Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
School of Nursing dean selected as TNA Nurse of the Year
Alexia Green, Ph.D., dean and professor in the School of Nursing at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been selected Nurse of the Year by the Texas Nurses Association. The award recognizes a Texas nurse who has contributed significantly to the nursing profession.
Green was honored during a special recognition and awards luncheon
held during TNA’s 5 th Annual Nursing Leadership Conference in
September in Austin. Poldi Tschirch, Ph.D., TNA vice president and chair
of the TNA Awards Committee, presented the award.
Commenting on Green’s achievement, Tschirch notes that she is “a woman of principle and a voice for collaboration. Her entire career has focused on teaching and nursing practice, particularly in the areas of adult health, critical care and public policy.”
“Dr. Green is a valuable asset to the nursing profession,” says M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., president of the Health Sciences Center, noting Green’s student-focused leadership in the School of Nursing as well her leadership and advocacy in Texas and nationwide.
Green served as TNA president from 1999-2001, helping to bring statewide focus to the depth, complexity and future ramifications of a then-newly identified nursing shortage. Her work in health policy has always been consistent, especially around the work force/nursing shortage. Currently she co-chairs the Nursing Workforce Data Advisory Committee, established in 2004 to help provide policy recommendations that assure an adequate nursing work force for Texas.
She is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow Class of 2001, founding member of the Texas Nursing Education Policy Coalition, Texas Nursing Legislative Agency Policy Coalition, and the Texas Patient Safety Alliance.
Her leadership in a community coalition resulted in a $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to address the nursing shortage in West Texas. In addition, she has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer of Sigma Theta Tau International, a Great 100 Nursing Alumni of Texas Woman’s University, and Teacher of the Year from the Texas Nursing Students’ Association.
- Julie Toland