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Nursing Faculty Member Named a Top Ten American Business Woman Dr. Janice Unruh Davidson honored by American Business Women’s Association.  Dr. Janice Unruh Davidson Davidson, the current Woman of the Year for the Mississippi Council of ABWA, was previously selected as Woman of the Year for her local chapter of ABWA. She was selected from nearly 100 leading businesswomen nationwide for the “Forever Ten” distinction. The mission of ABWA is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition. Since 2006, Davidson has owned and operated a private consulting firm that specializes in health care research, informatics and statistical analysis as well as market segment research. In this capacity, she additionally serves as consultant and grant writer to a number of national organizations. Davidson earned her Ph.D. in nursing from Texas Woman’s University and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from Wichita State University. In addition, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship as a family nurse practitioner at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Davidson maintains national board certification as a nurse informaticist, nurse executive and family nurse practitioner. She has 30 years of nursing practice experience with 18 years of higher education experience—having earned tenure at all three institutions where she served during those years in nursing administrative roles—and 12 years of advanced practice experience. As a faculty member, she has been recognized with various awards including outstanding institutional service, national teaching excellence and outstanding scholarship. Davidson was named the first Nurse Researcher of the Year at the inaugural Mississippi Nurses Association Nightingale Awards Gala and was named as a fellow of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Executive Academic Leadership Program. She has received a number of recognitions from Sigma Theta Tau, including the International Newsletter Award for Layout and Design Excellence and the Pinnacle Award for Research Dissemination. Davidson is internationally recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP). Over the last decade, Dr. Davidson’s scholarship has been published by internationally recognized journals such as Nursing Administration Quarterly and the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She has been further cited in such journals as the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Professional Case Management and Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners. Davidson has also authored a textbook chapter for Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches with her work further cited in classroom textbooks such as Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach and Primary Care of the Child with a Chronic Condition. Davidson has directed nearly 60 doctoral dissertations and theses in addition to over 60 graduate evidence-based practice projects in nursing and currently serves as an international mentor through Sigma Theta Tau and FAANP.
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