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A Few Minutes With Nancy F. Langston
EDITORIAL BOARD OUTLOOK A Few Minutes With Nancy F. Langston PhD, RN, FAAN
BIOGRAPHY My association with AORN is not based on expertise in perioperative nursing practice. I entered nursing in 1966 and have been a nursing educator for most of my career. Since 1991, I have served as dean of the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. In 2001, as I was ending my term as the National League for Nursing (NLN) president and beginning a term as chair of the newly established NLN Foundation for Nursing Education, the NLN and AORN Foundations identified a mutual interest in preparing the future nursing workforce. The NLN was interested in innovative models of clinical education, and AORN wanted to increase interest in perioperative nursing as a career. We started a think tank to identify how our interests could complement each other. I continue to gain a broader understanding of how nursing education and nursing practice can work together to create clinical educational placements that prepare competent nurses and reintroduce perioperative clinical opportunities into the prelicensure curriculum. Question: rial Board?
What are your roles on the Edito-
Answer: The first is to serve as an enlightened member regarding the status of specialty publications and to bring that perspective to discussions about the future of our Journal. Because my
expertise is in education and not perioperative nursing practice, the second role is to raise questions that may be missed by others who understand the practice field so well. My responsibilities related to the substance of the Journal are to encourage manuscript submission and to serve as a peer reviewer for manuscripts in my area of expertise. Question: What does the AORN Journal offer you? Answer: As an educator, I must continually scan the practice environment for emerging trends and issues. Reading the Journal, in addition to education and research journals, gives me a perspective from which to continue improvements to my school’s education programs. The Journal provides me with grounding in the “real world work and knowledge” of current practice. Question: Where do you think the Journal will be in five years? Answer: Technologies of knowledge dissemination have led us to previously unimagined possibilities. I believe that, as a result of technology, our Journal will become global, with simultaneous translations in numerous languages, and will publish more manuscripts produced by practitioners in other countries. The online edition of the Journal will serve as a platform for links to other relevant resources, including webinars, podcasts, and chat rooms.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2012.06.006
Ó AORN, Inc, 2012
October 2012
Vol 96 No 4
AORN Journal j 361
BIOGRAPHY My association with AORN is not based on expertise in perioperative nursing practice. I entered nursing in 1966 and have been a nursing educator for most of my career. Since 1991, I have served as dean of the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. In 2001, as I was ending my term as the National League for Nursing (NLN) president and beginning a term as chair of the newly established NLN Foundation for Nursing Education, the NLN and AORN Foundations identified a mutual interest in preparing the future nursing workforce. The NLN was interested in innovative models of clinical education, and AORN wanted to increase interest in perioperative nursing as a career. We started a think tank to identify how our interests could complement each other. I continue to gain a broader understanding of how nursing education and nursing practice can work together to create clinical educational placements that prepare competent nurses and reintroduce perioperative clinical opportunities into the prelicensure curriculum. Question: rial Board?
What are your roles on the Edito-
Answer: The first is to serve as an enlightened member regarding the status of specialty publications and to bring that perspective to discussions about the future of our Journal. Because my
expertise is in education and not perioperative nursing practice, the second role is to raise questions that may be missed by others who understand the practice field so well. My responsibilities related to the substance of the Journal are to encourage manuscript submission and to serve as a peer reviewer for manuscripts in my area of expertise. Question: What does the AORN Journal offer you? Answer: As an educator, I must continually scan the practice environment for emerging trends and issues. Reading the Journal, in addition to education and research journals, gives me a perspective from which to continue improvements to my school’s education programs. The Journal provides me with grounding in the “real world work and knowledge” of current practice. Question: Where do you think the Journal will be in five years? Answer: Technologies of knowledge dissemination have led us to previously unimagined possibilities. I believe that, as a result of technology, our Journal will become global, with simultaneous translations in numerous languages, and will publish more manuscripts produced by practitioners in other countries. The online edition of the Journal will serve as a platform for links to other relevant resources, including webinars, podcasts, and chat rooms.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2012.06.006
Ó AORN, Inc, 2012
October 2012
Vol 96 No 4
AORN Journal j 361