School of Nursing

Judith A. Halstead, PhD, RN, ANEF, took office this month as the president of the National League for Nursing (NLN) at the 2011 Education Summit in Orlando, Florida. 

“I am honored to be in the position of President of the NLN,” said Halstead.“This is an exciting and challenging time for nursing and nurse educators - one that is filled with many opportunities for us to transform nursing education and seek new ways by which to educate our students and ultimately improve patient care outcomes.”

Halstead looks forward to the next two years as president in which she will implement new initiatives, as well as assists with relocating the NLN national headquarters to Washington DC. She also has several goals she wishes to achieve as president:

1. Continue to position the NLN as the premier advocate for the interests of nursing education;
2. Build a culture of engagement that reaches out to the grass root levels of membership to ensure representation of all nurse educators and nursing programs;
3. Promote evidence-based nursing education; and
4. Foster the leadership development of faculty to ensure a strong nurse educator workforce.

“I am most excited about being able to lead the organization during a time when the value of a strong and vital nurse educator workforce is being recognized by many and there is great interest in redesigning our models of nursing education,” said Halstead.

The Indiana University School of Nursing is one of the largest nursing schools in the nation with programs ranging from the Bachelors in Nursing and eight tracks in the Master’s program to the PhD and DNP. The school was recently ranked #9 for National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate programs 15th in the nation. For more information on the IU School of Nursing, please visit http://nursing.iupui.edu.

Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education, offering faculty development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its 35,000 individual and 1,200 institutional members.