Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR, FAAN, is the immediate past, two-term President of the American Nurses Association (2006-2010), and current Atkinson Visiting Instructor in Perioperative Nursing at Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, USA -where she is gaining her DNP with mentor Joyce Fitzpatrick.

Margarete L. Zalon, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, is Professor, University of Scranton, Department of Nursing, Scranton, PA, USA; Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, American Nurses Credentialing Center; and immediate past President-Chair, American Nurses Foundation, where she also served as Director at Large (2002-2004).

, PhD, RN-BC, CNS, is Professor Emeritus, Nursing, Kent State University, USA and an Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Central Queensland, Australia. Recently, she was Director, Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist Program, Kent State University, USA and Director, Nursing Research, Robinson Memorial Hospital, Ohio, USA.

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