Nassau + Adelphi grad appointed to NYS Board of Nursing

[need2chill]

Leonard appointed to nursing board

TARRYTOWN -- Margaret Leonard, senior vice president of clinical services at Hudson Health Plan, has been appointed to a five-year term on the New York State Board of Nursing. The board oversees registered nurses, nurse practitioners and licensed practical nurses, with the charge to advise and assist the Board of Regents and the State Education Department on matters of professional regulation.

As a board member, Leonard will help implement a proposed law, now before the New York State Legislature, mandating that new nurses obtain bachelor degrees in nursing within 10 years, something she championed as chair of the New York State Nurses Association Legislative Council.

Leonard is an adjunct instructor at the College of New Rochelle School of Nursing, where she teaches the politics of health care. She also has a home in Lake Luzerne. In 2006, Leonard received the National Case Manager of the Year Award from the CMSA.

She is a graduate of an Associate Degree Program at Nassau Community College and received her master's degree and post-master's Family Nurse Practitioner's certification from Adelphi University where she graduated cum laude.

Leonard is past president of the Case Management Society of America, past chair of the American Nurses Credentialing Center Nurse Case Management Expert Panel, chair of the Case Management Society of America Public Policy Committee, past chair of New York State Nurses Association Legislative Council, and past member of NYSNA Political Action Committee Board of Trustees.

She is a member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) Quality and Measures Council and has been appointed to the NQF Steering Committee on Care Coordination. Leonard is also involved in the work of several national and regional coalitions including the National Transitions of Care Coalition, and is a member of its Public Policy Task Force; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Technical Expert Panel on Hospital Readmissions within 30 Days; and CARF International Accreditation BOD.

She co-chaired the statewide Case Management Work Group with the medical director of the New York State Department of Health's Office of Managed Care.

[elleNY]

Associate degree prepared nurse pushing for BSN only...would love to read one of her articles/papers supporting the measure!