CAPN Tallahassee Member Named American Academy of Nursing Fellow Posted 5 days ago by Mary Anne Koeppel
Congratulations to Dr. Linda Clark Amankwaa, PhD, RN Linda Clark Amankwaa is an associate professor at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. Nursing over thirty-five years, Dr. Amankwaa's career focused on women's health within hospitals, a private doctor office, an HMO, and private clinics; finally, she settled in nursing education. Her memberships span many organizations such as American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau, International, and Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, Capital Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, and Bethel AME Church Tallahassee. Dr. Amankwaa has enjoyed teaching experiences at several universities and currently teaches at Albany State University, Georgia. Experience in distance education began with a program for nurses at Florida State University which lead to her work with doctoral nursing students at University of Phoenix and master's students at Walden University. Dr. Amankwaa has received many awards, conducted studies, published her work and as volunteered in the community. Her crowning achievement was the creation of the Maternal Infant Responsiveness instrument during her tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University. This instrument is currently used in many countries around the world. Dr. Amankwaa is a 1971 graduate of Amos Godby High School, Tallahassee; Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville; University of Florida, Gainesville; Florida State University, Tallahassee; and Georgia State University.
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING The American Academy of Nursing's approximately 2,200 fellows are nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research. (There are 3,063,162 licensed registered nurses in the United States.) Fellows represent association executives; university presidents, chancellors and deans; state and federal political appointees; hospital chief executives and vice presidents for nursing; nurse consultants; and researchers and entrepreneurs. Invitation to fellowship is more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing profession. Academy fellows also have a responsibility to contribute their time and energies to the Academy, and to engage with other health care leaders outside the Academy in transforming America's health care system by
Enhancing the quality of health and nursing care; Promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum; Reducing health disparities and inequalities; Shaping healthy behaviors and environments; Integrating mental and physical health care; and Strengthening the nursing and health care delivery system, nationally, and internationally.