Submitted by Kerry Capell
LAKE WORTH, FL. Palm Beach State College’s Associate Dean of Nursing Carol A. Clarke EDD, DNP, MSN, RN has been re-elected to serve a two-year term on the Nursing Consortium of Florida’s Board of Directors.
The Nursing Consortium of Florida is a non-profit founded to serve the professional needs of Florida’s nursing community. Member organizations include hospitals, accredited schools of nursing, nurse staffing agencies, and other providers of nursing services. The Consortium’s goal is to foster and strengthen relationships between nurses in practice and academic settings and promote and facilitate collaboration among member organizations to strengthen the nursing profession and ensure adequate access to high-quality nursing services throughout Florida.
“In my current role, it is imperative that I embrace networking, as I extend myself not only to members of this community, but to the community of nursing,” Clarke said. “As a part of the new initiative to Keep Nursing Alive, it is also my desire to ensure nursing’s success on all levels, hence my interest in serving on the Consortium Board.”
Previously, Clarke was Interim Associate Dean, Nursing: PCA, LPN, RN, BSN Programs/Adjunct Nursing Faculty at Palm Beach State College. She is responsible for the management and maintenance of all aspects of nursing at PBSC. As part of her remit, Clarke is committed to maintaining and improving the quality of each nursing program and ensuring the programs are in compliance with accrediting bodies and the Florida Board of Nursing regulations. Additionally, Clarke works in close collaboration with the broader PBSC community, providing daily and weekly nursing updates to the College’s Dean of Health Sciences and other PBSC governing bodies and departments, while maintaining and adhering to budgetary guidelines.
Clarke’s leadership role at PBSC has emphasized the importance of partnerships. “On working through the present and past pandemics, I have realized the importance of broad collaboration among nurse leaders, and I recognize that fostering collaboration between nurse leaders in practice and academia is at the core of the Consortium’s mission,” she said. “My motivation for serving on the Consortium board, is to contribute to the good work underway in service to the profession and the broader community through committee leadership and close collaboration with my peers.”
