About our author
Anita Finkelman, MSN, RN, is an author, nurse educator and consultant providing services in the United States and Israel. She has served as visiting lecturer for the Faculties of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, and as visiting faculty at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Nursing at Northeastern University and chaired the School of Nursing Accreditation Task Force. Previously, she served as assistant professor of nursing at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, where she taught online undergraduate and graduate nursing research courses and was course coordinator for undergraduate nursing research. She was awarded a Veterans Affairs Nursing Academy program grant to develop an undergraduate long-term experience at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City that included a summer internship and a postgraduate nurse residency program. At the University of Cincinnati, she was an associate professor, clinical nursing and director of the undergraduate program.
Finkelman earned her BSN from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, and her master's degree in psychiatric mental health nursing/clinical nurse specialist from Yale University. She completed postmaster's graduate work in healthcare policy and administration at George Washington University. In addition, she also completed health policy work as a fellow of the Health Policy Institute, George Mason University. She has over 40 years of nursing experience, including clinical, educational and administrative positions. Her considerable experience developing distance learning programs includes curriculum review and revision as well as development of other online products related to simulation learning and distance education for publishers and healthcare organizations.
Anita Finkelman was director of staff education for two acute care hospitals and director of a large continuing education program at the University of Cincinnati. Consulting projects have focused on distance education, curriculum, teaching practices, nursing education accreditation, healthcare interprofessional education, health policy, healthcare administration and faculty mentorship. She has authored many books, chapters and journal articles, and served on editorial boards. She has lectured on administration, healthcare education, health policy, continuing education and psychiatric/mental health nursing, both nationally and internationally, particularly in the nursing program for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
In addition to this text, her other recent books are the Cognella Series on Public and Community Health Nursing, a collection of ten concise, informative guides that explore critical topical areas, their nursing applications and their relationship to nursing practice (2022–2024); one of the books in the series, Health Equity and Disparities, was awarded third place in the 2022 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards in the History and Public Policy category; Professional Nursing Concepts, 5th Edition (2021); Quality Improvement: A Guide for Integration in Nursing, 2nd Edition (2020); Teaching IOM/HMD: Implications of the Institute of Medicine and Health & Medicine Division Reports for Nursing Education, Volumes I and II, 4th Edition (2017); and Case Management for Nurses (2011). Teaching IOM/HMD and Professional Nursing Concepts have won publishing awards. She has presented workshops across the country and internationally for nurse educators and staff educators and presented at major healthcare conferences.
