ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – April 8, 2021 – The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently selected Mary Beth Happ, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, as its 2021 Distinguished Research Lecturer.
AACN established the award in 1982 to honor nurses who make significant contributions to acute and critical care research. The annual award recognizes research that changes or improves patient outcomes, and advances nursing education and practice.
With more than 22 years of external funding support, Happ has built a program of interdisciplinary, practice-based research focused on improving care and communication with communication-impaired patients, their families and clinicians during critical illness and at the end of life, particularly with patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
