Moss Earns Two AJN Book of the Year Awards
Published January 3, 2017 This content is archived.
Margaret Moss, assistant dean of diversity and inclusion in the UB School of Nursing, was honored with two Book of the Year Awards for 2016 by the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Moss’ book, “American Indian Health and Nursing,” was recognized in the Community/Public Health/Home Health and Professional Issues categories.
The book is the nation’s first nursing textbook on health care needs of the United States’ 5 million American Indians – Moss’ career advocating for diversity in academia and health care delivery served as a catalyst for tailoring the text to perhaps the least understood minority population in the U.S. In the book, she describes how disparities in health care policy, along with environmental and historical factors affecting the fabric of American Indian society, are responsible for the group’s lack of well-being. The content covers the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional domains of health.
Moss is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota and one of only a few American Indian nurses with a doctorate in nursing. She is also an attorney, having earned a JD from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Moss, M. (2015). American Indian health and nursing. New York, NY: Springer.
