2012 international new Fellows - American Academy of Nursing

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DEbRa HatmaKER, pHD, Rn-bC, sanE-a
Debra Hatmaker is Chief Programs Officer of the Georgia Nurses Association. She has served
in distinguished association leadership roles where she has successfully pioneered innovative
approaches, built partnerships, and led beneficial organizational and process changes. Her
style is a model of professionalism, poise and integrity.
As First VP of the American Nurses Association, she worked for mission realignment and
organizational stability. The organization was strategically stronger and more effective in its
policy work as evidenced by ANA’s major role in the passage of federal healthcare reform.
Concurrent with her ANA 1st VP term, she was appointed president of ANA’s credentialing
subsidiary, the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Dr. Hatmaker led a reorganization of board governance and moved ANCC to a business model
resulting in programmatic growth and proactive marketing for international credentialing. Her
leadership produced an international business plan to provide major growth for credentialing.
These international credentialing efforts have served to raise the level of nursing practice in
organizations and nations.
Dr. Hatmaker has also led in practice as a sexual assault nurse examiner. She established
a community-based non-profit organization serving 1,200 survivors over 16 years. She
also founded an interdisciplinary state-wide SANE education program which has served
as a national model. To lend further credibility to this new specialty, she was appointed the
first president of the Forensic Nursing Certification Board to lead development of a SANE
certification program. This credential is recognized by the nursing and legal system as a mark
of excellence for forensic nursing practice.
laURa p. KimblE, pHD, Rn, Fnp-C, FaHa
Laura P. Kimble is the Piedmont Healthcare Endowed Chair in Nursing at the Georgia Baptist
College of Nursing of Mercer University, Atlanta campus.
Dr. Kimble has made contributions to nursing science in the area of the symptom experience with
patients with chronic stable angina both through substantive research and as a methodologist.
Her research has been extramurally funded by the National Institutes of Health and the
American Heart Association. The findings of her research were included in NINR’s publication,
“Subtle and Dangerous: Symptoms of Heart Disease in Women.” Dr. Kimble has received honors
and awards for her research and teaching including the Georgia Nurses Association Researcher
of the Year Award and the Outstanding Alumna Award for Research from the University of
Kentucky College of Nursing.
Dr. Kimble’s scholarship in the area of instrument development has demonstrated international
impact. In less developed countries, where coronary artery revascularization procedures are not
as accessible, persons with symptomatic CAD often most rely on sublingual nitroglycerin (SLN)
for symptom relief. Efforts by clinicians internationally to study SLN knowledge and use have
led to her instrument, the Sublingual Nitroglycerin Interview Schedule being translated and used
globally in research studies. With her expertise in statistics, Dr. Kimble has had a major regional
influence on helping bedside nurses have a better understanding of research evidence.
Dr. Kimble received a BSN from Berea College, a Master of Science in Nursing from the
University of Kentucky, and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Rochester.
ElainE maRsHall, pHD, Rn
Elaine Marshall is Professor and Bulloch Healthcare Endowed Chair at the School of Nursing at
Georgia Southern University and past Dean of the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University.
Dr. Marshall is a founding co-director of the Georgia Rural Health Research Institute, an
inter-professional center to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes of underserved
families in rural communities. This work grew from her leadership experience building teams
to address needs of families with chronic health conditions and promote health among women
and children. The significant influence of history on nursing practice and policy pervades her
scholarship. Dr. Marshall is an expert on the history of nursing in the American West. Her work
to reveal connections of professional nursing with early suffragists inspired the founding of
Nursing Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House.