Blakeney, Barbara

Official Record

• Years in Current Position 1

Personal Information

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Education & Career

• Education
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Previous Employment
  • President of the American Nurses' Association. Barbara is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Pearl McIvor Public Health Nursing Award from the American Nurses’ Association, the Chief Nurse Award of the US Public Health Service. Barbara has served on the National Advisory Board for the Joint Commission and as a member of the advisory group for the first nursing sensitive quality indicators for the National Quality Forum. Barbara is a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow of the National Academies of Practice. Barbara has served on many boards of directors including as a founding member and current Vice-Chair of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Health Care Without Harm, Practice Green Health, and the Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTS). Barbara served as an Innovation Advisor to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center. In that capacity, she led highly successful projects to improve care, decrease delays in care, and improve efficiency at the clinical Microsystems level. She is a co-author of a first of its kind study of equine assisted learning and Nurse Presence.