Betsey Lewis Snow Named Director of Workplace Advocacy at ANA

Washington, DC -- Betsey Lewis Snow, MPH, RN, a nurse leader with more than 20 years' experience, has been named director of Workplace Advocacy (WPA) at the American Nurses Association, announced ANA Executive Director Linda Stierle, MSN, RN, CNAA.

Educated in the clinical specialty area of maternal child health, Lewis Snow has served in a variety of progressively responsible roles, including staff nurse, public health nurse, nurse educator and nurse administrator. Lewis Snow most recently was the executive director of Women's Health and Children's Services for the Valley Health System in Winchester, VA, where she directed services for two facilities. She is also a nursing instructor at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, VA.

Lewis Snow joins Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN, senior staff specialist, Workplace Advocacy, in developing and advancing the Workplace Advocacy Program within ANA as a strategy for addressing nurses' workplace rights and improving the nursing work environment. The goal of the program is to ensure that individual nurses have access to effective workplace advocacy – including resources, guidance and tangible tools to address workplace issues – through ANA and the state nurses associations.

In announcing her hiring, Stierle said, "Betsey has demonstrated strong leadership and a keen insight into the challenges and opportunities nurses face within the health-care work environment. We are fortunate to have such an accomplished nurse leader directing the association's workplace advocacy efforts."

Lewis Snow earned a master's degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, in 1979 and a bachelor's degree in nursing at Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, NC, in 1976.

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