Gwen SherwoodGWEN D. SHERWOOD, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF, has a distinguished record in advancing nursing education locally and globally. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. She is an expert in patient sfety, teamwork, and interprofessional education, and her work focuses on transforming healthcare environments by expanding the relational capacity of healthcare providers. Her work has examined patient satisfaction with pain management outcomes, the spiritual dimensions of care, and teamwork as a variable in patient safety spanning education and practice.Sherwood was a pioneer in integrating quality and safety in health professions education.She was co-investigator for the award-winning Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) project to transform education and practice to prepare nurses to work in and lead quality and safety in redesigned healthcare systems. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2005-2012, the QSEN Steering Team received the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Media Award, and its website (www.QSEN.org) received the Information Technology Award.Sherwood has been engaged in multiple interprofessional projects including co- investigator for the UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University Interprofessional Patient Safety Education Collaborative, patient safety leader at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine and the Academy for Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety (formerly the Telluride Project), and adjunct faculty in the Master of Science in Patient Safety Leadership program and now the MedStar Patient Safety Institute.Her professional service includes the Research Committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Technical Expert Panel of TeamSTEPPS, the QSEN Advisory Board, past President of the International Association for Human Caring, faculty and mentor in the Sigma Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy, and advisor for the Technical Expert Panel for the Patient Centered Care AHRQ Task Order at MedStar Health.Sherwood's distinguished service to Sigma includes Distinguished Lecturer, Virginia Henderson Fellow, Chair of the global task force for the Scholarship of Reflective Practice position paper, and Vice President of the board of directors. She chaired the Research Scholarship Advisory Council and speaks frequently for chapters around the world.Her hospital research team received the 2001 Regional Research Utilization Award for implementing relationship-centered care. ABOUT THE AUTHORSHer work bridges US and global organizations to expand nursing undergraduate and graduate education capacity to serve developing regions. Formerly Executive Associate Dean at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's School of Nursing, shebridged academia and practice through a joint appointment as Co-Director of the Center for Professional Excellence at The Methodist Hospital. She led numerous educational outreach programs in developing areas both on the Texas-Mexico border and around the world.A global ambassador for nursing, she has worked with nurse educators in Kazakhstan, Sakhalin, Macau, Thailand, Taiwan, and Kenya and helped lead the nursing education renaissance in China. Widely published, she is co-editor of three other books: International Textbook of Reflective Practice in Nursing, Quality and Safety in Nursing: A Competency Approach to Improve Outcomes (AJN Book of the Year), and Reflective Organizations: On the Front Lines of QSEN and Reflective Practice Implementation (second place AJN Book of the Year). Among many honors, she was awarded Outstanding Alumnus at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing and the University of Texas Austin in addition to the Special Award for International Interprofessional Education from the Prince Madhidol Conference, Sigma's Mary Tolle Wright Leadership Award, an Honorary Doctorate from Jonkoping University, and Fellowship Ad Eundem from the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Read More Read Less