THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING DESIGNATES COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA AS A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE AND INDUCTS FACULTY MEMBER AS NEW PRESIDENT

The first event will take place at 9 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the College’s Great Hall (Room S2-19) in the Student Life Building on 17th Street, between Spring Garden and Callowhill streets.

The second event, a luncheon, will be held at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Independence Blue Cross, 1901 Market Street. Joseph A. Frick, president and chief executive officer of Independence Blue Cross, will provide welcoming remarks.

M. Elaine Tagliareni, Ed.D., R.N., was inducted as the National League for Nursing’s president in September, the same month that the College was designated a Center of Excellence.

Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing (NLN) is the accrediting body for nursing programs across the country and the premier organization for nursing faculty and leaders in nursing education. It offers faculty development, networking opportunities, testing and assessment, nursing research grants and public policy initiatives to its 24,000 individual and 1,100 institutional members.

The Center of Excellence program is a three-year designation that recognizes schools of nursing that have achieved a level of excellence in a designated area; demonstrated sustained, evidence-based and substantive innovation in that area; and showed a proven commitment to continuous quality improvement. This is the second time that the College has received a Center of Excellence designation.

“We know how proud you must be of the Department of Nursing, and we thank you for your support of their efforts to continually strive for excellence in nursing education,” said L. Antoinette Bargagliotti, the National League for Nursing’s former president, and Beverly Malone, the NLN’s chief executive officer, in a letter to Community College of Philadelphia President Stephen M. Curtis. They added that the award was given to the College because of its sustained efforts to “create environments that enhance student learning and professional development.”

Dr. Tagliareni, professor and Independence Foundation chair at Community College of Philadelphia, is the first community college educator to be inducted as the president of the National League for Nursing. From her wide ranging participation and leadership on the NLN’s Board of Directors to her role on the NLN’s advisory councils and committees, she has played a key role in fostering innovation and promoting the nurse educator role as advanced practice.

Founded in 1893 as the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nursing, the NLN was the first nursing organization in the United States. NLN members include nurse educators, education agencies, health care agencies and interested members of the public.