Purdue Nursing faculties get American Academy of Nursing Fellow honours

Two nursing faculties of Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences have received the prestigious American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellows.

Study in US: American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellows are those who contribute extraordinarily to advancing global and local health. These fellows are some of the most accomplished nursing leaders.

The two nursing faculty members of Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences who received the AAN honours are - Vicki Simpson and Libby Richards.

Libby Richards was recently promoted to full professor, she has been a part of the university since 2006.

“To be inducted as a fellow, you need to impact the field of nursing over and above what you do in your job. I was very fortunate to have some colleagues see something in me that I didn’t see in myself yet and encourage me to go through this process. I’m very grateful they did that. Without colleagues like that, we will never really keep moving our profession forward," she said.

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“I think a very important part of leadership is being able to connect with those that you are working with, to make others feel heard and to create an environment of buy-in of the project overall, and I think because of my ability to do that, we are creating a very successful Nursing and Pharmacy Education Building,” Richards added.

Vicki Simpson is interim associate head of the School of Nursing.

“Most of what I’ve done I couldn’t have done without all of the people who are there to walk alongside me and collaborate with me, and I truly wouldn’t have gotten this award without all of those people,” Simpson said.

“What Nancy and I have been able to achieve is to create some consistency and let our faculty know that we’re here to support them,” Simpson added.

“My work, after working with Clinton County for so long, started to focus on how we build community networks that work well together, instead of duplicating services, competing for resources and overlapping. The last couple of years, I’ve been involved with a HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)- funded project in Jay and Blackford counties, where we’ve worked to build a stronger community network to address substance use prevention, treatment and recovery. We’ve seen a lot of success there. I love working with people in communities. There are so many dedicated people out there, ensuring these things are getting done, and without that, it wouldn’t happen," she further added.

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