subsequent funding by The Hartford Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, and Laerdal Medical—which resulted in the adoption of the ACE curriculum case studies and teaching strategies by nursing programs nationally and across the globe. The program has grown into one of the League’s signature initiatives to provide culturally humble, equitable, and accessible care to a range of vulnerable population sectors.
Her devoted leadership of the National League for Nursing Archives Project, in collaboration with the Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, preserves the League’s rich history in an archival repository for scholarly historical research. This initiative reflects Dr. Tagliareni’s dedication and commitment to the League and to nursing worldwide.
In addition to receiving the President’s Award during the Summit, Dr. Tagliareni will be inducted into the 2023 class of fellows in the NLN Academy of Nursing Education, which was established in 2007, while she was president-elect of the NLN.
For more information, visit NLN.org.
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About the National League for Nursing
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 professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,000 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.