Ramón Lavandero, RN, MA, MSN, FAAN

Ramón Lavandero, RN, MA, MSN, FAAN, is senior director of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and clinical associate professor at Yale School of Nursing. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has held clinical, management, and faculty positions at medical centers and academic institutions in the Northeast and Midwest United States. As founding director of the International Leadership Institute at the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, he has consulted on nursing and health care in the Caribbean, Europe, and North and South America. Lavandero has served AACN in volunteer and staff leadership roles since the 1980s, including the team that developed AACN's Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments.