Karen Daley is an American nurse, former president of the American Nurses Association, former director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center and an advocate for the prevention of needle injury in health care.
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Daley was born and raised in Massachusetts. He worked as an emergency room nurse for years until a needle injury was injured at work in 1998. Daley took blood from a patient and when he threw the needle into a sharps container, he was stuck with another needle pinched inside the container. A few months later, Daley tested positive for HIV and hepatitis C.
Daley encouraged the passage of the bill in the state legislature of Massachusetts that requires hospitals to report injection needles to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. For Daley's work on syringe injury prevention, he was appointed Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2006. Daley has served as director of the American Nurse Credential Center and as president of the Massachusetts Registered Nurse Association (MARN) and Massachusetts Center. for Nursing.
In 2010 and 2012, he was elected to a two-year tenure as president of the American Nurse Association, where he previously served on the board of directors. He is on the supervisory board for the American Nurses Foundation. In 2013, it is named as Modern Health Top 25 Women in Health Care 2013.
Daley holds a nursing degree from Catherine Laboure School of Nursing and a degree from Curry College. He holds a master's degree from Boston College and Boston University School of Public Health and a doctorate from Boston College.
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