Inside Binghamton University Ervin named national academy fellow Naomi E. Ervin, who holds the Decker Chair in Community Health Nursing at the Decker School of Nursing, was one of 65 new fellows inducted into the American Academy of Nursing for 1999. The induction ceremony and banquet on November 20 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Virginia was attended by 600. The American Academy of Nursing was established in 1973 to provide visionary leadership to the nursing profession and the public in shaping future health care policy and practice. The academy is an organization of 1,300 distinguished leaders in nursing who have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the profession of nursing and to health care.
Fellows are nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research.
Ervin's contributions to nursing have spanned 35 years as a public health nurse, administrator, educator and researcher. She contributed to the development of the role of the clinical specialist in community health nursing and has worked to develop and evaluate effective methods for delivering nursing care in the community. Her work has been published in several professional journals. Currently she is involved in work with community and nursing organizations to improve services to elderly and ill patients living at home.