TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Education

Tennessee Nurse, Winter, 2007

Jennie Walls, MSN, RN, APRN, BC, of Johnson City, Tenn., is the 2007 recipient of the TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Education.

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Walls, an associate professor in the School Health Nursing Program at the East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, is also the director of the Washington County/ETSU School Based Health Centers, a program she initiated, that provides care to children and staff who might not receive adequate or expedient care otherwise.

Walls has served in many organizations at the local and regional level, including the Keystone Health Fairs throughout the Johnson City School System, as a CPR instructor for nurses and for the community, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Regional Commission for Health Advancement.

Walls, a member of TNA since 1972, is currently President of TNA District 5. She has served the association in many different roles including as a member of the Board of Directors, Continuing Education Committee, Council on Primary Care for Nurse Practitioners, School Health Committee, and the Task Force on Rx Writing Privileges Bill.

Walls holds a bachelor's of science in nursing degree from East Tennessee State University, 1972, and a master's of science degree as a Family Nurse Clinical Specialist from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis, 1976.