Congratulations to Meredith Mealer, PhD for being named a recipient of the 2021 AACN Pioneering Spirit Award.
Feb 8, 2021This is one of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ (AACN) highest honors. Dr. Mealer was honored for her contributions to high acuity and critical care nursing, along with her sustained, pioneering work and collaboration on the body of research related to PTSD in nurses with particular focus on critical care. Dr. Mealer’s more recent focus on resilience, mindfulness and cognitive behavioral approaches to well-being were also acknowledged by the AACN as being “particularly crucial now.”