AONL Honors Yoder-Wise With Lifetime Achievement Award

AONL named Patricia Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN, as its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. The award honors an AONL member recognized by the nursing community as a significant leader in the nursing profession who has served AONL in an important leadership capacity. Yoder-Wise serves as dean and professor emerita at Texas Tech University Health Sciences in Lubbock, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing and president of The Wise Group. She is a co-founder of The National Collaborative for Transition to Practice and The Nurses Legacy Institute, where she serves as vice president. She also is an AONL fellow who has held hospital leadership positions. AONL will honor Yoder-Wise March 31 at the AONL annual conference in Boston. (AONL news release, 12/16/24)