The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) has selected John Bing, BSN, CRNA, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) from Clarksville, MD, to serve as a Fellow. Bing is joining more than 2,600 nursing professionals who have been selected as AAN Fellows since the academy was established in 1973. Of those 2,600, fewer than 50 are CRNAs. Bing is one of three CRNAs being inducted into the AAN Class of 2019 Fellows.
Bing is the president of J. Bing and Associates Anesthesia Services and an independent CRNA contractor for West End Plastic Surgery in Washington, DC. He has also been president of the Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program (DNAMP) for the past 10 years. The mission of the DNAMP is to inform, empower, and mentor the underrepresented population’s entry into the nurse anesthesia profession.
Bing tells prnewswire.com, ”It is an honor and a privilege to be selected to the academy, both for me personally and for the profession of nurse anesthesia. I look forward to learning many new things and partnering with my nursing colleagues to continue to move the nursing profession forward. Diversity (racial/ethnic) has been diluted down as a feel good proposition and has long been tolerated, not celebrated. The time has come when we must embrace this coming change and make measurable results in this new 21st Century health arena.”
Over the course of his career, Bing has been a two-time president of the Maryland Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA), provided testimony before the Maryland State Legislature, been appointed by the governor to the Maryland State Board of Nursing, and hosted a month-long internship regarding professionalism in nursing for nursing students at Coppin State University. He is also a sought-after lecturer on topics ranging from office-based anesthesia to diversity and the namesake of an endowed scholarship at the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing.
To learn more about John Bing, BSN, CRNA, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist who has been selected as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, visit here.
Janice Beitz, a professor in the Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing, has been named a fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP). She will be inducted in March at an annual meeting for NAP, an interprofessional, national organization that advises governmental bodies on health care delivery in the United States.
Beitz stated in a press release, “The fellowship in the National Academies of Practice will provide an opportunity for me to influence quality patient care for the future. I am honored to be able to influence decisions based on my clinical expertise and scholarship regarding safe, effective patient care.”
Beitz is an expert in wound, ostomy, and continence care, with more than 40 years of nursing experience in acute, sub-acute, and outpatient care settings. She is the director of the graduate-level Rutgers University‒Camden Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing Education Program and board certified as an adult clinical specialist in medical-surgical nursing, and as a nurse of the operating room.
As a nursing educator, Beitz has also created wound/ostomy/continence and perioperative nursing care programs that have been recognized with awards from the Pennsylvania League for Nursing, the WOCN Society Northeast Region, and the American Professional Wound Care Association. Beitz is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and a member of the Academy of Nursing Education Fellows (ANEF) for her innovations in improving clinical practice and patient safety through education, practice, and research.
To learn more about Janice Beitz, a professor in the Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing, who has been named a fellow of the National Academies of Practice, visit here.
The National League for Nursing’s (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education recently named Marie O’Toole, a nursing professor at Rutgers University-Camden, a fellow. NLN fellows are selected for their contributions to nursing education — as teachers, mentors, scholars, public policy advocates, practice partners, administrators, and more. O’Toole was one of 16 nurses selected nationwide for the distinction in 2018, recognized for their leadership and expertise in nursing education.
O’Toole serves as senior associate dean in the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden and is a registered nurse in New Jersey and New York. She began her career serving as a staff nurse at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania before serving as a nursing instructor at Rutgers–Camden and going on to serve a 35-year academic career at several notable institutions. She has also served as the associate dean for the Stratford campus for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing, which is now a part of Rutgers University. O’Toole attended the University of Pennsylvania for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing, and earned her doctoral degree from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
O’Toole tells news.camden.rutgers.edu, “I am proud to be a part of a growing, thriving academic community that strives to make a difference in its home city of Camden and also is committed to scholarship that distinguishes it on an international level.”
O’Toole was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant in education in 2016-17 that allowed her to teach and study at Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan. The grant recognized O’Toole’s innovative work in developing and implementing global nurse education programs with partners in other countries. In the 1990s, she worked with the nonprofit organization Health Volunteers Overseas on a project funded by the US Agency for International Development to develop baccalaureate nursing education in Vietnam. She also served as the principal investigator for a grant funded by the US Department of Education and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture to create the first undergraduate, dual-degree program in nursing addressing the growing need for international recognition of nursing education to facilitate efficient emigration of nurses.
To learn more about Marie O’Toole, a nursing professor at Rutgers University-Camden who was recently named a fellow in the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education, visit here.
Lucas’s professional work has largely been focused on issues related to safety and the quality of care for geriatric populations living in community home care, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. She has published scholarly investigations evaluating clinical practice guidelines, nursing home transition programs, and depression and psychological services in long-term care residents.
Her current research is focused on safety and regulatory factors affecting quality in long-term care, specifically, prescribing patterns, antipsychotic use, and resident outcomes. Recent research on the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications in dementia care has influenced policy changes for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state agencies, long-term care organizations and practitioners.
GSA is the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. Being recognized as a fellow is an acknowledgment of outstanding and continued work in gerontology including research, teaching, public service, and practice.
Lucas will be formally recognized during GSA’s 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting in November. To learn more about Seton Hall Nursing associate dean Judith Lucas and her recent recognition by the Gerontological Society of America, visit here.
Whyte tells News.FSU.edu, “It is an honor to be recognized as a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing. I am hopeful that being admitted into the academy as a fellow will open new doors to me as a researcher and leader in nursing. I intend to keep working hard to forward my program of research.”
Whyte began his career in the US Marines and was later selected for a commissioning program in which he chose the Nurse Corps option. After traveling extensively and serving all over the world during his service, Whyte later entered academia to further his work with young people and engage in his research free of the demands of military service.
Now Whyte maintains active clinical practice as a nurse practitioner, with a focus in family and pediatric care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and people living with HIV/AIDS. His research focuses on the development of expert performance in nurses and other health care professionals, along with care of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Whyte holds a doctorate in nursing from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a doctorate in public health from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. To learn more about his induction as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing, visit here.
