Faculty receive honors from the National Academies of Practice
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UIC College of Nursing at Urbana campus director Krista Jones, DNP ’11, MSN ’07, RN, PHNA-BC, FAAN, was selected for induction as a Distinguished Scholar Fellow of the National Academies of Practice.
The National Academies of Practice is an interprofessional group of health care practitioners and scholars dedicated to supporting affordable, accessible, coordinated health care for all. Distinguished practitioners and scholars are elected by their peers from multiple health professions.
“It is an extreme honor to be recognized by my peers,” says Jones, who is also UIC Nursing’s inaugural Jean C. Stout Endowed Faculty Scholar. “It is a high point of pride to hold this distinction as a member of the UIC College of Nursing faculty.”
In addition to Jones’ honor, Laura Monahan, DNP ’16, MS ’12, RN, OSF, MBA, director of the UIC College of Nursing at Rockford campus, was accepted as a professional member of the National Academies of Practice. Both Monahan and Jones will be inducted at the organization’s annual meeting and forum in Washington, D.C., in March.
About Krista Jones:
Jones says she became involved with the National Academies of Practice as part of her own work on interprofessional collaboration, including the development of student education strategies and scholarship on evidence-based programming for practitioners.
She is an Interprofessional Education (IPE) team member on the University of Illinois at Urbana campus, where she has developed and implemented interprofessional opportunities for students from nursing, medicine, social work and public health. She is also a member of the IPE team on the Peoria campus, which conducts annual immersion experiences using simulations with students from nursing, medicine, social work, pharmacy, nutrition, physical therapy and dentistry.
Jones serves as chair of the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, the Illinois Nursing Workforce Center and the Champaign County Board of Health, and she is the immediate past president of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators. She is an Illinois Board of Higher Education Nursing Faculty Fellow, American Association of Colleges of Nursing Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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About Laura Monahan:
Monahan has developed six innovative interprofessional education programs for medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and psychology students that include the Art Rounds, Bioterrorism Preparedness Project, Haitian Clinical Experience for Baccalaureate Students, Interprofessional Education Day, Leader2Leader Mentorship Program, and Maternal Hemorrhage Project.
She is principal investigator and co-investigator on grants totaling $2.6 million. At the National Academies of Practice meeting in March, she will be co-presenting a 60-minute round table discussion on “An Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative: Improving Adolescent Psychosocial Assessment through Standardized Patient Simulation.”
Along with clinical assistant professor Summer Park, DNP, FNP-BC, and associate professor Kelly Rosenberger, DNP ’12, CNM, WHNP-BC, FAANP, she’ll also be presenting a poster on “Interprofessional Collaboration via Mobile Health Unit in Rural Underserved Communities.”