Editor
	Joyce Newman Giger, Ed.D., RN, CS, FAAN Professor, Graduate Studies School of Nursing University of Alabama at Birmingham Pelham, Alabama Editor Emerita

Editor Emerita
Hilda Richards, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
Chancellor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus
Indiana University, Northwest

Associates Editors
Linda Burnes Bolton, DRPH, RN, FAAN
Director, Nursing Research & Development
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Ophelia Long, MSN, RN
Chairperson, BCHLE

Patricia Tompkins, MS, RN
Retired, Chief, Office of Maternal & Child Health Commission of Public Health, Department of Health & Human Services

Betty Smith Williams, DRPH, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita
California State University/Long Beach

Consulting Editors
Lillian Bell-Gaines, Ph.D.,
Sunday Editorial Section Columnist,
The Elkhart Truth
Retired, University of Notre Dame

Ruth Davidhizar, DNS, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Division of Nursing, Bethel College

Editorial Review Board
Elimia Taylor Asongwed, MS, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
University of the District of Columbia

Mary E. Duffy, Ph.D., FAAN
Professor & Director of the Center
for Nursing Research
Boston College, School of Nursing

Karen Faison, MSN, RNC
Associate Professor
Southside Virginia Community College

Sheldon Fields, Ph.D., APRN, BC, FNP
Assistant Professor,
University of Rochester

Dorothy Fishman, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
President, Fishman Associates

Faye Gary, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
Distinguished Service Professor
College of Nursing, University of Florida

Catherine Gilliss, DNSC, RN, FAAN
Dean, Yale University

Valerie George, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor
Cleveland State University

Lorna Harris, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing
North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University

Constance Hendricks, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Southern University

Gregory Howard, LPN
Member, Board of Directors, National
Association of Licensed Practical Nurses

Juanita Hunter, Ph.D., RN
University of Buffalo,
State University of New York

Virginia Hunter, Ph.D., RN
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
California State University at Los Angeles

Betty Lewis, MSN, RN
Prairie State College

Bettye Davis-Lewis, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
CEO, Diversified Health Care Systems
President, National Black Nurses Association

Patricia Messmer, Ph.D., RN, C, FAAN
Director, Nursing Research
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami, Florida

Fay Miller, Ph.D., RN
Dean of Professional Studies
Southern Connecticut State University

Keith Plowden, Ph.D., RN
Assistant Professor School of Nursing,
University of Maryland at Baltimore

Larry Purnell, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Professor, University of Delaware

Dorothy Ramsey, Ph.D., RN
Professor Emerita, Aldephi University

Estella Reynolds, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, Hampton University

Coralease Ruff, DNSc, RN
Associate Professor and Coordinator
Howard University, College of Nursing

Marla E. Salmon, ScD., RN, FAAN
Dean, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University

Ethelrine Shaw-Nickerson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University

Ora Strickland, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Professor
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University

Joan Gale Turner, DSN, RN
Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Mary Grace Umlauf, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sandra Millon Underwood, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Anna Rambharose Vance, Ph.D., RN, NP
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida

Michael Weaver, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sandra M. Webb-Booker, Ph.D., RN
Coordinator, Practical Nursing Program
Cregier Vocational High School

May Wykle, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor
Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

Advisory Board
M. Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, RN, FAAN
Author, The Path We Tread

Elnora Daniel, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
President
Chicago Sate University

C. Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN
Chairperson, Department of Nursing
Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY

Mary Harper, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Retired, National Institute of Mental Health

Lauranne Sams, Ph.D., RN
Founding President and
President Emerita, NBNA

Herman Taylor, MD
Professor, School of Medicine,
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Principal Investigator
The Jackson Heart Study
The Jackson Mall
Jackson, Mississippi

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