Mary Jean Schumann

Dr. Schumann’s areas of expertise include health policy and quality, and health finance and economics. She has taught these subjects for more than a dozen years to doctoral, masters and undergraduate nursing and health policy students. She has wide expertise in health care credentialing and policy, including for APRNs. As PI for a HRSA multi-year grant to successfully create and support the transition of veterans to BSNs, the team and she co-authored multiple articles regarding the results: to date that program continues, having graduated more than 250 Veterans as BNS prepared Nurses. Passionate about the care of children and families, she has remained certified as a PNP for forty years and co-authored a White Paper funded by an ARHQ grant, entitled “Nurses’ Roles Fostering Patient and Family Engagement in Health Care”. Her published works include shared authorship in Specialization and Credentialing in Nursing: Revisited, as the managing editor and co-author of Journey into Life, and authorship for chapters in Policy and Politics on Nursing in Health Care, Health Care Policy and Advanced Practice Nursing, and multiple editions of Quality and Safety Education in Nursing.