Charlene M. Hanson, EdD, FNP, FAAN
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Dr. Charlene “Chuckie” Hanson is Professor Emerita in Nursing at Georgia Southern University. She received her RN nursing education at St. Peters Hospital, Albany, New York; her BSN at SUNY Oneonta; and her MSN at Syracuse University. She earned a Doctorate in Education from the University of Georgia. Dr. Hanson is a Past President of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and currently chairs the NONPF Task Force for implementing the consultative quality assurance program for NP education. She has had two congressional appointments on the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health during the Reagan administration and on the National Advisory for Nursing Practice and Education under President Clinton. She is a member of the Health Strategies Advisory Council for Georgia State government and recently co-chaired the technical advisory committee on the workforce crisis in health care. She is a consultant to the APN Advisory Committee for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
Dr. Hanson is well published in the nursing and rural health literature, and is a sought after speaker and nurse practitioner education curriculum consultant nationally and internationally. She currently serves as Co-Editorial Director of the American Journal for Nurse Practitioners and is Editorial Director for NP World News. Dr. Hanson was the recipient of the Loretta Ford Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Nurse Practitioner Education in 1995 and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Practice. She was a Primary Care Public Policy Fellow in 1994. Dr. Hanson continues to teach in the FNP program at Georgia Southern University that she founded in 1981 and to mentor faculty and schools of nursing who offer nurse practitioner education. She maintains a part time clinical practice as a family nurse practitioner in rural south Georgia.
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