AONL to honor nursing leader for lifetime achievement

The American Organization for Nursing Leadership on March 19 will present its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Ann Marie T. Brooks, president of the Mount Carmel College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. Brooks has more than 40 years of experience as an educator, nurse executive, Magnet Recognition Program appraiser and health care consultant, serving as a nurse executive at Riddle Memorial Hospital, Main Line Health System, Media, Pa. and King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She also has served as president of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (now AONL) and American Psychiatric Nurses Association; chair of the Psychiatric and Mental Health Governing Board; and dean of The Catholic University School of Nursing; and received the AONL Mentor Award and Distinguished Alumni Award from the Catholic University of America, among other recognition.