Amy Hester PhD, RN, BC, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer, HD Nursing, LLC has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Academy). Dr, Hester is the 2022-2023 Chair of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) Advancing Science and Practice Committee. Congratulations on your honor, Dr. Hester!
Longtime friend and colleague of ARN Past President, Patricia Quigley, PhD MPH APRN CRRN FAAN FAANP FARN, Nurse Consultant, stood as a sponsor for Dr. Hester in this honor.
"I am honored to present to you Dr. Amy Hester, scientist, informaticist, entrepreneur, innovator, adjunct faculty at UAMS SON, mentor, now inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, at the historic 50th Anniversary Celebration, among the largest class of 260 nurses of highest achievement, now Fellows from this great country and around the world. Please join Dr. Patti Dykes and I, her sponsors, as we celebrate Amy's most exemplary, distinguished career achievements as Chairwoman and CEO of HD Nursing, LLC, a Patient Safety Solutions Enterprise that includes but is not limited to reducing falls, injurious falls, and pressure injuries, while integrating risk-mitigation solutions into organizations."
The Academy is a policy organization and an honorific society that recognizes nursing's most accomplished leaders in policy, research, practice, administration, and academia to advance equitable solutions to the nation's most complex health care challenges. Academy Fellows, from over 40 countries, hold a wide variety of influential roles in health care. Induction into the Fellowship represents more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing profession. Fellows contribute their collective expertise to the Academy, engaging with health leaders nationally and globally to improve health and achieve health equity by impacting policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and science,
According to the official press release from HD Nursing, Dr. Hester states that "it is a privilege to join esteemed nursing leaders who have made lasting impacts in policy, research, practice and administration. This opens more opportunity for contributing expertise and collaborating with Fellow members as we drive positive change in healthcare locally and globally."
Read the full press release and more, below.
About Dr. Amy Hester
With over 25 years of nursing experience including over a decade of med/surge and neuro nursing followed by unit management and hospital administration, Dr. Hester is currently CEO and Chairwoman of HD Nursing. In 2015, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science and has since published and spoken extensively on falls and injury prediction and prevention. Upon retirement from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) in 2018 after 26 years of service, she transitioned her focus to HD Nursing. She also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the UAMS College of Nursing. As an entrepreneur, she mentors others to help them with their own endeavors.