Nursing professor appointed to national health policy council

October 25, 2019

Dr. Betty Rambur will help advise AACN on health policy

URI College of Nursing Professor Betty Rambur will help guide policies of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing after recently being appointed to the association’s Health Policy Advisory Council.

The ACCN created the council in January 2015 “to guide the association in its development of policy statements surrounding current and emerging areas in health, healthcare, and higher education,” the association announced. “It is part of a larger proposal to increase the footprint AACN members can make in the policies that will impact health locally and globally.”

HPAC’s purpose is to provide contextual and policy guidance to the association for issues that require insight from nursing academia expertise.

As part of the AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council, Rambur, who is the College’s Routhier Endowed Chair for practice, will help:

  • Provide strategic guidance for the health policy department on federal level rules and regulations, notices, and other requests for comment;
  • Identify contemporary and emerging policy issue areas that impact academic nursing;
  • Review policy statements, analyses, and member communications regarding AACN’s position on national policy issues;
  • Assist with identification and vetting of individuals to serve as experts to represent the association on specific issues and as nominees for federal committees.