Elizabeth Speakman
Elizabeth Speakman
Professor
Chief Executive Nurse
Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, FNAP, ANEF, FAAN, was appointed as Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Nursing at University of Delaware on August 1, 2020. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Speakman was the Associate Provost for Interprofessional and Tele-health Education and Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Dr. Speakman also held faculty and administrative appointments at Thomas Jefferson University, as Professor in the Jefferson College of Nursing and Co-Director of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education Center, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Dean of the RN-BSN program in the Jefferson College of Nursing. Dr. Speakman is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education, Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow.
Dr. Speakman work has been widely recognized both nationally and internationally. She authored two books Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care in Nursing Education (recipient of AJN 2nd place Book-of-the- Year Award), and Body Fluids and Electrolytes: and has been a contributing author in numerous books most notably Billings & Halstead- Teaching in Nursing, Gaberson, Oermann & Shellenbarger Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing, Adams & Valiga Achieving Excellence in Nursing Education and Institute of Medicine Interprofessional education for collaboration: Learning how to improve health from interprofessional models across the continuum of education to practice.
Dr. Speakman has been a nurse for 42 years and a nurse educator for 36 years and serves as a curriculum expert and consultant with over 150 presentations. Dr. Speakman was recently Chair of the Nursing Academy of the National Academies of Practice and served two three-year terms as a Board of Governor for the National League for Nursing. Dr. Speakman was the Principle Investigator on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Careers in Nursing grant, received $430,000 funding for scholarships and in 2014, Dr. Speakman was awarded the Louise McManus Medal for Distinguish Service to Nursing Education and inducted into Columbia University Nursing Hall of Fame for her Extraordinary Contribution to Nursing and Health Care. Dr. Speakman received a BS in Nursing from Wagner College, New York and her Master Degree and Doctorate in Nursing from Columbia University and a Certificate in Healthcare Education from the Harvard-Macy Institute at Harvard University.