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LOVELAND, Colo. – Bonnie Clipper, the chief nursing officer at Medical Center of the Rockies, has been named one of 20 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows for 2014.
Clipper joins a select group of nurses from across the country chosen to participate in the final cohort of this three-year leadership development program that is enhancing the effectiveness of nurse leaders who are working to improve the United States health care system.
“I am humbled at being given this wonderful development opportunity and look forward to building a culture of health care in my community,” Clipper said.
In 2013, Clipper was awarded the American Organization of Nurse Executives Nurse Mentor award. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the American Nurses Association newspaper The American Nurse and the ANA Nursing Administration Advisory Panel charged with revising the Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice. Clipper, who is the creator of newnursesuccess.com, is also a national speaker on new nurse transition and the impact of a multi-generational workforce and author of the book “The Nurse Manager’s Guide to an Intergenerational Workforce.”
Begun by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1998, the program strengthens the leadership capacity of nurses who aspire to shape health care in their communities, states and nationally.
“At this moment, when the role of nurses in providing care and promoting health is expanding and our country’s health care system is being transformed, we need nurse leaders with the strongest skills possible,” said program co-director Linda Cronenwett, dean emerita and professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Our alumni are a virtual ‘who’s who’ of accomplished, prestigious nurses, and we know that Dr. Clipper and the other members of the 2014 RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows cohort will do a tremendous amount to improve health care and build a culture of health in the United States.”
For more information about the program, visit www.ExecutiveNurseFellows.org.
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