Secretary

Matthew S. Howard, DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CPN, FAEN

Director of Scholarship and Leadership Resources, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma), and Adjunct Nursing Faculty at Northern Kentucky University

Evansville, Indiana

United States

Educational Biography

DNP – Northern Kentucky University - 2018

MSN in Nursing Education – University of Southern Indiana - 2007

BS in Radiographic and Imaging Studies– University of Southern Indiana - 2003

BSN – University of Southern Indiana - 2002

AAS – University of Kentucky - 1998

Professional Biography

Dr. Matthew S. Howard is currently the Director of Scholarship and Leadership Resources at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma). While also serving as adjunct nursing faculty at Northern Kentucky University, he works part-time as a staff nurse in his clinical specialty of emergency nursing at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville, in Evansville, IN. His nursing career has taken him from stretcher-side nursing to academia and back. His clinical background includes emergency, flight, and trauma nursing, and several leadership positions. Dr. Howard served as the Assistant Director and nursing faculty at a local college in Indianapolis, IN working with both RN and PN students. He has also served as the Manager of Trauma Services and Clinical Manager of Operations in the Emergency Department at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, IN.

Prior to these appointments, Dr. Howard served as a staff nurse in several Indiana and Kentucky emergency departments and as a flight nurse with two agencies. He began his nursing career as a basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in rural western Kentucky while attaining his nursing degree. He received his ASN from the University of Kentucky in 1998. He then moved to Evansville, IN where he received his BSN and BS in Radiological and Imaging Sciences with a minor in Public Health from the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Dr. Howard continued his education and received his MSN from USI in 2007 in Nursing Education and his DNP from NKU in 2018.

Dr. Howard currently serves on several local, national, and international councils and nursing associations including the American Nurses Association, the Emergency Nurses Association, the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing, the International Society of Professional Identity in Nursing, and Sigma.