Senior Associate Dean of Nursing, Professor Chief Academic Nurse
University of Delaware
Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, FNAP, ANEF, FAAN, was appointed as Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Nursing at University of Delaware on August 1, 2020. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Speakman was the Associate Provost for Interprofessional and Tele-health Education and Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Speakman also held faculty and administrative appointments at Thomas Jefferson University, as Professor in the Jefferson College of Nursing and Co-Director of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education Center, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Dean of the RN-BSN program in the Jefferson College of Nursing. Dr. Speakman is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education, Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow.
Dr. Speakman's work has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally. She authored two books Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: Creating a Blueprint for Nurse Educators (recipient of AJN 2nd place Book-of-the- Year Award), and Body Fluids and Electrolytes: and has been a contributing author in numerous books concentrating on nursing curriculum models.
Dr. Speakman has been a nurse for more than 44 years and a nurse educator for over 39 years and serves as a curriculum expert and consultant with over 160 presentations. Dr. Speakman was recently Chair of the Nursing Academy of the National Academies of Practice and served two three-year terms as a Board of Governor for the National League for Nursing. In 2014, Dr. Speakman was awarded the Louise McManus Medal for Distinguish Service to Nursing Education and inducted into Columbia University Nursing Hall of Fame for her Extraordinary Contribution to Nursing and Health Care. Dr. Speakman received a BS in Nursing from Wagner College, New York and her Master Degree and Doctorate in Nursing from Columbia University and a Certificate in Healthcare Education from the Harvard-Macy Institute at Harvard University.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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