GW Nursing’s group of American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellows is happy to welcome two more to its ranks. Drs. Karen Kesten and Kenya Beard are among the 2017 Fellows AAN announced this week.
Dr. Kesten is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, a certified Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, and a Certified Nurse Educator. Dr. Kesten most recently served as the Director of Faculty Initiatives at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and as the liaison for the work of the APRN Clinical Training Task Force, the AACN Competency-based Education for Doctoral Prepared APRN Work Group, the Implementation of the DNP Task Force and the Task Force on Defining the Scholarship of Academic Nursing. Dr. Kesten currently serves as Chair on the Board of Directors for the Certification Corporation for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
Dr. Beard, a Senior Fellow with the GW Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, has won the National Black Nurses Association’s Nurse Educator of the Year award and was inducted as a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine and the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education. She also serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Nursing.
The 2017 cohort of AAN Fellows will be inducted during the Academy's annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, October 5-7, 2017 in Washington, D.C.