Susan Dean Baar

Nursing workforce and professional practice environments are the focus of Dr. Dean-Baar’s scholarship. She has been a leader in the development and implementation of nursing standards and guidelines for practice. She has served as chair of many national task forces and committees working on the definition, framework, and development of national standards and guidelines for practice. She has also worked as a consultant to healthcare organizations. Currently, she serves as an appraiser for the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program.

Dr. Dean-Baar has been actively involved in the field of rehabilitation nursing for more than thirty years. She is a past president of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and has served as a chairperson of the Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation Board of Trustees and as an editor of Rehabilitation Nursing. She has provided testimony to federal agencies on rehabilitation nursing research, education, and practice, and has provided curriculum consultation to various agencies, including the Vietnam Ministry of Health as part of a Health Volunteers Overseas program funded by USAID.

In October of 2011, she received the Sigma Theta Tau International Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award for Excellence in Fostering Professional Standards and the Lucie S. Kelly Mentor award.