William Rosa Editor

William Rosa, MS, RN, LMT, AHN-BC, AGPCNP-BC, CCRN-CMC, is currently the ICU Clinical Mentor at Rwanda Military Hospital, Human Resources for Health Program, Kigali, Rwanda. He was formerly a practitioner/educator in the Critical Care Center at NYU Langone Medical Centers from 2009-2015, where he achieved certifications in Critical Care, Adult Cardiac Medicine Nursing, Advanced Holistic Nursing, and as an Adult-Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. He is a graduate of both Watson Caring Science Institute's Caritas Coach Education Program and the International Nurse Coach Association's Integrative Nurse Coach Certification Program. Mr. Rosa is the recipient of several honors and scholarships, including The Greater New York Association of Healthcare Recruiters' 2012 MSN Scholarship Award, the winner of the 2012 NLN Student Excellence Paper Competition (NLN Educator Summit), and The NYU College of Nursing Alumni Association's Rising Star Award (2012). More recently, he was selected to receive the 2014 Nurse.com NY/NJ Region Rising Star GEM Award from Gannett Healthcare Group, the Dean's Prize for Outstanding Student Award from Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, the 2015 AACN Circle of Excellence Award, the 2015 ANPD Change Agent Award, and was a finalist for The New York Times 2014 Team Award. Mr. Rosa's ideas on Compassion Fatigue and reintegrating Human Caring Science into Advanced Practice Nursing have been presented and/or accepted at several national and international conferences in Jordan, Prague, Hong Kong, Japan, Armenia, and throughout the United States. He has contributed over twenty publications related to human caring and the moral/ethical foundation of nursing in refereed and non-refereed journals and currently writes a weekly wellness and wellbeing column in The New Times: Rwanda's Leading Daily.