CAPN Tallahassee Member Named American

Academy of Nursing Fellow

Posted 5 days ago by Mary Anne Koeppel

Congratulations to Dr. Linda Clark Amankwaa, PhD, RN

Linda Clark Amankwaa is an associate professor at Albany State

University in Albany, Georgia.

Nursing over thirty-five years, Dr. Amankwaa's career focused on

women's health within hospitals, a private doctor office, an HMO, and

private clinics; finally, she settled in nursing education. Her

memberships span many organizations such as American Nurses

Association, Sigma Theta Tau, International, and Association of

Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, Capital Advanced

Nurse Practitioners, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, and Bethel AME

Church Tallahassee.

Dr. Amankwaa has enjoyed teaching experiences at several universities

and currently teaches at Albany State University, Georgia. Experience

in distance education began with a program for nurses at Florida State

University which lead to her work with doctoral nursing students at

University of Phoenix and master's students at Walden University.

Dr. Amankwaa has received many awards, conducted studies, published her work and as

volunteered in the community. Her crowning achievement was the creation of the Maternal

Infant Responsiveness instrument during her tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University. This

instrument is currently used in many countries around the world.

Dr. Amankwaa is a 1971 graduate of Amos Godby High School, Tallahassee; Santa Fe

Community College, Gainesville; University of Florida, Gainesville; Florida State University,

Tallahassee; and Georgia State University.

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING

The American Academy of Nursing's approximately 2,200 fellows are nursing leaders in education,

management, practice and research. (There are 3,063,162 licensed registered nurses in the

United States.) Fellows represent association executives; university presidents, chancellors and

deans; state and federal political appointees; hospital chief executives and vice presidents for

nursing; nurse consultants; and researchers and entrepreneurs.

Invitation to fellowship is more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing

profession. Academy fellows also have a responsibility to contribute their time and energies to the

Academy, and to engage with other health care leaders outside the Academy in transforming

America's health care system by

Enhancing the quality of health and nursing care;

Promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum;

Reducing health disparities and inequalities;

Shaping healthy behaviors and environments;

Integrating mental and physical health care; and

Strengthening the nursing and health care delivery system, nationally, and internationally.