Our Nurse of the Week is Dr. Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, President of Frontier Nursing University (FNU), who was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her achievements in impacting accessibility of quality health care for rural families across the US.

Dr. Stone has been President at FNU since 2001, serving as a leader in the development of strategies to increase the quality and capacity of the midwifery and advanced practice nursing workforce to improve health care for families. At FNU, she led the transition from a community-based school of nurse-midwifery offering a basic certificate to an accredited university offering master’s and doctoral degrees.

FNU is focused on educating primary care providers from rural and underserved communities who will then serve rural and underserved populations. The university offers tracks in nurse-midwifery, family nurse practitioner, women’s health care nurse practitioner, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.

Dr. Stone also serves as President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives where she works to increase the midwifery workforce through educational quality and capacity strategies, advocacy related to the maternal mortality and morbidity crisis, and increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce.

Stone tells Frontier.edu, “I am deeply honored to be elected to The National Academy of Medicine. I am so grateful for this opportunity to work collaboratively with and learn from other leaders across many other medical professions and disciplines. I am eager to join the Academy’s ongoing efforts to improve health and healthcare.”

To learn more about Frontier Nursing University President Dr. Susan Stone’s election to the National Academy of Medicine, visit here.

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