AONL Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree

Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, CNO at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, will receive AONL’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in May at this year’s annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. A leader within AONL since 2013, Pappas served on the AONL Board of Directors and currently serves as AONL’s representative to the Commission on Magnet Recognition, which she also chairs. She recently chaired the AONL Workforce Subcommittee on Leadership. Pappas also served on a National Academies committee on clinician well-being, which issued a report used nationally to measure burnout and improve working conditions for nurses and others. Each year, the award honors an AONL member who served AONL in an important leadership capacity and is recognized as a significant leader within the nursing profession. (AONL news release, 3/23/23)