WOCNext 2019

Joyce Black
Professor of Nursing
University of Nebraska Medical Center


Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN is the Florence Neidfelt Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the current President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, having previously served as President, Vice-President and Secretary. Dr. Black served as the co-chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure injury including medical device pressure injury. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, most recently the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work in rediscovering deep tissue pressure injury.

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