Ann Burgess, a professor at Boston College’s Connell School of Nursing and a pioneer in forensic nursing, received a Lifetime Legacy Award from the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), recognizing her research on victims of trauma.
“It was the highest organization of nursing I belonged to, the academy—that’s the pinnacle of nursing,” she said. “To get an award like that, which is one of their highest awards, was very sobering. I felt very honored to get that.”
Burgess accepted the award at the AAN’s Health Policy Conference, held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month…