Jacqueline M. Loversidge, PhD, RNC-AWHC, ANEF, is an Associate Professor Emeritus, Clinical Nursing, at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Loversidge earned a diploma from Muhlenberg Hospital School of Nursing;a BSN from Ohio University; a master's degree with a major in nursing from Wright State University; and a PhD in Higher Education Policy and Leadership from The Ohio State University. She holds national certification as an Ambulatory Women's Health Care Nurse through the National Certification Corporation.Loversidge educated undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of health policy and regulation, evidence-based practice, and leadership in nurs- ing and healthcare for almost 20 years. She has extensive experience in the regulatory setting, having held two positions at the Ohio Board of Nursing (OBN). The first was as the Associate Executive Director and included the role of government liaison. In that position, she had a significant role in drafting and passing a major revision to the Ohio Nurse Practice Act; once that law passed, she also had a role in drafting the regulations needed to enforce that law. After a decade in practice and administrative settings, she served the OBN again as its Education Consultant, with responsibility for oversight of all Ohio prelicensure nursing education programs. While at OBN, she served on National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) committees, includ- ing the Committee on Special Projects, responsible for transformation of thepaper-and-pencil NCLEX licensure examination to a computer adaptive mode. She was awarded Fellowship in the National League for Nursing (NLN) Acad- emy of Nursing Education based on her contributions to public health policy in nursing regulation and nursing education, and she currently serves on the National League for Nursing Public Policy Committee.Loversidge has authored numerous textbook chapters on regulation, health policy, and advocacy. She is the author of the evidence-informed health policy model that forms the basis of the model used in this book. Her scholarship interests focus on health policy; advances in health professions education; and practice models that focus on improvements in quality, safety, and top-of- license practice.
