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BOCA RATON, FL (December 15, 2006) - Rozzano C. Locsin, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor of nursing at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, has earned one of the highest honors in the nursing profession – election to fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing. Locsin was formally inducted as a 2006 new Fellow in November with 54 other nursing leaders from around the country during the Academy’s annual awards ceremony and induction banquet in Miami, FL.
“I am very honored to be selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing,” said Locsin. “It is an affirmation of my contributions to nursing, and a recognition of the expectation, value and demands of international nursing and global health.”
Locsin was nominated by two current Academy Fellows and was selected by the Academy’s fifteen-member Fellow Selection Committee for outstanding achievements in the nursing profession.
“Dr. Locsin is truly deserving of this special honor,” said Dr. Anne Boykin, dean of FAU’s College of Nursing. “He is passionate about nursing and has devoted his life to advancing knowledge of nursing.”
Locsin serves as visiting professor and consultant for several universities worldwide. He has collaborated on scholarly and creative projects with colleagues and students of nursing in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Uganda and the Philippines. Locsin is renowned for his global work on international nursing education, public and global health, and international development. As a Fulbright Scholar to Uganda in 2000, he facilitated the development of the baccalaureate and masters in Nursing Science curricula at Mbarara University of Science and Technology while working on international initiatives such as students and faculty exchange programs, and the school-based nursing center.
In 2004, Locsin received the Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award for the Community-Based University Nursing Education program. He has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of public/global health and international development since 2005.
Locsin’s many honors and awards include three lifetime achievement awards in nursing education from Silliman University, University of the Philippines and St. Paul University Philippines. In 2003, he received the Edith Moore Copeland Excellence in Creativity Award from the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Locsin was named the Florida Atlantic University Researcher of the Year in 2006, the first recipient from the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.
Locsin has published nationally and internationally on topics about technology and caring and nursing. He has pursued projects and programs on holistic nursing, alternative and complimentary therapies, and arts and aesthetics in nursing and health promotion. Locsin’s research and scholarly endeavors recognize patients as participants in their care rather than as objects of care. He edited the book Advancing Technology, Caring, and Nursing, released in 2001. Locsin’s book Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice, published in 2005, presents his middle range theory of nursing. He co-edited Technology and Nursing Practice, scheduled for release in 2007.
Originally from the Philippines, Locsin received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Silliman University and his PhD in nursing from the University of the Philippines in Manila.
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