Outstanding Professor - Carol Huston
Carol Jorgensen Huston received her BSN degree from University of Iowa in 1977, her MSN from California State University, Chico in 1982, and her MPA and DPA from University of Southern California in 1997. Dr. Huston has been a professor of nursing at California State University, Chico since 1982. She teaches leadership, management, professional issues, and health systems to undergraduate and graduate students. She also is advisor for the CSU, Chico RN-BSN program. Dr. Huston was named one of seven master teachers in 1999/2001 as well as the CSU, Chico Outstanding Teacher in 2001/2002. Dr. Huston also taught part time in the MSNE and MSN/Family Nurse Practitioner program at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, CA from 1998 to 2006, teaching health finance, health systems, and outcomes measurement.
Dr. Huston is the co-author of four textbooks on leadership, management, and professional issues in nursing (a total of 12 editions) and has published over 80 articles in leading professional journals. Her co-authored book “Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing” has been translated into four languages and “Management Decision Making for Nurses” was an AJN book of the year. She is also the co-developer of the Marquis-Huston Model for Teaching Critical Thinking, which has been recognized internationally by nurse scholars.
Dr. Huston is also a successful grant writer and served as a co-investigator of a $1 million dollar HRSA grant from 1999-2004. In addition, she serves on the editorial board for Journal of Nursing Scholarship and as a manuscript reviewer for multiple journals. In November 2007, she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. Her research interests include critical thinking, mentoring, outcomes measurement, quality health care, and empowerment of the nursing profession.
Dr. Huston currently serves as the president of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). Since being inducted into the Gamma chapter of STTI in 1977, Huston has actively served at the chapter, regional and international levels. Specifically, she has held multiple offices in her local chapter, Kappa Omicron Chapter (#253) since helping to found the chapter in 1988; served as the Region 1 coordinator for the 1999-2001 biennium; and was a member the STTI Board of Directors from 2001-2005. She was elected in 2005 to serve two years as president-elect (2005-2007) and two years as president (2007-2009). As president, she is responsible for strategic planning, program implementation, and fiduciary oversight of approximately 130,000 nurses in 470+ chapters, in more than 90 countries.