Jacqueline Moss, Ph.D., assistant dean for Clinical Simulation and Technology and associate professor in the UAB School of Nursing, has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. AAN Fellows are recognized for their extraordinary nursing career as leaders in education, management, practice and research and serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis and dissemination of nursing knowledge.
Moss has a wide range of experience in adult critical care practice, nursing education and research. She has a particular interest in informatics and has been involved in multiple projects designed to implement new information and communication technologies for use in health-care practice and education. Her research focuses on the determination of information needs and use of decision support in acute-care clinical practice and the use of standardized terminologies in health outcomes management.
Additionally, Moss has worked to incorporate clinical simulation into nursing education. She is a two-time recipient of the Harriet H. Werley Award for nursing informatics research from the American Medical Informatics Association.