Paula Milone-Nuzzo honored by national academy
for her contributions to home care nursing

Paula Milone-Nuzzo, associate professor at the School of Nursing, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Fellowship in the academy is a honor that recognizes outstanding contributions to the nursing profession through publication, research, professional activities and community service.

Milone-Nuzzo has made a major impact on the shape of home care nursing on the state, national and international levels. She brings global perspectives in policy, management, education and research to this model of patient care. Milone-Nuzzo is currently working with Chinese colleagues, through the Yale-China Association, to address the home health care needs of the world's most populous country. Locally, Milone-Nuzzo created a model for graduate nursing students, who, under the guidance of faculty advisors, offer in-depth consultation services to community-based health care agencies undergoing organizational change.

Milone-Nuzzo is chair of the master's program at the School of Nursing, where she launched the first master's level, specialty-based home-care concentration.

Milone-Nuzzo is author of the widely used "Manual of Home Care Nursing Orientation," which synthesizes the information on regulation and professional nursing practice needed for orientation to home-care nursing. Her population-based research has highlighted the need for information management, ethical decision making and systems analysis in the field.

"Dr. Milone-Nuzzo's work demonstrates that great circle in which clinical practice informs research, which, in turn, reforms practice," says Nursing School Dean Catherine Gilliss, who is also a fellow of the academy.