Donna S. Havens, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Connelly Endowed Dean of the Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. She began in that role June 30, 2018. Her career in the nursing profession spans decades and has included a blend of roles in nursing practice, academia, administration and research in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Havens brings broad international experience to her role at Villanova. She has held several appointments abroad, including as a visiting international scholar at the School of Nursing, midwifery and social work at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She also served as the Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and as a visiting professor in the National Nursing Research Unit at the King’s College Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care in London.
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Some nursing jobs focus on direct patient care while others emphasize teaching, research or leadership.
Most of them look for nurses that are educated at least at the baccalaureate level in nursing. ... Research documents exceptionally well that, the better educated the nurse who cares for you, the better the outcomes. They work in every industry. They work everywhere where people need their knowledge and their skills and expertise. It's a wide-open market, and a very interesting thing is that – over the course of one's career in nursing – you could hold many, many different titles and jobs.
I'm concerned that we're going to see higher levels of burnout than we already have been [seeing], especially amongst health care professionals, but, as Peter says, all of the workers and their families.
For the first time in my career, I feel the world really understands what nurses do, and they really understand how important the contributions of nurses are to health and healthcare.