Nursing Deans on Leading: Lessons for Novice and Aspiring Deans and Directors

Learn leadership skills from experienced deans!

The first resource written specifically for novice and aspiring deans and directors of nursing education, this engaging guide shares practical advice, wisdom, and insight from experienced academic leaders. These insights will help nurses who are new to academic leadership positions. Within its pages, experienced deans share their wisdom on how a new dean or director can succeed in a leadership position.

With an emphasis on acquiring critical knowledge and essential skills, this book describes the parameters of the nursing dean or director role, practical strategies for resolving day-to-day issues, everything from student success to budget and fiscal health, and how to practice self-care while constantly tackling the challenges of these roles. Seventeen academic nursing leaders from across the United States deliver fundamental guidance to help readers determine how to navigate the multifaceted opportunities and challenges of deaning and directing.

Key Features:
• Written in an accessible, engaging style for novice and aspiring academic nursing leaders
• Everyday strategies for dealing with routine issues
• Addresses the need for self-care and how to manage the stress and complexities of the leadership role
• Abundant real-world case studies and best practices
• Online resources for further study


Author: Joanne Robinson, Carole Kenner, Jana L. Pressler
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 10/10/2019
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 6.02h x 8.30w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780826134721


About the Author
Robinson, Joanne: -

Joanne P. Robinson, Ph.D., RN, CNE, FAAN, is a professor and associate dean for Research and Innovation at Thomas Jefferson University's College of Nursing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 2011 to 2017, she served as founding dean of the School of Nursing--Camden at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. There she led the growth and development of a small nursing department into a separate school with accomplished faculty and staff, pillar graduate and undergraduate programs, robust enrollment and revenue, transformative "learning abroad" courses, a scholar exchange program, a new Nursing and Science Building, and a visionary strategic plan. During her deanship, Dr. Robinson chaired New Jersey's Organization of Colleges of Nursing (2014-2016) and provided formal and informal mentorship to many new and aspiring academic nursing leaders.

As a scholar and educator, Dr. Robinson is known for her contributions to gerontological and urologic nursing. Her research on lower urinary tract symptoms in older adults has been supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research and recognized with six awards. Dr. Robinson is the (co)author of over 25 peer-reviewed publications, five book chapters, and two books. She is an experienced educator and holds a certification in Nursing Education from the National League for Nursing. She currently chairs the Nursing Education Subcommittee of the International Continence Society and has been a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing since 2011.

Dr. Robinson received a BS in nursing from William Paterson University; MS in community health nursing from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, College of Nursing--Newark; MA in social gerontology; and Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenner, Carole: -

Carole Kenner, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF, is the Carol Kuser Loser Dean/Professor of the School of Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science at the College of New Jersey. Dr. Kenner received a BS in nursing from the University of Cincinnati and her MS and PhD in nursing from Indiana University. She specialized in neonatal/perinatal nursing for her master's and obtained a minor in higher education for her doctorate. She has authored more than 100 journal articles and 25 textbooks.

Her career is dedicated to nursing education and to the health of neonates and their families, as well as educational and professional development of healthcare practices in neonatology. Her dedication includes providing a healthcare standard for educating neonatal nurses nationally and internationally. Her passion led her to begin the journal Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews, for which she served as an editor and then associate editor. She worked with the National Coalition on Health Professions Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) and the American Nurses Association to develop genetic competencies. She helped develop the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Neonatal/Pediatric modules. She served as the co-chair of the Oklahoma Attorney General's Task Force on End-of-Life/Palliative care. She also helped development program recommendations for perinatal/neonatal palliative care as part of a family-centered/developmental care project sponsored by the National Perinatal Association. She serves on the Consensus Committee of Neonatal Intensive Care Design Standards, which sets recommendations for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit designs and serves on the March of Dimes Nursing Advisory Committee. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), a fellow in the National Academies of Practice, a fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education, past president of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), and founding president of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN), the first international organization representing neonatal nursing in setting standards globally. She is the 2011 recipient of the Audrey Hepburn Award for Contributions to the Health and Welfare of Children internationally.

Pressler, Jana L.: -

Jana L. Pressler, Ph.D., RN, is a professor and assistant dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, Lincoln Division in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Pressler received a BA in nursing from Bradley University, an MS and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate at the University of Iowa, a Ph.D. in nursing from Case Western Reserve University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester via the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. She specialized in the nursing care of children for her master's and doctoral programs. She has worked in various nursing roles at children's hospitals located in seven states.

Dr. Pressler has been in higher education for over 30 years. She helped develop the neonatal nurse practitioner program at Vanderbilt University, the Ph.D. programs at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, and the DNP program at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. Her career is dedicated to neonatal nursing research and to the health of children and their families, with a focus on stabilization and resuscitation. She is presently working on research to test a dashboard for the crash cart to facilitate and support resuscitation.