Biography

As Associate Chief Nursing Officer of the Office of Research and Innovation, Dr. Albert administers and provides research and innovation services throughout Cleveland Clinic, a multicenter system. She conducts her own program of research and mentors nurses in research and evidence-based practice. Her heart failure programs of research have two themes: (1) understanding bio-behavioral issues that impact self-care adherence and clinical outcomes and (2) improving conformity to recommended care advocated in national guidelines. Nancy is also an external consultant and educator to nurses and healthcare teams wishing to promote evidence-based nursing practices, nursing research and innovative thinking. Dr. Albert also serves as a clinical nurse specialist in advanced heart failure within an ambulatory advanced heart failure clinic on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH. She is a clinical educator and consultant to graduate students and hospital and ambulatory nurses regarding heart failure, cardiac or intensive care topics. She is widely published with over 275 peer-reviewed publications in medical and nursing journals, over 15 book chapters and she is editor of a 2016 book titled: Building and Sustaining a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Program. Dr. Albert presents regionally, nationally and internationally and is actively involved on steering committees, work groups and task forces of many healthcare organizations that are focused on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes of patients with heart failure or cardiovascular diseases. Dr Albert is a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Clinical Work Group the Guideline Advantage steering committee and chair of the American College of Cardiology Patient Navigator Program, to name a few. Nancy was named the Distinguished Research Lecturer by the American Association of Critical-care Nurses in May 2013; she received the Cleveland Clinic Nursing Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in September 2014, was named the AHA Healthcare Volunteer of the Year in June 2015 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in October 2015.

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