Dr. Tina DeLapp Inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
WIN Emerita, Dr. Tina Delapp, was recently inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Established in 2008, AWHOF celebrates and honors Alaska women who have shaped Alaska's communities and influenced the direction of the state. Dr. DeLapp was recognized for her significant achievements and contributions to healthcare education. Watch the induction ceremony HERE.
From the 2024 Program:
Tina DeLapp always wanted to be a nurse. She earned a nursing diploma and undergraduate and graduate degrees plus a doctorate in higher education. Clinical nursing roles included staff positions in Arizona and Alaska, including a year training Alaska Native health aides.
DeLapp’s most significant impact as a nurse educator occurred at UAA, where she spearheaded the doubling of UAA nursing enrollments and the delivery of nursing education to community campuses across Alaska and established Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives in Nursing (RRANN) to ensure an Alaska nursing workforce qualified to meet the health needs of all Alaskans.
Professionally active regionally and nationally, she served on the Alaska Board of Nursing, as a nursing program accreditation evaluator, a consultant to nursing enrollment and expansion grant projects in the Southwest U.S., an abstract and grant proposal reviewer for regional and international nursing societies, and participated in creating the Clinical Nurse Leader Role by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Honored as the first Alaska inducted into the American Academy of Nursing, she received Emeritus Status from AACN, the Western Institute of Nursing and UAA.
After retiring from UAA in 2004, she joined the Anchorage League of Women Voters Board, becoming an enthusiastic Voter Registrar at naturalization ceremonies and in high school government classes. DeLapp continues to be professionally active, staying involved in professional nursing organizations and spearheading the creation of the UAA Nursing Endowed Scholarship. She regularly reviews health-related books, abstracts, and grant proposals. Her most recent publication, a chapter in a Transcultural Nursing text, will appear later in 2024!
Still committed to her initial career as a practicing nurse, in 2021 she was thrilled to administer vaccinations to control the COVID pandemic. Interviewed about her vaccination activities, DeLapp replied, “Being a nurse is who I am.”