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Carol J. Huston, DPA, MSN, RN, FAAN
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Carol Jorgensen Huston has been a Professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Chico (CSUC), since 1982 and assumed the position of Director of the School of Nursing from 2010-15. She currently teaches classes on leadership, management, health finance, and health systems part time as Emerita Professor. Huston was named one of seven CSUC Master Teachers in 1999, 2000, and 2001, the CSUC Outstanding Teacher for the 2001-02 academic year, and the CSUC Outstanding Professor for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Huston is co-author of six textbooks on leadership, management, and professional issues in nursing (a total of 19 editions) and has published more than 100 articles and editorials in leading professional journals. Her coauthored book Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing, now in its ninth edition, has been translated into four languages, and Management Decision Making for Nurses received an AJN Book of the Year award. The fourth edition of Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities published in 2017.
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In addition, Huston has given more than 300 presentations at nursing and healthcare conferences worldwide. She is also a successful grant writer and has been primary investigator or co-investigator of multiple grants. Huston has served on the Enloe Medical Center (Chico, California) Board of Trustees since 2012 and as Chair of the board since 2016.
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Huston is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. In addition, she served as the 2007-09 President of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). As President, she was responsible for strategic planning, program implementation, and fiduciary oversight of approximately 130,000 nurses in more than 470 chapters in more than 90 countries. In addition, she served as Co-chairperson of the 2010 International Year of the Nurse (IYNurse) Initiative, a global partnership effort of STTI, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health, and Nightingale Museum of London. She has served as lead faculty for STTI's Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy since 2014 and is Facilitator and Coordinator for STTI's Institute for Global Healthcare Leadership, which launched in Washington, DC, in September 2016.