Katie Boston-Leary
Nurse Leader and Executive
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Katie Boston-Leary received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. Upon graduation, she began her career in a stepdown neonatal intensive care unit at D.C. General Hospital and also practiced in perioperative nursing. In 2010, she received a dual degree with a Masters in Business Administration and Health Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus. Most recently, Dr. Boston-Leary received her Ph.D. in Health Services from Walden University in 2019. She is currently the Director of Nursing Programs at the American Nurses Association overseeing the Nursing Practice and Work Environment Division and Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation. She is also the Co-Lead for Project Firstline, a multi-million-dollar grant collaborative with the CDC for training on Infection Prevention and Control. She is also Adjunct Faculty and an Advisory Board Member with the Nurse Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. As a Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Executive, Katie has led organizations to obtain numerous accolades for quality and safety including an ANCC Pathway to Excellence designation and to win the coveted annual ANCC Pathway to Excellence award in 2017.
She also has strong partnerships with deans and chairs of nursing programs in the communities she has worked in to improve nursing curriculums and effectively preparing nurses to transition from novice to experts and has developed many nurse leaders from charge nurses to executives. She was a featured guest at the Inaugural SEHA nursing conference in Abu Dhabi which was a hospital system seeking ANCC Pathway Designation. She has also been invited to Capitol Hill in Washington DC with the American Nurses Association to discuss the havoc of regulatory burden on hospitals. She was recently identified in the August 2019 Health Leaders Journal as “One of Five Chief Nursing Officers Changing Healthcare”.
Her most recent research was a qualitative study on nurses’ perceptions of power dynamics in the hospital setting. She is a well-known speaker nationally and internationally with many publications and podcast guest invitations. She is a board-certified Nurse Executive and obtained a nurse executive leadership certificate from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been interviewed for stories in numerous print, online and televised media outlets namely CNBC, Cheddar TV, HR Maximizer and Bloomberg News. She recently co-authored an article titled, The US COVID‐19 Crisis: Facts, Science and Solidarity, which was published in the International Nursing Review (INR), the official journal of the International Council of Nurses (ICN).
Dr. Boston-Leary’s contributions to nursing challenges the status quo of nursing leadership and continues to forge new pathways and opportunities for nurses who follow.
View Dr. Boston-Leary’s Nurses You Should Know video here. Learn about her work via her American Nurses Association profile or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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