Joan Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), a top-10 nationally ranked college of nursing. She is currently President of the American Academy of Nursing, a 1,600-member, peer-elected group of top nursing leaders that exists as an entity of the American Nurses Association, and she has just completed four years as a m...

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