SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has named Betty Rambur, a professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing, winner of the 2024 Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award.
The award is meant to recognize “an outstanding nursing leader who has made significant impact in transforming policy to improve the health of the nation.” Rambur, who is the college’s Routhier chair for practice and its former interim dean, is known as a national leader in health care policy and reform. Her work has focused on health care payment reform, ethics and redesigning the workforce within alternative payment models.
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“Dr. Rambur has been a longtime champion of nursing who currently serves as an expert on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council, and as a State Grassroots Liaison,” according to the award announcement. “Her leadership continues to be an inspiration for the next generation of nurses.”
Rambur will receive the award at AACN’s 2024 Academic Nursing Leadership Conference, which will be held from Oct. 14-16 in Washington, D.C.
Her book, “Health Care Finance, Economics, and Policy for Nurses,” offers guidance to help nurses’ effectiveness and contributions to organizations in quick transition in response to evolving financial and reimbursement incentives.
“I am truly honored to receive this prestigious award and special recognition from my colleagues,” Rambur said. “It is personally meaningful because it celebrates my life’s work –work that I am passionate about and love to do. My commitment to translating complex policy and payment issues to nurses and others is rooted in my belief that these are not only critical economic imperatives, but also represent core ethical principles that drive the quality and accessibility of health care. Our system, ostensibly intended to promote health and healing, is increasingly beleaguered and unaffordable, burdening families and businesses alike. Who other than nurses fluent in the language of policy can develop and lead actionable strategies to shape a robust, sustainable system?”
Rambur has also been recognized by nursing honor society Sigma Theta Tau International with the Sloan Consortium Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Award, as well as the State Award for Nurse Practitioner Advocacy from the American Academy for Nurse Practitioners. She is a trustee of South County Health, a member of Rhode Island’s Cost Trends Steering Committee and Long Term Health Plan Committee, and is on the Med PAC and AACN advisory counsel. Rambur is also on the editorial advisory board for the peer-reviewed journal, “Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice.”
Katie Castellani is a PBN staff writer. You may contact her at Castellani@PBN.com.
