The Board of Directors for the Organisation for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) has announced the appointment of Dr. Anna Valdez as Editor in Chief of the association’s official publication Teaching and Learning in Nursing (TELN).
Dr. Valdez has over 25 years of experience in clinical practice and nursing education. She has taught nursing at all levels and in a variety of settings, and served in leadership positions that include Associate Dean of Nursing at Santa Rosa Junior College and past President of the California Organisation of Associate Degree Nursing - North. Dr. Valdez has served on numerous doctoral student dissertation committees and mentors both DNP and Ph.D. students.
She is currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow Mentor through the Center for Faculty Excellence at Walden University. Dr. Valdez is passionate about emergency nursing, social and environmental justice, health equity, academic progression in nursing, and evidence-based nursing education strategies. She is nationally certified in emergency nursing, flight nursing, and nursing education. Her current research interests focus primarily on emergency nursing, social determinants of health, health disparities, and nursing education. Dr. Valdez has presented at several conferences and served on a variety of health-related advisory boards. She has published over 20 peer reviewed articles and contributed as an author in two current emergency nursing books.
Dr. Valdez has served as an Associate Editor, Section Editor and member of the Executive Editorial Board for the Journal of Emergency Nursing. In 2015, she was inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Emergency Nursing. Dr. Valdez was inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Associate Degree in Nursing in 2018.
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