Nursing academy selects Grossman for induction
The American Academy of Nursing will induct Jan Grossman, DNSc, R.N., associate professor of nursing, at the academy’s 30th annual meeting and conference to be held Nov. 13-15 in San Diego, Calif.
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Jan Grossman
Grossman was the only nurse from South Carolina selected for this prestigious honor. Inductees are exceptional nursing leaders in education, research, practice, and professional associations who have made an outstanding contribution to nursing over and above one’s position of employment. Two academy members must sponsor inductees for membership.
Grossman earned her doctor of nursing science in psychiatric nursing from Rush University in Chicago, Ill. Her contributions lie in the mental health field, where she has demonstrated nursing leadership in suicide prevention and evidence-based practice in family courts. She has helped promote a number of important national policy changes in suicide prevention and has served as an investigator on a youth suicide prevention grant funded by Ronald McDonald Children Charities. This project impacted 155 Chicago area schools, resulted in nine data-based publications, disseminated 50,000 CD-ROMs nationwide, and culminated in a national media campaign.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry presented Grossman with the Norbert and Charlotte Reiger Service Program Award for her work on this project.
Since she began working at MUSC, Grossman has been responsible for the graduate education program that prepares nurses for advanced practice roles in mental health and psychiatric nursing. She also participates in the development of a family drug court including roles for advanced practice nurses and is funded on juvenile drug court and school health clinic grants. She also serves on numerous local, regional, and national advisory boards, including the SC Statewide Suicide Prevention Task Force, and authors a column for the American Association of Suicidology. Most recently, she coordinated the first Guide project in suicide, a systematic review of the effectiveness of sixteen universal and selective suicide interventions. This project is a building block of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s review of best practices in suicide prevention.
The American Academy of Nursing is part of the American Nurse’s Association, the only full-service professional organization that represents the nation’s 2.7 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent associations.
ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards on nursing
practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace,
projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the
Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses
and the public.
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