Kingston Receives AONL Lifetime Achievement Award

AONL this week named Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, as the 2024 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. The prestigious award honors an AONL member recognized by the nursing community as a significant leader in the profession who has served AONL in an important leadership capacity. Kingston, the executive vice president and CNO at Advocate Health, Charlotte, N.C., spearheaded a shared governance structure that supports collaboration and enables a flexible nursing workforce and multidisciplinary approach to sharing resources and staff across the health system. A former president of the AONL Board of Directors, she also served on the American Hospital Board of Trustees, where she chaired the Hospitals Against Violence advisory group. AONL will honor Kingston on April 9, 2024 at its annual conference in New Orleans. (AONL news release, 12/14/23)